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March 16, 1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached
the island of Homonhon in the Philippines with 150 crew. Members of his
expedition became the first Spaniards to reach the Philippine archipelago, but
were not the first Europeans. He landed with three small ships - Concepcion,
Trinidad, and Victoria - and called the place the Arcigelago de San Lazaro
since it was the feast day of Saint Lazarus of Bethany. He was killed the next
month by natives.
March 16, 1751 - James Madison, the fourth president of the
United States, was born near Port Conway, Va. He was one of the main drafters
of the U.S. Constitution, recorder of the Constitutional Convention, one of the
authors of “The Federalist Papers” and served two terms as President.
March 16, 1782 – During the American Revolutionary War,
Spanish troops captured the British-held island of Roatán, the largest of
Honduras' Bay Islands.
March 16, 1789 – English general and explorer Francis
Chesney was born in Annalong, a
seaside village in County Down, Northern Ireland at the foot of the Mourne
Mountains.
March 16, 1802 – The United States Military Academy – the
first military school in the United States – was founded by Congress for the
purpose of educating and training young men in the theory and practice of
military science. Located at West Point, New York, the U.S. Military Academy is
often simply known as West Point.
March 16, 1830 – Scottish author and newspaperman James
Stuart, who wrote “Three Years in North America,” arrived in Montgomery, Ala.
He traveled from Montgomery to Mobile by stagecoach, and he described his
travels in his book.
March 16, 1836 - The Republic of Texas approved a
constitution.
March 16, 1850 - The novel "The Scarlet Letter" by
Nathaniel Hawthorne was published for the first time.
March 16, 1861 – Edward Clark became Governor of Texas,
replacing Sam Houston, who has been evicted from the office for refusing to
take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy.
March 6, 1861 – During the Civil War, the Arizona Territory Convention, held in Mesilla, Az., voted to leave the Federal Union.
March 16, 1862 – During the Civil War, martial law was declared in San Francisco as Federal authorities heard increasing rumors that there was to be a Confederate attack on the city. Skirmishes were also fought at Pound Gap, Ky.; at Black Jack Forest, near Pittsburg Landing, Tenn.; and at Marshall, Mo.
March 16, 1863 – During the Civil War, General Ulysses S. Grant and Admiral David Dixon Porter were working remarkably well together in the project to defeat Vicksburg. Despite the cooperation between usually hostile forces, the grim fact of the matter was that they just weren’t making any progress. The expedition to the Yazoo Pass had returned, a failure, so a new plan was devised to proceed from the Yalobusha to Yazoo River, to Steele’s Bayou. This would have been very tricky even if the Confederates weren’t already aware of the plan. A three-day Federal operation between Trenton and Jackson, Tenn. began.
March 16, 1864 – During the Civil War, the Red River
Campaign continued as Union troops reached Alexandria, Louisiana.
March 16, 1864 – During the Civil War, skirmishes were fought at Palatka, Fla.; in the vicinity of Tullahoma, Tenn.; and at Annandale and Bristoe Station, Va. Federal forces occuppied Alexandria, La. A nine-day Federal operation from Pilot Knob Mo., to the Arkansas state line began. A 38-day Confederate operation into Western Tennessee and Kentucky began, led by Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest. A three-day Federal operation between Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia and Snicker’s Gap, Va. began. A three-day Federal operation began in Cabell and Wayne counties, West Virginia.
March 16, 1865 – During the Civil War, the Battle of
Averasborough began in North Carolina as Confederate forces suffered
irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war. Union troops in the
battle were led by General William T. Sherman. The Yankees lost approximately
95 men killed, 530 wounded, and 50 missing, while Confederates lost about 865 total.
March 16, 1865 – During the Civil War, a Federal operation between Winchester and Front Royal, Va. began. A Federal operation from Summit Point to Shenandoah Ferry, West Virginia began. A skirmish was fought at Little Cohera Creek, N.C.
March 16, 1878 – Stage and film actor Henry Brazeale
Walthall was born in Shelby County, Ala. He is best known for his role of the
“Little Colonel” in D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation.”
March 16, 1892 – Poet Cesar Vallejo was born in Santiago de
Chuco, Peru.
March 16, 1900 – Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around
the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
March 16, 1900 - Ban Johnson, after presiding over a meeting
of baseball owners, announced that the new American League would begin play in
April with teams in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Kansas
City, Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
March 16, 1905 – The Monroe Journal repored that the
Alger-Sullivan Lumber Co. would begin operating a new freight and passenger
train over their railroad from Century, Fla. to the end of the line in Monroe
County, Ala. The train would be a mixture of freight cars with a passenger
coach partitioned for white and colored passengers. The train was to leave
Century every afternoon and to return in the morning, an arrangement that would
allow passengers from Monroe County to visit Mobile or Pensacola in the morning
and to return to their homes in the afternoon.
March 16, 1905 – The Monroe Journal reported that J.F.
Hassell & Co. had opened a new livery and sale stable in Monroeville, Ala.,
occupying the “Watson old stand” on the west side of the square.
March 16, 1906 – Comedian Henny Youngman was born in London.
