This Day in History
16 Mar 1190
York Progrom Jews living in York England besieged in Cliffords Tower and massacred or commit sucide rather than submit to baptism
16 Mar 1249
The Servite Order is officially approved by Cardinal Raniero Capocci papal legate in Tuscany
16 Mar 1322
The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the First War of Scottish Independence
16 Mar 1345
Holy spirit glides above fire the miracle of Amsterdam (legend)
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Terry Anderson kidnapped
In Beirut Lebanon Islamic militants kidnap American journalist Terry Anderson and take him to the southern suburbs of the war-torn city where other Western h...
First liquid-fueled rocket
The first man to give hope to dreams of space travel is American Robert H. Goddard who successfully launches the worlds first liquid-fueled rocket at A...
My Lai massacre takes place in Vietnam
On this day in 1968 a platoon of American soldiers brutally slaughter more than 500 unarmed civilians at My Lai one of a cluster of small villages located nea...
U.S. Military Academy established
The United States Military Academythe first military school in the United Statesis founded by Congress for the purpose of educating and training...
U.S. troops massacre South Vietnamese
In what would become the most publicized war atrocity committed by U.S. troops in Vietnam a platoon slaughters between 200 and 500 unarmed villagers at My Lai ...
South Vietnamese flee Pleiku and Kontum
The withdrawal from Pleiku and Kontum begins as thousands of civilians join the soldiers streaming down Route 7B toward the sea. In late January 1975 just two...
Baseball owners give Veeck cold shoulder
On March 16 1953 baseballs owners refuse to allow Bill Veeck to move his struggling St. Louis Browns to Baltimore which forces Veeck to sell the team...
James Madison is born
Future President James Madison is born on this day in 1751 in Port Conway Virginia. Madison one of the key drafters of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of R...
Judge Roy Bean dies
Roy Bean the self-proclaimed law west of the Pecos dies in Langtry Texas.A saloonkeeper and adventurer Beans claim to fame rested on t...
Motown soul singer Tammi Terrell dies
Over a span of just 12 months beginning in April 1967 the duo of Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell enjoyed a string of four straight hits with some of the greatest...
The Scarlet Letter is published
Nathaniel Hawthornes story of adultery and betrayal in colonial America The Scarlet Letter is published.Hawthorne was born in Salem Massachusetts in...
Robert Blake acquitted of wife’s murder
On this day in 2005 after a three-month-long criminal trial in Los Angeles Superior Court a jury acquits Robert Blake star of the 1970s television detective ...
Supertanker wrecks off French coast
One of the worlds worst supertanker disasters takes places when the Amoco Cadiz wrecks off the coast of Portsall France on this day in 1978. Although ...
A virtuous woman turns murderous
Francisco Chico Forster is shot to death on downtown Los Angeles street by his jilted lover eighteen-year old Lastania Abarta. The forty-year old...
Reagan orders troops into Honduras
As part of his continuing effort to put pressure on the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua President Ronald Reagan orders over 3000 U.S. troops to Hon...
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