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.
- 1935 - Adolf Hitler ordered a German rearmament and violated the Versailles Treaty.
- 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.
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