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The solar eclipse of March 16, 1485
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1905Obs....28..186L
http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEsearch/SEsearchmap.php?Ecl=14850316



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The 1st Liquid Fuel Rocket was launched by Robert Goddard in 1926

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Goddard#First_liquid-fueled_flight

The V-2 rocket was first produced on the 16th March, 1942.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Testing

The 1st Titan 2 rocket was launched in 1962
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-25C_Titan_II

Gemini 8, with Neil Armstrong and David Scott, was launched in 1966 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_8

The 3rd Mercury flyby by Mariner 10 was in 1975
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariner_10#Third_Mercury_flyby



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Michael John "Bloomer" Bloomfield (born 16 March 1959) is a former American astronaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Bloomfield

Ronnie Walter Cunningham (born March 16, 1932), known as Walt Cunningham, is a retired American astronaut. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cunningham

Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (16 March 1927 - 24 April 1967) was a Soviet test pilot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Mikhaylovich_Komarov

Captain Lawrence Edward Grace ("Titus") Oates (17 March 1880 - 16 March 1912) was an English Antarctic explorer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Oates

Anna Atkins (Maiden name Anna Children) (16 March 1799 - 9 June 1871) was an English botanist and photographer. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Atkins

Frederick Reines (March 16, 1918 - August 26, 1998) was an American physicist. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Reines

Georg Simon Ohm (16 March 1789 - 6 July 1854) was a German physicist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Ohm

Heinrich Gustav Johannes Kayser (16 March 1853 - 14 October 1940) was a German physicist and spectroscopist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Kayser

John Broughton (born 1952) is an Australian amateur astronomer. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Broughton

DeLisle Stewart (March 16, 1870 - February 2, 1941) was an American astronomer 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLisle_Stewart

Caroline Lucretia Herschel (16 March 1750 - 9 January 1848) was a German-British astronomer
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t22424623/caroline-herschel/



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NGC 2395 was discovered by William Herschel on the 16th March 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57033037/ngc-2395/

NGC 2953 was discovered by John Herschel on the 16th March 1836. 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t60031993/ngc-2953/

NGC 3664 was discovered by Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel on the 16th March 1879.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57033032/ngc-3664/



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Supernovae 1895A (VW Virginis) was discovered by Maximilian Wolf on the 16 March 1895
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56840040/supernovae-1895a/

A Type II supernova, designated as SN 2012aw, was discovered in M95 on 16 March 2012.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t48325254/possible-supernova-in-m95/



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The Corona Australids meteor shower peaks around 16 March.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_Australis#Meteor_showers



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Meteorites

The Pulsora (H5) meteorite fell in Madhya Pradesh, India, on the 16th March, 1863.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t48293261/pulsora-meteorite/



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