March 16 in San Antonio history…

1956
The San Antonio City Council pledges to end segregation at municipal swimming pools.

1960
Six downtown stores and a city-wide drugstore integrate lunch counters and cafeterias.  These are:  Woolworth’s, Kress, Neisner’s, Green’s, McCrory Variety Stores and Sommers Drug stores.

1982
Inebriated singer Ozzy Osbourne is arrested for urinating on the Alamo Cenotaph.

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