Dele Giwa
1190: The Crusaders massacred 150 Jews at Clifford’s Tower, York, following a wave of attacks against Jews that had moved north from London to Stamford, Lincoln, King’s Lynn, Colchester, and Bury St. Edmunds, before culminating in the bloodiest atrocity of them all, in York, Some Jews committed mass suicide rather than submit to baptism and they set the castle on fire to prevent their bodies being mutilated after their deaths. A few Jews did surrender, promising to convert to Christianity, but 150 were killed by the angry crowd.
1802: U.S. Military Academy established.
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1921: British activist Marie Stopes and her husband opened the first birth control clinic in England—a London facility called the Mothers’ Clinic for Constructive Birth Control.
1956: Mariam Makeba’s first solo record, Lovely Lies, performed with the group The Manhattan Brothers, becomes the first South African song to enter Billboard’s Top 100 chart in the U.S., rising to position 45.
1968: During the Vietnam War, U.S. soldiers dispatched on a search-and-destroy mission killed as many as 500 unarmed villagers in the hamlet of My Lai, considered a stronghold of the Viet Cong.
1971: The British heavyweight boxing champion Henry Cooper announced his retirement after being defeated by Joe Bugner.
1973: Elizabeth II opened the new London Bridge. The old one was sold to an American oil tycoon for £1m and transported to the United States.
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.
2001: According to a health survey, 16th March 2001 was the only day between 1993 and 2002 when nobody in the United Kingdom killed themselves.
Births on This Day, March 16
Rupert Sanders, 53 years
Rupert Miles sanders is an English film director. He has directed the films Snow White and the hunts and Ghost in the Shell.
Nat King Cole (17 March 1919 – 15 February 1965)
Nathaniel Adams Coles was an American musician who first came to prominence as a jazz pianist but who reached enormous popularity with his warm, relaxed, somewhat breathy-voiced ballad singing. Cole’s career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100 songs that became hits on the pop charts. He died at the age of 45.
Dele Giwa (16 March 1947 – 19 October 1986)
Sumonu Oladele Giwa “Baines” attended the local Authority Modern School in Lagere, Ile-ife. He worked for The New York Times as a news assistant for four years after which he relocated to Nigeria to work with Daily Times. He co-founded Newswatch in 1984.
Two days after Dele Giwa was called for an interview by State Security Service (SSS) officials, he was killed by a parcel bomb in his home in Ikeja, Lagos when he was 39.
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