{"id":19159,"date":"2020-03-16T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T06:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=19159"},"modified":"2020-03-14T16:56:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T11:26:53","slug":"history-of-16-march-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-16-march-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 16 March"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 16 March<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> &#8211; In France, ostrich meat was officially declared fit for human consumption.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> &#8211; Tonya Harding pled guilty in Portland,\u00a0OR, to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for covering up the attack on her skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. She was fined $100,000. She was also banned from amateur figure skating.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> &#8211; Russia agreed to phase out the production of weapons-grade plutonium.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1995<\/strong> &#8211; NASA astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to visit the Russian space station\u00a0<em>Mir<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998<\/strong> &#8211; Rwanda began mass trials for the 1994 genocide with 125,000 suspects for 500,000 murders.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; The 20 members of the European Union&#8217;s European Commission announced their resignations amid allegations of corruption and financial mismanagement.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A\u00a0bus falls\u00a0from an elevated highway in the Philippines capital\u00a0Manila\u00a0killing at least 18 people with 20 injured.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan\u00a0militants\u00a0attacked\u00a0an Army Public School in\u00a0Peshawar,\u00a0Pakistan, killing 145 people, mostly schoolchildren.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Krysten Ritter, American actress, musician, and model<\/li>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Gareth Williams, Scottish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Antrel Rolle, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Anna Sedokova, Ukrainian singer, actress and television presenter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Stanislav \u0160est\u00e1k, Slovak footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Kelenna Azubuike, American basketball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Frankie Ballard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Theo James, English actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Stanislav Manolev, Bulgarian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0James Nash, English race car driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Alcides Escobar, Venezuelan baseball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Zolt\u00e1n Kov\u00e1cs, Hungarian footballer (d. 2013)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0P\u00e4rt Uusberg, Estonian actor, composer, and conductor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mame Biram Diouf, Senegalese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Beau Dowler, Australian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Hallee Hirsh, American actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mats Hummels, German footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Anna Popplewell, English actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mirei Kiritani, Japanese model, actress, and journalist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Craig Goodwin, Australian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013 Ulrikke Eikeri, a Norwegian tennis player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Anamul Haque, Bangladeshi cricketer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Moe Miura, Japanese model, actress, and singer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Pietro Perdichizzi, Belgian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1992<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Tom Rogic, Australian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Elliot Lee, English footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Nicola Murru, Italian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Rodr\u00edguez Mart\u00ednez, Spanish footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1996\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Joel Adams, Australian pop\/soul singer-songwriter<sup>[6]<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>1997\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Zara Larsson, Swedish singer and songwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1998\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Mira Antonitsch, an Austrian tennis player<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 16 March 1993 &#8211; In France, ostrich meat was officially declared fit for human consumption. 1994 &#8211; Tonya Harding pled guilty in Portland,\u00a0OR, to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for covering up the attack on her skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. She was fined $100,000. She was also banned from amateur figure skating. 1994 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1089,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-19159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-16-march","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-4Z1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19162,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19159\/revisions\/19162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}