Today in History
March 16 - Today in History
By Staff
Mar 16, 2011 - 12:00:00 AM

0037 - Tiberius Claudius Nero, emperor of Rome (14-37), dies at 77
1079 - Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
1190 - Crusades begin massacre of Jews of York England
1190 - Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism
1345 - Holy spirit glides above fire: "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)
1517 - Pope Leo X signs 5th Council of Lateranen
1521 - Magelhaes' fleet discovers Zamal (Samar)
1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines
1527 - Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen
1621 - Native American chief visits colony of Plimouth, Massachusetts
1641 - General court declares RI a democracy and adopts new constitution
1660 - English Long Parliament disbands
1690 - French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
1730 - Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
1731 - Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England and Netherlands
1792 - Murder attempt on King Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera
1802 - Law signed to establish US Military Academy at West Point, New York
1802 - US army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
1815 - Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium
1822 - Composer Gioacchino Rossini marries Spanish soprano
1827 - 1st US black newspaper, "Freedom's Journal" (NYC), begins publishing
1829 - Ohio authorizes high school night classes
1830 - London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard)
1830 - New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
1833 - Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college
1834 - HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands
1836 - Texas approves a constitution
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
1861 - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
1861 - Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
1862 - Battle at Pound Gap Kentucky: Confederates separate battles
1865 - Battle of Averasboro NC (1,500 casualities)
1869 - Hiram R Revels makes 1st official speech by a black in the Senate
1871 - 1st fertilizer law enacted
1872 - 1st FA Cup Final: Wanderers-Royal Engineers 1-0 in Bolton
1876 - Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
1881 - Barnum and Bailey Circus debuts
1882 - Charles R Darwin, English naturalist (Origin of species), dies at 73
1882 - US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
1897 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Devil's Foot" (BG)
1900 - Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus
1900 - Chicago, KC, Minn, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cleve and Buffalo
1910 - Barney Oldfield sets land speed record of 131.7 mph at Daytona
1911 - Stanley Cup: Ottawa Senators beat Port Arthur (Ont) 13-4
1912 - Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Washington, D.C.
1915 - British battle cruisers Inflexible and Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle
1915 - Federal Trade Commission organizes
1916 - US and Canada sign migratory bird treaty
1918 - Geoffrey O'Hara's "K-K-K-Katy" song published
1920 - 1 Acre Park also known as Baby Park in the Bronx renamed Melrose Park
1922 - Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
1926 - Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters)
1930 - USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
1933 - Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
1934 - Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1935 - Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
1938 - Temple defeats Colorado to win 1st NIT
1939 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
1939 - Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
1940 - German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
1941 - Blizzard hits North Dakota and Minnesota killing 60
1941 - Dmitri Shostakovitch receives the Stalin Prize
1941 - National Gallery of Art opens in Washington, D.C.
1943 - Elin K (No) and Zaanland (Neth) torpedoed and sinks
1944 - Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
1945 - Allies secure Iwo Jima
1947 - Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
1950 - 1st annual National Book Awards
1952 - 1870 mm rain in Cilaos, R�union (world record)
1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1953 - AL rejects Bill Veeck's request to move St Louis Browns to Baltimore
1955 - Josephine Kroesen appointed as 1st Dutch female judge
1955 - President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1956 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Tenley Albright
1956 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Hayes A Jenkins
1957 - 9th Emmy Awards: Phil Silvers Show, Robert Young and Loretta Young
1957 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1957 - Toronto Maple Leafs tie NHL record 37 points beating NY Rangers 14-1
1958 - Beverly Hanson wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1959 - Iraq and USSR sign economic/technical treaty
1962 - 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket
1962 - US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167
1964 - Paul Hornung and Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension
1966 - Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong and Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
1966 - Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London
1967 - Pirate Radio Station 333 (Radio Britain) ship breaks down
1968 - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
1968 - Robert F Kennedy announces presidential campaign
1969 - Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1969 - Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
1970 - New English Bible published
1971 - Thomas E Dewey, US president candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68
1971 - 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win
1972 - John and Yoko are served with deportation papers
1974 - 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville
1975 - US Mariner 10 makes 3rd and final fly-by of Mercury
1976 - British premier Harold Wilson resigns
1977 - US president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
1978 - Amoco Cadiz spills 223,000 tons of crude oil off French coast
1978 - Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed
1978 - Soyuz 26 returns to Earth
1978 - US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty
1978 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1979 - CBS-TV airs "Wings Over the World" with Paul McCartney
1980 - Joanne Carner wins LPGA Honda Civic Golf Classic
1983 - Smallest crowd at Cleveland Coliseum (Cavs vs Nets-1,814)
1984 - Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
1984 - South-Africa and Mozambique sign non attack treaty
1985 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
1985 - Denny McLain, pitcher; convicted of racketeering, sentenced to 25 yrs
1986 - Chris Johnson wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
1988 - Federal grand jury indicts North and Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair
1988 - North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed
1988 - US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
1991 - 7 of Reba McEntire band members are killed in a plane crash
1991 - Members of Irish Gay and Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade
1991 - NJ Net coach Bill Fitch is 4th coach to win 800 NBA games
1991 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Munich won by Kristi Yamaguchi
1992 - Matt Keough, in the dugout, is hit flush in the head by a batted ball
1994 - Moravcik forms Slovakia government
1994 - Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1995 - Mississippi formally abolishes slavery and ratifies 13th Amendment
1996 - Mike Tyson KOs Frank Bruno in 2nd round
1997 - Donna Andrews wins LPGA Welch's/Circle K Championship
1997 - NJ Devils' Dave Andreychuk is 26th NHL to score 500 goals
1997 - Stuart Appleby wins Honda Golf Classic
1998 - The Vatican expressed remorse for the cowardice of some Christians during the Holocaust, but defended the actions of Pope Pius XII
1998 - Rwanda began mass trials for the country's 1994 genocide
2000 - Independent counsel Robert Ray said he had found no credible evidence that first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton or senior White House officials were involved in seeking the FBI background files of Republicans
2002 - Brittanie Cecil, 13, was struck by a flying hockey puck during an NHL game between the hometown Columbus Blue Jackets and the Calgary Flames; she died two days later
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)
2006 - Iraq's new parliament met briefly for the first time; lawmakers took the oath but did no business and adjourned after just 40 minutes

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