March 16 1521 Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines. 1751 James Madison was born. 1787 Georg Simon Ohm was born. 1802 Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. 1850 Nathaniel Hawthornes novel The Scarlet Letter was published. 1868 Maxim Gorky was born. 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. 1926 Jerry Lewis was born. 1927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan was born. 1935 Adolf Hitler cancelled the military clauses of the Treaty of Versailles. 1940 Bernardo Bertolucci was born. 1968 The My Lai massacre occurred in Vietnam. 1978 Italian politician Aldo Moro was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the Red Brigades. 1985 U.S. journalist Terry Anderson was kidnapped in Beirut; he was not released until December 4, 1991 after 2454 days in captivity. 1988 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North and Vice Admiral John M. Poindexter of the National Security Council were indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States for their role in the Iran-contra affair.
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