03-16-2006, 06:28 AM
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March 16th
1521 ~ Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines, where he was killed by natives the following month.
1736 ~ Death of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer.
1789 ~ Birthday of Georg Ohm, German physicist and developer of Ohm's law.
1850 ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter was first published.
1898 ~ Death of Aubrey Beardsley, British Artist.
1926 ~ Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
1968 ~ The My Lai Massacre was carried out by U.S. troops under the command of Lt. William L. Calley.
1978 ~ Aldo Moro was kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas in Italy and was later killed by his captors.
1984 ~ William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists; he died in captivity.
1988 ~ The Kurdish town of Halabjah attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents killing 5000.
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