March 16, 1911
– German physician and SS officer Josef Mengele was born in Günzburg, Bavaria,
Germany.
March 16, 1912 – Lawrence Oates, an ill member of Robert
Falcon Scott's South Pole expedition, left his tent to die, saying: "I am
just going outside and may be some time."
March 16, 1914 – B.B. Comer spoke at the Monroe County
Courthouse, Jones Mill and Repton while campaigning for Alabama governor.
March 16, 1916 – The Conecuh Record reported that the L.D.
King Lumber Co. had shipped several carloads of lumber to Nova Scotia that
week.
March 16, 1916 – The following candidates announced their
candidacy for the Conecuh County (Ala.) Board of Education: Dr. R.T. Holland,
Castleberry; Dr. E.L. Kelley, Repton; Dr. W.A. Blair, Herbert; T.A. Jones, Rt.
1, Garland; E.J. McCreary, Evergreen; Geo. M. Harper, Herbert; Luke J. Mixon,
Evergreen; S.B. Sanders, Brooklyn. Hugh S. Hagood, a civil engineer who had
been county surveyor for a number of year, also announced his candidacy for
County Tax Assessor. Old Town Beat farmer N.T. Aarons also announced his
candidacy for Third District Member of the Board of Revenue.
March 16, 1916 – The Monroe Journal reported that Mrs. Julia
Hatter Emmons had opened a Kindergarten at her home on Eastside and was glad to
enroll all beginners under seven years. “Emmons recently took a special course
in kindergarten work in Chicago and is prepared to conduct the institution along
lines of latest developments in this work. This is the first institution of the
kind ever established in the county and is worthy of liberal encouragement.”
March 16, 1918 - Tallulah Bankhead of Huntsville, Ala. made
her New York acting debut with a role in "The Squab Farm."
March 16, 1920 – German SS officer Dorothea Binz was born in
Försterei Dusterlake.
March 16, 1926 – Robert Goddard launched the first
liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Mass.
March 16, 1935 – Adolf Hitler ordered Germany to rearm
herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced
to form the Wehrmacht.
March 16, 1937 - Alabama author Richmond Pearson Hobson died
in New York, N.Y.
March 16, 1939 – From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaimed
Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
March 16, 1951 – Pro Football Hall of Fame offensive guard
Joe DeLamielleure was born in Detroit, Mich. He went on to play for Michigan
State, the Buffalo Bills and the Cleveland Browns. He was inducted into the
Hall of Fame in 2003.
March 16, 1952 – Novelist Alice Hoffman was born in New York
City.
March 16, 1953 - Baseball’s owners refused to allow Bill
Veeck to move his struggling St. Louis Browns to Baltimore, which forced Veeck
to sell the team. Veeck was the clown prince among baseball owners, prone to
boneheaded stunts as well as inspired pranks, all aimed at bringing people to
the ballpark and making a baseball game as entertaining as possible.
March 16, 1956 – Pro Football Hall of Fame tight end Ozzie
Newsome was born in Muscle Shoals, Ala. He would go on to play for Alabama and
the Cleveland Browns. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999.
March 16, 1957 – In an incident attributed to the “Dragon’s
Triangle,” a U.S. Navy JD-1 Invader plane disappeared between Japan and
Okinawa.
March 16, 1962 – A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappeared
in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
March 16, 1964 - Paul Hornung and Alex Karras were
reinstated to the National Football League after an 11-month suspension for
betting on football games.
March 16, 1966 – NFL quarterback Rodney Peete was born in
Mesa, Az. He would go on to play for Southern Cal, the Detroit Lions, the
Dallas Cowboys, the Philadelphia Eagles, the Washington Redskins, the Oakland
Raiders and the Carolina Panthers.
March 16, 1968 – Army PFC Dewey Ray Owens of Andalusia, Ala.
was killed in action in Vietnam.
March 16, 1968 – During the Vietnam War, in the My Lai
Massacre, between 200 and 500 Vietnamese unarmed villagers (men, women, and
children) were killed by a platoon of American troops at My Lai, one of a
cluster of small villages located near the northern coast of South Vietnam.
March 16, 1970 – Army Spc. James Steven Stanley of Opp, Ala.
was killed in action in Vietnam.
March 16, 1975- During the Vietnam War, the withdrawal from Pleiku and Kontum began, as thousands of civilians joined the soldiers streaming down Route 7B toward the sea.
March 16, 1976 – Major League Baseball third baseman Abraham
Núñez was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. During his career, he
played for the Pittsburg Pirates, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Philadelphia
Phillies and the New York Mets.
March 16, 1979 – College and NFL defensive tackle Rashad
Moore was born in Huntsville, Ala. He went on to play for the University of
Tennesse, the Seattle Seahawks, the New York Jets and the New England Patriots.
March 16, 1979 – During the Sino-Vietnamese War, the People's
Liberation Army crossed the border back into China, ending the war.
March 16, 1988 – During what is now known as the “Halabja
Chemical Attack,” the Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq was attacked with a mix
of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000
people and injuring about 10,000 people.
March 16, 1989 – In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy was found
near the Pyramid of Cheops.
March 16, 1995 – Mississippi formally ratified the
Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of
slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
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