TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – MARCH 16 2019
597 BC Babylonians capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king
0037 On a trip to the Italian mainland from his home on Capreae, the emperor Tiberius dies on the Bay of Naples.
1190 Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism
1521 Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines.
1621 The first Indian appears to colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
1792 King Gustav III of Sweden is shot by Count Jacob Johan Anckarström at a masked ball at the Opera; he dies on March 29
1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is published.
1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
1867 First publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in “The Lancet”
1882 US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
1913 The 15,000-ton battleship Pennsylvania is launched at Newport News, Va.
1926 Physicist Robert H. Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket.
1935 Adolf Hitler orders a German rearmament and violates the Versailles Treaty.
1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson submits a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress.
1968 U.S. troops in Vietnam destroy a village consisting mostly of women and children, the action is remembered as the My-Lai massacre.
1978 Italian politician Aldo Moro was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the Red Brigades.
1984 Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut
1985 Associated Press newsman, Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut.
1988 A poison gas attack kills 5000 civilians in the Kurdish town of Halabjah
1988 Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North and Vice Admiral John M. Poindexter of the National Security Council are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States for their role in the Iran-contra affair.
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