On This Day: March 16, 2010
Birthdays:| 1751 | James Madison, Former (4th) American President | | 1868 | Maksim Gorky, Russian author | | 1920 | Leo McKern, Australian actor of stage and screen | | 1926 | Jerry Lewis, American comedian & partner of Dean Martin | | 1951 | Kate Nelligan, Actress | | 1954 | Nancy Wilson, Pop singer with the group 'Heart' | | 1954 | Jimmy Nail, Singer and actor |
Events:| 1802 | West Point, the first United States Military Academy, was established | | 1900 | The ancient city of Knossos on the island of Crete was discovered | | 1926 | Robert Goddard launched the first petrol & liquid oxygen powered rocket | | 1935 | In Germany Hitler introduced conscription, renouncing the Treaty of Versailles | | 1939 | Marriage of Princess Fawzia of Egypt to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran | | 1973 | The Queen opened the new London Bridge, the previous one having been sold for 1 million pounds and rebuilt in the US | | 1976 | British Labour leader Harold Wilson resigned as Prime Minister | | 1983 | A second letter bomb in 24hrs, addressed to the British Prime Minister, was defused | | 1988 | Worst chemical attack committed by the Iraqi regime on the city of Halabja (Kurdistan) Killing 5,000 innocent civilian Kurds | | 1998 | Pope John Paul II apologises for inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust | | 2006 | The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council | | 2006 | Kurds in Halabja protests against the Kurdistan Leaders in the 18th anniversary of Halabja, the violence destroy a museum, 15 year Kurdish boy killed |
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