What happened on 16 March?

11 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1850 Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter Puritan New England morality novel.
2. 1831 Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame Hugo's novel of medieval Paris and Quasimodo.
3. 1942 Operation Reinhard In twenty months, the three camps built for the purpose — Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka — murder some 1.7 million Jews of occupied Poland, most within hours of arrival. The operati
4. 1926 Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket Robert Goddard's little rocket flies 41 feet from a Massachusetts cabbage field; mocked by the New York Times, it is the Kitty Hawk of spaceflight.
5. 1968 My Lai massacre US soldiers kill 504 unarmed Vietnamese villagers; coverup unraveled by journalist Seymour Hersh; intense political fallout.
6. 1960 Breathless released Jean-Luc Godard's jump-cut crime film; launched the French New Wave.
7. 2011 The Pearl Roundabout crushed Bahrain's month-long protest camp at the Pearl Roundabout is cleared by force — days after Saudi and Emirati troops cross the causeway to shore up the monarchy — and the monument i
8. 1988 Halabja chemical attack Saddam Hussein's forces gas the Kurdish town of Halabja, killing thousands — the largest chemical attack against civilians in history.
9. 1812 Siege of Badajoz Wellington's army storms the Spanish fortress; one of the bloodiest assaults of the Napoleonic Wars; troops sack the town for two days afterward.
10. 1754 The Duke of Newcastle's first premiership Newcastle takes over from his brother Pelham and is brought down by early defeats in the Seven Years War.
11. 2012 Tendulkar's hundredth international century A hundred hundreds across Tests and one-day cricket, a milestone no other batter has reached.