March 16th

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March 16th
Topic Started: Mar 16 2009, 03:16 PM (44 Views)
Admin	Mar 16 2009, 03:16 PM Post #1
Administrator Posts: 131 Group: Administrator Member #1 Joined: November 10, 2005	1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines, where he was killed by natives the following month. 1751 James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, was born in Port Conway, Va. 1802 Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. 1836 The Republic of Texas approved a constitution. 1850 "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne was published. 1915 The Federal Trade Commission was organized. 1926 The first liquid-fuel rocket was successfully launched by Prof. Robert Goddard at Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket traveled 184 feet in 2.5 seconds. 1935 Adolf Hitler scrapped the Treaty of Versailles. 1968 U.S. Troops gunned down hundreds of unarmed civilians in the village of My Lai during the Vietnam War. 1984 William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by gunmen. 1985 Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was abducted in Beirut. 1988 Former National Security Adviser John M. Poindexter and former White House aide Oliver L. North were indicted on charges relating to the Iran-Contra affair. (Their convictions were later thrown out.) 1994 Figure skater Tonya Harding pleaded guilty in Portland, Ore., to conspiracy for covering up the attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan. 1998 The Vatican expressed remorse for the cowardice of some Christians during the Holocaust, but defended the actions of Pope Pius XII. 2003 Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American college student, was killed when she was run over by a bulldozer while trying to block Israeli troops from demolishing a Palestinian home in Gaza. 2005 A judge in Redwood City, Calif., sent Scott Peterson to death row for the slaying of his pregnant wife, Laci. 2005 A jury in Los Angeles acquitted actor Robert Blake of murder in the shooting death of his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. (A civil court jury later ordered Blake to pay $30 million to Bakley's four children.)
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