History for March 16 - On-This-Day.com:
James Madison 1751 - Fourth president of the United States, George S. Ohm 1787 - Physicist and mathematician, Maxim Gorky 1868 - Writer known as Alexei Maximovich Peshkov
Henny Youngman 1906 - Comedian, violinist, Josef Mengele 1911 - Known as the "the Angel of Death" during World War II, Jerry Lewis 1926 - Actor, comedian
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.
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.
1982 - Russia announced they would halt their deployment of new nuclear missiles in Western Europe.
1984 - William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by gunmen. He died while in captivity.
1994 - Tonya Harding pled guilty in Portland, OR, to conspiracy to hinder prosecution for covering up the attack on her skating rival Nancy Kerrigan. She was fined $100,000. She was also banned from amateur figure skating.
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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