On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
Portrait 1080 × 1920 PNG · created on your device
Thousands of reports say a device to measure the levels of warfarin with a drop of blood is malfunctioning, yet it remains on the market.
White men narrowly backed Hillary Clinton in 2008, but they are not getting behind her candidacy in force in major battleground states this year, rattling some Democrats.
Both Gov. Rick Snyder and Gina McCarthy, the administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, were repeatedly pressed on their responsibility in the lead contamination scandal.
Mr. Garland is known as an appeals court judge who respects Supreme Court precedent. His most charged cases, on national security and campaign finance, sometimes disappointed liberals.
His new album may be called “Post Pop Depression,” and he may hint that it’s his last, but at South by Southwest he was forceful and swaggering.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 16, 2016, covering March 18, 2016.
The 1975
Adele
Rihanna
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Justin Bieber
2016Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter (born 1939)[†]
Melvin Barry Hines, FRSL was an English author, playwright and screenwriter. His novels and screenplays explore the political and economic struggles of working-class Northern England, particularly in his native West Riding/South Yorkshire.
2016Jan Němec, Czech director and screenwriter (born 1936)[†]
Jan Němec was a Czech filmmaker whose most important work dates from the 1960s. Film historian Peter Hames has described him as the "enfant terrible of the Czech New Wave."
2016Tray Walker, American football player (born 1992)[†]
Tray Walker was an American professional football player who was a cornerback for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Texas Southern Tigers, and was drafted by the Ravens in the 4th round of the 2015 NFL draft, ultimately playing only one season with the team before his death.
2016Guido Westerwelle, German lawyer and politician, 15th Vice-Chancellor of Germany (born 1961)[†]
Guido Westerwelle was a German politician who served as foreign minister in the second cabinet of Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice-Chancellor of Germany from 2009 to 2011, being the first openly gay person to hold any of these positions. He also led the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) from 2001 until he stepped down in 2011. A lawyer by profession, he was a member of the Bundestag from 1996 to 2013.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]