On This Day
16 March
- 🇮🇳 In India
- 1527 Battle of Khanua took place in which Mughal Emperor Babur defeated Rajput forces led by Rana Sanga.
- 1559 Maharana Amar Singh I, the Maharana of Mewar, was born. The eldest son and successor of Maharana Pratap, he was ruler of Mewar from January 19, 1597 till his death on January 26, 1620. His capital was Udaipur.
- 1846 The princely state of Jammu and Kashmir came into existence with the signing of the Treaty of Amritsar between the British East India Company and the Dogra ruler Maharaja Gulab Singh.
- 2012 Sachin Tendulkar becomes first cricketer to score 100 international centuries.
- 🌎 Elsewhere
- 1521 Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines.
- 1750 Caroline Lucretia Herschel, German astronomer, was born. Her most significant contributions to astronomy were the discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name.
- 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter was published.
- 1926 The first liquid-fuel rocket was successfully launched by Prof. Robert Goddard at Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket traveled 184 feet in 2.5 seconds.
- ⭐ Significance
- The Government of India observes 16 March as National Vaccination Day to acknowledge and appreciate the hard work of frontline health care workers to ensure the vaccination of every child. India has made remarkable progress in scaling up routine immunization through intensified vaccination drives.
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