Today in History
Listings for Tuesday, March 16, 2021.
Birthdays:
- 1751 James Madison, 4th President (1809-1817)
- 1836 Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor of the Cable Car.
- 1906 Henny Youngman
- 1912 Pat Nixon
- 1915 K. Kodaira --1997
- 1926 Jerry Lewis
- 1940 Bernardo Bertolucci
- 1949 Erik Estrada
- 1953 Richard Stallman, founder of GNU project
Events:
- Return of long-billed curlews to Umatilla, Oregon
- 1621 First Indian appears at Plymouth, Massachusets
- 1802 Law signed to establish US Military Academy at West Point, NY
- 1827 First US black newspaper, Freedom's Journal, New York
- 1916 US and Canada sign Migratory Bird Treaty
- 1926 Robert Goddard launches first liquid fuel rocket - 184 feet
- 1935 Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
- 1966 Gemini 8 launched with 2 astronauts
- 1975 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd, and final, fly-by of Mercury.
That's all for today.