March 16

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1621	Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."	Hella	Welcome to the Jungle Baby! Yo	The Devil Isn't Red
2	1815	Prince Willem of the House of Orange-Nassau proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.	Belly	King	King
3	1900	Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.	Killing Tree	The Bronze	Bury Me at Make-Out Creek
4	1912	Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition, left the tent to die, saying: "I am just going outside and may be some time."	The Outsiders	Time Won't Let Me	Time Won't Let Me
5	1926	History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.	The Smashing Pumpkins	Rocket	Siamese Dream
6	1958	The Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.	Devendra Banhart	Old Thunderbird	The Black Babies
7	1983	Demolition of the radio tower Ismaning, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.	Joan Baez	The Magic Wood	Baptism
8	1988	Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.	The Constantines	Poison	Shine a Light

(Historical facts about March 16 are from Wikipedia.)