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Jamie Kalven (born 1948) is an American journalist, author, human rights activist, and community organizer based in Chicago, Illinois. He founded the Invisible Institute, a non-profit journalism organization based in Chicago's South Side. Kalven has been referred to as a "guerrilla journalist" by Chicago journalist Studs Terkel. His work in the city has included reporting on police misconduct and poor conditions of public housing. Kalven won a landmark court case – Kalven v. City of Chicago – which held that police misconduct records are public information under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. Thereafter, the Institute became a hub for information related to police misconduct in Chicago. In the aftermath of the 2014 murder of Laquan McDonald by a police officer, Kalven received accolades for obtaining a copy of an autopsy report showing that McDonald had been shot 16 times execution-style, contradicting official reports of a single gunshot wound. (Full article...)

Front cover of "Maple Leaf Rag" (1899)

• ... that the actress Lottie Williams was one of the cakewalk dancers depicted on the front cover of the sheet music for Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag" (pictured)?
• ... that the 1974 conference Transvestism and Transsexualism in Modern Society in Leeds became an early platform for the emergence of terms such as "gender alignment" and "trans.people"?
• ... that both Thackeray and Longfellow bought paintings by Fanny Steers?
• ... that Samoa House was the first fale (traditional Samoan house) built outside of Samoa?
• ... that as a high schooler in 2018, Logan O'Hoppe caught a home-run ball at Yankee Stadium hit by visiting player Manny Machado and was televised throwing it back on the field?
• ... that Lana Del Rey, who is known as an alt-pop artist, will release her first official country album, Lasso, this year?
• ... that Patricia Grace did not intend for her novel Potiki, about the impact of land development on an indigenous community, to be seen as political?
• ... that in the 1934 German referendum, some areas recorded more votes than there were eligible voters?

Luís Montenegro

• In Portugal, the Democratic Alliance (leader Luís Montenegro pictured) wins the most seats in a snap legislative election.
• At the Academy Awards, Oppenheimer wins seven awards, including Best Picture.
• Japanese manga artist Akira Toriyama, author of Dragon Ball, dies at the age of 68.
• Sweden becomes the thirty-second member state of NATO.

March 16: Remembrance Day of the Latvian Legionnaires

Cap badge of the Royal Welch Fusiliers

• 934 – Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period: Chinese general Meng Zhixiang proclaimed himself emperor and established Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
• 1689 – The Royal Welch Fusiliers (cap badge pictured), one of the oldest line-infantry regiments of the British Army, was founded.
• 1819 – The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in New York City, was incorporated.
• 1984 – William Buckley, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists.
• 1988 – Michael Stone, an Ulster loyalist, attacked the funeral of three Provisional IRA members, killing three attendees and injuring at least sixty others.