General Information for March 16th 2018 |
There are 2 public holidays today. |
Day 75 of 2018 |
290 days left in 2018 |
Week 11 of the year |
On this Day in History |
2006 - The United Nations General Assembly votes in favour of establishing the UN Human Rights Council. |
1976 - Luckily nobody is badly hurt in a London Underground IRA bombing on a train reversing into the siding at Wood Green. |
1968 - Members of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry US Army enter the village of My Lai in the South Vietnamese district of Son My on a 'search and destroy' mission. Over 450 villagers are killed in what became known as the My Lai Massacre. |
1751 - James Madison, the fourth president of the USA, is born (d. 1836). |