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March 16th1926 Jerry Lewis, best known as a comedian who had his best success in the late forties and early Fifties in the "Martin and Lewis show", starring Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin , was born on this day.
1935 Voluntary driving tests were introduced in Britain and became compulsory in June of the same year.
1940 World War II: James Isbister became the first person killed in a German bombing raid; on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
1968 U.S. troops kill between 300 and 500 unarmed civilians in My Lai, South Vietnam. Twenty-six soldiers were charged with criminal offenses, but only platoon leader Lieutenant William Calley Jr. was convicted. He was found guilty of killing 22 villagers and given a life sentence, but served only three and a half years under house arrest.
1968 Senator Robert F. Kennedy, the brother of assassinated President John F. Kennedy, announced his run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1971 The British heavyweight boxing champion Henry Cooper announced his retirement after being defeated by Joe Bugner.
1976 Harold Wilson, Prime Minister for almost eight years, and leader of the Labour Party for 13 years, resigned. He insisted that there were no hidden reasons for his resignation although it was suggested that he might already have been aware of the first stages of early-onset Alzheimer's disease, which was to cause both his formerly excellent memory and his powers of concentration to fail dramatically.
1988 A gunman killed 3 mourners and injured at least 50 who had been attending a funeral for IRA members shot dead in Gibraltar.
1998 Sir George Martin (producer of The Beatles in the 1960s and 70s) announced his retirement, aged 73.
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1974 Richard Nixon performs at the Grand Ole Opry. The U.S. President plays piano for the opening of the famous radio show's new theater.
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