History for March 16 - On-This-Day.com
James Madison 1751 - Fourth president of the United States. Born in Port Conway, VA., George S. Ohm 1787, Josef Mengele 1911
Jerry Lewis 1926 - Actor, comedian, Chuck Woolery 1941 - Game show host ("Love Connection", "Lingo"), Nancy Wilson 1954 - Musician (Heart)
1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines. He was killed the next month by natives.
1802 - The U.S. Congress established the West Point Military Academy in New York.
1926 - Physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel rocket.
1935 - Adolf Hitler ordered a German rearmament and violated the Versailles Treaty.
1950 - Congress voted to remove federal taxes on oleomargarine.
1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson submitted a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress.
1984 - William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by gunmen. He died while in captivity.
1989 - In the U.S.S.R., the Central Committee approved Gorbachev's agrarian reform plan.
1999 - The 20 members of the European Union's European Commission announced their resignations amid allegations of corruption and financial mismanagement.
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