THE DAY IN HISTORY · MARCH 16
March 16 in history
What happened on March 16: 2 moments from the Maps of History atlases, in 1922 and 1979, each linked to the map that shows it.
— Harry Thuku protest shooting
16 Mar 1922 — Police and settlers fire on a crowd demanding the release of Harry Thuku outside Nairobi’s police lines; the official count is 21 dead. Mary Muthoni Nyanjiru, who led the women, was among them.
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— Sino-Vietnamese War
17 Feb–16 Mar 1979 — China invades northern Vietnam to punish it for invading Cambodia and for its treatment of the Hoa, taking Lang Son before withdrawing. Tens of thousands of soldiers die, and the war speeds the expulsion of the north’s Hoa by sea.
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