March 16 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for March 16
In the headlines today:

1995	Norman Thagard becomes the first US astronaut to visit the Russian Mir space station.
1978	Italian politician Aldo Moro is kidnapped, and later killed, by terrorists.
1971	New York governor and presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey dies.
1968	US troops under the command of Lt. Wm. Calley, Jr., massacre civilians at My Lai during the Vietnam conflict.
1945	The US capture of Iwo Jima is completed during WWII.
1928	The Presbyterian Medical Center Hospital opens in New York City.
1926	The first liquid fuel rocket is launched.
1926	Kentucky adopts goldenrod as its state flower.
1923	Missouri adopts Hawthorne as its state flower.
1922	Faud I is proclaimed King of Egypt.
1915	The US Federal Trade Commission is established.
1910	Auto racer Barney Oldfield sets a land speed record of 131.724 mph.
1898	Illustrator Aubrey Beardsley dies.
1850	Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, is published.
1802	The US Military Academy is founded at West Point, NY.
1713	The Asiento Treaty, a slave trade agreement, is signed by Britain, France, and Spain.
1285	King Alexander III of Scotland dies after falling from a horse.

Born today:

1959 Flavor Flav - rapper (Public Enemy)

1955 Isabelle Huppert - actress

1954 Nancy Wilson - guitarist, singer, songwriter (Heart)

1954 Hollis Stacy - golfer

1951 Kate Nelligan - actress

1949 Erik Estrada - actor

1942 Jerry Jeff Walker - country singer, guitarist

1942 Roger Crozier - hockey player

1941 Bernardo Bertolucci - film director

1932 R. Walter Cunningham - astronaut

1932 Betty Johnson - singer

1930 Hobie Landrith - baseball player

1927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan - US Senator (New York)

1926 Jerry Lewis - actor, comedian

1920 Leo McKern - actor

1912 Pat Nixon - wife of 37th US president Richard M. Nixon

1903 Mike Mansfield - US Senator

1751 James Madison - 4th US president

1739 George Clymer - signer of the Declaration of Independence

Born today? Your sign of the Zodiac is:

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