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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48070)3/16/2005 7:15:31 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 50167
 
Today in history-March 16:

1521 - Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines.

1815 - William I proclaimed himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.

1900 - The ruins of Knossos, a major centre of the Minoan civilization and the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete, were purchased by Sir Arthur Evans for excavations.

1968 - Vietnam War: American soldiers killed 347 civilians in My Lai, Vietnam.

1978 - Former Prime Minister of Italy Aldo Moro was kidnapped in Rome by the Red Brigades