03-16-2005, 06:17 AM
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March 16th
1521 ~ Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.
1736 ~ Death of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer.
1789 ~ Birthday of Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist and developer of Ohm's law
1850 ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Scarlet Letter was first published.
1898 ~ Death of Aubrey Beardsley, British Artist.
1900 ~ Sir Arthur Evans purchases the land around the ruins of Knossos on Crete.
1926 ~ Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
1978 ~ Aldo Moro was kidnapped by left-wing urban guerrillas in Italy and was later killed by his captors.
1984 ~ William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later died in captivity.
1988 ~ The Kurdish town of Halabjah attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents killing 5000.
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