March 16

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[edit] Events

• 1190 - Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York; many Jews commit suicide rather than submit to baptism.
• 1322 - Battle of Boroughbridge in the First War of Scottish Independence.
• 1935 - Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription was reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.

[edit] Births

• 1751 - James Madison, President of the United States (d. 1836)
• 1890 - Solomon Mikhoels, Soviet actor and chairman of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (d. 1948)
• 1911 - Dr. Josef Mengele, German doctor (d. 1979)
• 1920 - Traudl Junge, Hitler's secretary (d. 2002)
• 1920 - Dorothea Binz, female SS guard (d. 1947)

[edit] Deaths

• 37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
• 2004 - Kriss Donald, Scottish murder victim (b. 1988)