Today is Sunday, March 16, the 75th day of 2025 with 290 to follow.
The moon is waning. Morning stars are Jupiter and Mars. Evening stars are Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, 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; scientist Georg Ohm in 1789; artist Rosa Bonheur in 1822; U.S. first lady Pat Nixon in 1912; actor Mercedes McCambridge in 1916; actor/musician Jerry Lewis in 1926; former U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1927; filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci in 1940; TV personality Chuck Woolery in 1941; musician Jerry Jeff Walker (Lost Gonzo Band) in 1942; actor Erik Estrada in 1949 (age 76); actor Victor Garber in 1949 (age 76); actor Kate Nelligan in 1950 (age 75); actor Isabelle Huppert in 1953 (age 72); musician Nancy Wilson (Heart) in 1954 (age 71); Football Hall of Fame member Ozzie Newsome in 1956 (age 69); actor Clifton Powell in 1956 (age 69); musician Flavor Flav (Public Enemy) in 1959 (age 66); actor/musician Jerome Flynn in 1963 (age 62); musician Patty Griffin (Band of Joy) in 1964 (age 61); filmmaker Gore Verbinski in 1964 (age 61); Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in 1965 (age 60); actor Lauren Graham in 1967 (age 58); musician Tracy Bonham in 1967 (age 58); actor Judah Friedlander in 1969 (age 56); actor Alan Tudyk in 1971 (age 54); actor Tim Kang in 1973 (age 52); musician Blu Cantrell in 1976 (age 49); actor/model/TV personality Brooke Burns in 1978 (age 47); actor Alexandra Daddario in 1986 (age 39); musician Jhené Aiko in 1988 (age 36); musician Wolfgang Van Halen (Mammoth WVH) in 1991 (age 34); NBA player Joel Embiid in 1994 (age 31); musician Camilo in 1994 (age 31); actor Ajiona Alexus in 1996 (age 29); MLB player Vladimir Guerrero Jr. in 1999 (age 26).
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 Black-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.
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 they executed Buckley on Oct. 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 securing his release on Dec. 4, 1991.
In 1988, President Ronald Reagan ordered 3,200 U.S. troops sent to Honduras in what the White House described as "a measured response" to a Nicaraguan invasion directed against U.S.-backed Contra rebels.
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.
In 2021, a series of shootings at three massage parlors in the Atlanta area left eight people dead. Six of the slain victims were Asian women, prompting questions of whether the shootings were a hate crime amid rising anti-Asian sentiment in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which originated in China. The accused gunman told police he was motivated by a conflict between sexual addiction and his Christianity, and he was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of parole.
In 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden announced another $800 million in military aid for Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelensky made a rare appeal for assistance before a joint session of Congress.
A thought for the day: "Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them." -- Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull
