March 16
1827: The Monitor on Sydney indicts Governor Darling on 24 counts.
1968: US marines slaughter 347 Vietnamese villagers in the My Lai massacre.
March 17
1948: Police beat strikers and hospitalise Communist MP Fred Patterson in the St Patrick's Day Massacre.
March 18
1871: The Paris Commune is founded.
March 20
1943: Female munitions workers vote to strike if they aren't immediately awarded wage parity with men.
March 21
1917: Frank Hardy, novelist, communist and campaigner for Aboriginal rights, is born.
1960: 69 people are killed and 180 wounded by police in the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa.
March 22
1823: Three convicts escape to a stolen boat in Moreton Bay where they settle with local Aborigines.
From Green Left Weekly, March 16, 2005.
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