Historical Events for 16th March 2026

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1731 - Treaty of Vienna signed by Prince Eugene of Savoy, Count Sinzendorf and Count Gundacker, Thomas Stahremberg and the British envoy to Vienna, Sir Thomas Robinson.
1941 - National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C.
1946 - Bobby Clark's stage farce "The Would-Be Gentleman", adapted from Moliére’s "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme", closes at the Booth Theater, NYC. after 77 performances
1966 - Gemini 8 launched with Neil Armstrong and David R. Scott aboard, conducts the 1st docking of two spacecraft in orbit, flight aborted after critical system failure with the crew returned safely to Earth
1975 - Gene Curty, Nitra Scharfman and Chuck Strand's musical rock opera "The Lieutenant" closes at the Lyceum Theater, NYC, after 9 performances
1988 - US sends 3,000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
2020 - Global infections and deaths from COVID-19 overtake those in China for the 1st time, 86,000 vs 80,860 infections, 3,241 vs 3,208 deaths according to John Hopkins Uni
2022 - US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for the first time since 2018 by a quarter of a point to help ease rising price inflation

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