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On March 16:

Ferdinand Magellan

1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines.
1660 - Long Parliament, originally called by Charles I, dissolved.
1900 - Sir Arthur Evans purchased the ruins of Knossos on Crete.
1968 - American soldiers killed 347 civilians at My Lai in Vietnam.
1985 - Newsman Terry Anderson was taken hostage in Beirut.

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