March 16, 1959 (Monday)
- Born Flavor Flav, American rapper (as William Jonathan Drayton, Jr.), in Roosevelt, New York, and Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway, in Oslo
- Died: John B. Salling, 112, American Civil War veteran, in Kingsport, Tennessee. His death left one surviving veteran claimant, Walter Williams of Houston, whose age and service were later disputed.
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Famous quotes containing the word march:
“As high as mind stands above nature, so high does the state stand above physical life. Man must therefore venerate the state as a secular deity.... The march of God in the world, that is what the State is.”
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)