History for March 16

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James Madison 1751 - Fourth president of the United States.

• 1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines. He was killed the next month by natives.
• 1802 - The U.S. Congress established the West Point Military Academy in New York.
• 1926 - Physicist Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fuel rocket.
• 1939 - Germany occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia.
• 1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson submitted a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress.
• 1984 - William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by gunmen. He died while in captivity.
• 1998 - Rwanda began mass trials for 1994 genocide with 125,000 suspects for 500,000 murders.