| March 16th 1930 | | USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a natl shrine
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| March 16th 1931 | | Genootschap Onze Taal (Our Language) organizes (Neth)
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| March 16th 1933 | | Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
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| March 16th 1934 | | Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
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| March 16th 1935 | | Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
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| March 16th 1937 | | All but one senior fouls out of a scrimmage game between seniors & sophomores, but he holds on to win the game 35-32
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| March 16th 1938 | | No‰l Coward's musical "Operette," premieres in London
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| March 16th 1938 | | Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT
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| March 16th 1939 | | Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
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| March 16th 1939 | | Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
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| March 16th 1939 | | NHL record 10 goals in 1 period-NY Rangers (7), NY Americans (3) & a record 26 points in the 3rd period
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| March 16th 1940 | | German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
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| March 16th 1941 | | Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota killing 60
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| March 16th 1941 | | Dmitri Shostakovitch receives the Stalin Prize
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| March 16th 1941 | | National Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC
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