| 37 |
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On a trip to the Italian mainland from his home on Capreae, the emperor Tiberius dies on the Bay of Naples. |
| 1190 |
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The Crusades begin the massacre of Jews in York, England. |
| 1527 |
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The Emperor Babur defeats the Rajputs at the Battle of Kanvaha, removing the main Hindu rivals in Northern India. |
| 1621 |
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The first Indian appears to colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts. |
| 1833 |
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Susan Hayhurst becomes the first woman to graduate from a pharmacy college. |
| 1850 |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is published. |
| 1865 |
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Union troops push past Confederate blockers at the Battle of Averasborough, N.C. |
| 1907 |
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The British cruiser Invincible, the world’s largest, is completed at Glasgow shipyards. |
| 1913 |
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The 15,000-ton battleship Pennsylvania is launched at Newport News, Va. |
| 1917 |
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Russian Czar Nicholas II abdicates his throne. |
| 1926 |
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Physicist Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket. |
| 1928 |
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The United States plans to send 1,000 more Marines to Nicaragua. |
| 1935 |
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Adolf Hitler orders a German rearmament and violates the Versailles Treaty. |
| 1939 |
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Germany occupies the rest Czechoslovakia. |
| 1945 |
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Iwo Jima is declared secure by U.S. forces although small pockets of Japanese resistance still exist. |
| 1954 |
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CBS introduces The Morning Show hosted by Walter Cornet to compete with NBC’s Today Show. |
| 1964 |
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President Lyndon B. Johnson submits a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress. |
| 1968 |
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U.S. troops in Vietnam destroy a village consisting mostly of women and children, the action is remembered as the My-Lai massacre. |
| 1984 |
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Mozambique and South Africa sign a pact banning support for one another’s internal foes. |
| 1985 |
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Associated Press newsman, Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. |
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Born on March 16 |
| 1751 |
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James Madison, fourth President of the United States (1809-17). |
| 1789 |
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George S. Ohm, German physicist. |
| 1822 |
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Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor. |
| 1822 |
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John Pope, Union general in the American Civil War. |
| 1861 |
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Maxim Gorky, Russian dramatist |
| 1912 |
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Thelma Catherine Patricia Ryan Nixon, first lady to President Richard Nixon. |
| 1926 |
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Jerry Lewis, American comedian and film actor. |
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