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| Birthday March 16, 1739 George Clymer, signed Decl of Ind, Constitution |
| Birthday March 16, 1750 Caroline Lucretia Herchel, 1st mod woman astronomer, Hanover, Germany |
| Birthday March 16, 1751 Father of the Constitution is born |
| Birthday March 16, 1751 James Madison is born |
| Birthday March 16, 1751 James Madison, (D-R), 4th pres (1809-17) |
| Birthday March 16, 1787 Georg Simon Ohm, physicist, discovered Ohm's Law |
| Birthday March 16, 1836 Andrew S Hallidie, cable car inventor |
| Birthday March 16, 1839 Sully Prudhomme, French poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901) |
| Birthday March 16, 1903 Mike Mansfield, (D-Mont.), Sen majority whip |
| Birthday March 16, 1906 Henny Youngman, comedian |
| Birthday March 16, 1912 Pat Nixon, 1st lady, Ely Nev |
| Birthday March 16, 1916 Lloyd McBride, United Steelworkers pres |
| Birthday March 16, 1926 Jerry Lewis, entertainer, fund raiser, loved in France |
| Birthday March 16, 1927 Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (Voskhod 1, Soyuz 1) |
| Birthday March 16, 1927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, (D), NY sen |
| Birthday March 16, 1932 R Walter Cunningham, astronaut (Apollo 7) |
| Birthday March 16, 1949 Erik Estrada, Actor (CHiPs) |
| Birthday March 16, 1951 Kate Nelligan, London Ontario |
| Birthday March 16, 1954 Nancy Wilson, SF, rocker (Heart) |
| History March 16, 1621 1st Indian appears at Plymouth - Mass |
| History March 16, 1802 Law signed to establish US Milt Academy at West Point - NY |
| History March 16, 1827 1st US black newspaper - Freedom's Journal (NYC) |
| History March 16, 1850 The Scarlet Letter is published |
| History March 16, 1865 Battle of Averasboro, North Carolina |
| History March 16, 1881 A virtuous woman turns murderous |
| History March 16, 1903 Judge Roy Bean dies |
| History March 16, 1916 US & Canada sign Migratory bird treaty |
| History March 16, 1916 German Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz resigns |
| History March 16, 1926 Robert Goddard launches 1st liquid fuel rocket 184 feet |
| History March 16, 1926 First liquid-fueled rocket |
| History March 16, 1935 Hitler orders German rearmament - violating Versailles Treaty |
| History March 16, 1945 Fighting on Iwo Jima ends |
| History March 16, 1945 US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima |
| History March 16, 1952 1.87m rain fall at Cilaos - La R‚union in 24 hrs (world record) |
| History March 16, 1953 Baseball owners give Veeck cold shoulder |
| History March 16, 1966 Gemini 8 launched with 2 astronauts |
| History March 16, 1968 U.S. troops massacre South Vietnamese |
| History March 16, 1968 My Lai massacre takes place in Vietnam |
| History March 16, 1968 My-Lai massacre occurs |
| History March 16, 1970 Motown soul singer Tammi Terrell dies |
| History March 16, 1975 South Vietnamese flee Pleiku and Kontum |
| History March 16, 1975 US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury |
| History March 16, 1978 Supertanker wrecks off French coast |
| History March 16, 1978 Soyuz 26 returns to Earth |
| History March 16, 1985 Terry Anderson kidnapped |
| History March 16, 1988 Reagan orders troops into Honduras |
| History March 16, 2003 Craven edges out Busch in closest NASCAR finish |
| History March 16, 2005 Robert Blake acquitted of wife’s murder |