March 16

The sixteenth day of March.

Events

 * 597 BC: Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jeconiah with Zedekiah as king. Judah becomes a vassal of Babylonia.
 * 1998: Pope John Paul II apologizes for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust.

Deaths
37: Roman Emperor Tiberius.
 * 1937: Attilio Cardinal Nicora of Italy, President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See

Eastern Orthodox
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