| General Information for March 16th 2015 |
| There are 2 public holidays today. |
| Day 75 of 2015 |
| 290 days left in 2015 |
| Week 12 of the year |
| On this Day in History |
| 2006 - The United Nations General Assembly votes in favour of establishing the UN Human Rights Council. |
| 1976 - Luckily nobody is badly hurt in a London Underground IRA bombing on a train reversing into the siding at Wood Green. |
| 1968 - Members of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry US Army enter the village of My Lai in the South Vietnamese district of Son My on a 'search and destroy' mission. Over 450 villagers are killed in what became known as the My Lai Massacre. |
| 1751 - James Madison, the fourth president of the USA, is born (d. 1836). |