Today In History
March 16
37 On a trip to the Italian mainland from his home on Capreae, the
emperor Tiberius dies on the Bay of Naples. 1190 The Crusades begin
the massacre of Jews in York, England. 1527 The Emperor Babur defeats
the Rajputs at the Battle of Khanwa, removing the main Hindu rivals in
Northern India. 1621 The first Indian appears to colonists in
Plymouth, Massachusetts. 1833 Susan Hayhurst becomes the first woman
to graduate from a pharmacy college. 1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne's The
Scarlet Letter is published. 1865 Union troops push past Confederate
blockers at the Battle of Averasborough, N.C. 1907 The British cruiser
Invincible, the world's largest, is completed at Glasgow shipyards.
1913 The 15,000-ton battleship Pennsylvania is launched at Newport
News, Va. 1917 Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicates his throne.
1926 Physicist Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket.
1928 The United States plans to send 1,000 more Marines to Nicaragua.
1935 Adolf Hitler orders a German rearmament and violates the
Versailles Treaty. 1939 Germany occupies the rest of Czechoslovakia.
1945 Iwo Jima is declared secure by U.S. forces although small pockets
of Japanese resistance still exist. 1954 CBS introduces The Morning
Show hosted by Walter Cronkite to compete with NBC's Today Show. 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson submits a $1 billion war on poverty program
to Congress. 1968 U.S. troops in Vietnam destroy a village consisting
mostly of women and children, the action is remembered as the My-Lai
massacre. 1984 Mozambique and South Africa sign a pact banning support
for one another's internal foes. 1985 Associated Press newsman, Terry
Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. Born on March 16 1751 James
Madison, fourth President of the United States (1809-17). 1789 George
S. Ohm, German physicist. 1822 Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor.
1822 John Pope, Union general in the American Civil War.
1861 Maxim Gorky, Russian dramatist
1912 Thelma Catherine Patricia Ryan Nixon, first lady to President
Richard Nixon. 1926 Jerry Lewis, American comedian and film actor.
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