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March 16, 2016 / 3:30 AM

UPI Almanac for Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Robert Goddard launched world's first liquid-fuel rocket, William Buckley (in 1984) and Terry Anderson (in 1985) are kidnapped by Hezbollah terrorists in Beirut ... on this date in history.

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Closer view of the Agena Target Docking vehicle seen from the Gemini 8 spacecraft during docking maneuvers on March 16, 1966. Photo courtesy NASA
NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong (L), command pilot, and David Scott, pilot, the Gemini 8 prime crew, during a photo session outside the Kennedy Space Center Mission Control Center on March 11, 1966. UPI | License Photo
Color design for the emblem of the Gemini 8 spaceflight. Roman numeral indicates the eighth flight in the Gemini series. Prime crewmen for the mission are astronauts Neil Armstrong, command pilot, and David Scott, pilot. UPI | License Photo
NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong (R) and David Scott (L) sit with their spacecraft hatches open while awaiting the arrival of the recovery ship, the USS Leonard F. Mason after the completion of their Gemini 8 mission on March 16, 1966. They are assisted by U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen. UPI | License Photo
Dr. Robert H. Goddard's rocket after flight outside of Roswell, N.M., on April 19, 1932. Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fuel rocket on March 16, 1926. File Photo by NASA/UPI
Cadets throw their caps at the end of the West Point graduation ceremony in Michie Stadium at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York on May 28, 2014. Congress authorized the establishment Military Academy on March 16, 1802. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo
Two leathernecks, members of the U.S. 4th Marine Division, stand next to "Old Glory" as they look out over Iwo Jima, part of which still remains under Japanese control, from atop Mount Suribachi on February 25, 1945. Less than a month later, on March 16, 1945, the Island of Iwo Jima was declared secure. File Photo by USMC/UPI
Retiring U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, born today in 1927, is applauded by the Federal Court Justices during ceremonies at the U.S. Courthouse in lower Manhattan which was renamed in his honor for his four decades of public service on December 4, 2000, in New York City. File Photo by Ezio Petersen/UPI | License Photo

Today is Wednesday, March 16, the 76th day of 2016 with 290 to follow.

The moon is waxing. Morning stars are Mercury, Neptune, Saturn. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Uranus and Venus.


Those born on this date are under the sign of Pisces. They include James Madison, fourth president of the United States, in 1751; German physicist Georg Ohm, a pioneer in the study of electricity, in 1789; comedian Henny Youngman in 1906; German doctor Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death," in 1911; former U.S. first lady Pat Nixon in 1912; actor Mercedes McCambridge in 1916; actor Leo McKern in 1920; entertainer Jerry Lewis in 1926 (age 90); former U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., in 1927; filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci in 1940 (age 76); game-show host Chuck Woolery in 1941 (age 75); singer/songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker in 1942 (age 74); actor Erik Estrada in 1949 (age 67); actor Kate Nelligan in 1951 (age 65); musician Nancy Wilson (Heart) in 1954 (age 62); football Hall of Fame member Ozzie Newsome in 1956 (age 60); rapper Flavor Flav (born William Drayton Jr.) in 1959 (age 57); singer/songwriter Patty Griffin in 1964 (age 52); film director Gore Verbinski in 1964 (age 52); actor Alexandra Daddario in 1986 (age 30); musician Wolfgang Van Halen in 1991 (age 24).


On this date in history:

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In 1802, the U.S. Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

In 1827, Freedom's Journal, the first African-American owned and operated newspaper in the United States, was published in New York.

In 1926, Robert Goddard launched the world's first liquid-fuel rocket.

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In 1935, Adolf Hitler denounced the military clauses of the Versailles Treaty and immediately ordered general military conscription in Germany.

In 1945, the Island of Iwo Jima was declared secure by U.S. forces in one of the major World War II conflicts in the Pacific.

In 1956, the Rev. A. Edward Banks became the 25th minister to be arrested for allegedly violating the seldom-used Alabama state anti-boycott law. The boycott of Montgomery, Ala., buses began after Rosa Parks was fined $10 for refusing to surrender her seat to a white person.

In 1966, NASA astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott docked their Gemini 8 space vehicle with an Agena craft, a first in orbital history.

In 1968, about 300 Vietnamese villagers died at the hands of U.S. troops in what came to be known as the My Lai massacre.

In 1984, CIA station chief in Beirut, William Buckley, was kidnapped by members of Hezbollah. His captors claimed that they had executed Buckley on October 4, 1985, though it's believed he died of a heart attack sometime in June 1985, following nearly 15 months of torture.

In 1985, Terry Anderson, Beirut bureau chief for the Associated Press, was kidnapped by members of Hezbollah. He would remain in captivity for more than six years, before finally securing his release on December 4, 1991.

In 1994, the International Atomic Energy Agency said North Korea barred its inspectors from checking one of the nation's seven nuclear sites.

In 2009, Japan reported its gross domestic product fell at a 12.7 percent annual rate in the last quarter of 2008, plunging the country into what experts said was its worst financial crisis since World War II.

In 2014, results of a referendum showed that people in Crimea voted overwhelmingly for the autonomous Black Sea peninsula to break from Ukraine and join Russia.


A thought for the day: Albert Einstein wrote, "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

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  • Albert Einstein
  • Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Chuck Woolery
  • Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • Erik Estrada
  • Georg Ohm
  • Gore Verbinski
  • Iwo Jima
  • James Madison
  • Josef Mengele
  • Nancy Wilson
  • Ozzie Newsome
  • North Korea
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