March 16

On This Day In History
	1968: My Lai Massacre On this day in 1968, during the Vietnam War, U.S. soldiers dispatched on a search-and-destroy mission killed as many as 500 unarmed villagers in the hamlet of My Lai, considered a stronghold of the Viet Cong.
Vietnamese citizens photographed during the My Lai Massacre, March 16, 1968
Biography Of The Day
	James Madison Born this day in 1751, James Madison, the fourth U.S. president and an architect of the U.S. Constitution and its ratification, collaborated in the publication of the Federalist papers and sponsored the Bill of Rights.
James Madison, detail of an oil painting by Asher B. Durand, 1833
More Events On This Day In History
	1945 U.S. Marines captured the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during World War II.
	1926 American inventor Robert H. Goddard launched the first successful liquid-propellant rocket.
1921	1921 The Treaty of Moscow established friendly relations between the nationalist government of Turkey and the Soviet Union.
	1850 American author Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter was published.
	1802 The United States Military Academy at West Point, New York—one of the oldest service academies in the world—was originally founded as a training centre for the U.S. Corps of Engineers.
	1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, sailing under the Spanish flag on his circumnavigation of the globe, reached the Philippines, securing the first alliance in the Pacific Islands for Spain.