16 March History


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  • 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 Kanvaha, 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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 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 Cornet to compete with NBC's Today Show.
  • 1964    -    President Lyndon B. Johnson submits a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress.
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  • 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.

  • 16 March Birthdays

  • 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.