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On this day, March 16: The Congress is building West Point

1 of 6 | President George W. Bush observes how the graduates raise their hats in the Michie Stadium for the final ceremony of the US military academy in West Point, NY, on May 27, 2006. On March 16, 1802, the US Military Academy in West Point, NY Photo by John Angelillo/Upi/Upi | License photo

March 16 (Upi) – On this date in history:

In 1802 the US Military Academy in West Point approved the US Military Academy, NY

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

In 1926 Robert Goddard started the world's first fluid fuel rocket.

In 1935 Adolf Hitler condemned the military clauses of the Versailles contract and immediately ordered the general military military compulsory in Germany.

In 1945, the island of IWO Jima was safely declared by the US armed forces in one of the great conflicts of the Second World War in the Pacific.

In 1956 Rev. A. Edward Banks became the 25th minister who was arrested because he allegedly violated Alabama's rarely used anti-Boycott law. The boycott of Montgomery, Ala, began the buses after Rosa Parks had finished a fine of 10 US dollars because she had refused to hand over 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.

Foto with the kind permission of NASA

In 1968, around 300 Vietnamese villagers died in the hands of US troops in what became known as my Lai massacre.

In 1984 Cia Station Chief was kidnapped by members of the Hisbollah. His kidnappers claimed that they had executed Buckley on October 4, 1985, although he believed that he died of a heart attack after almost 15 months in June 1985.

In 1985 Terry Anderson, head of the Birrut Bureau for The Associated Press, was kidnapped by members of the Hisbollah. He would stay in captivity for more than six years before securing his release on December 4, 1991.

In 1988 President Ronald Reagan ordered 3,200 US troops who were sent in Honduras, which the White House described as a “measured reaction” on a Nicaraguan invasion against US-supported contra rebels.

File photo from Cliff Owen/Upi

In 1994 the international nuclear energy authority announced that North Korea had excluded its inspectors from the review of one of the seven core locations in the country.

In 2009, Japan reported that his gross domestic product has dropped an annual rate of 12.7 percent in the last quarter of 2008, which the country has entered into the worst financial crisis since World War II.

In 2014, the results of a referendum showed that people in Crimea mostly voted that the autonomous black marine isola breaks off from Ukraine and connects Russia.

In 2021, a number of shootings in three massage salons in the Atlanta area left eight people dead. Six of the murdered victims were Asian women who applied for whether the shootings were a hate crime in the middle of the increasing antisian mood in response to the Covid-19 pandemy, which came from China. The accused shooter told the police that he was motivated by a conflict between sexual addiction and his Christianity, and he was sentenced to life in prison without the chance of probation.

In 2022, US President Joe Biden announced another 800 million dollar of military aid for Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelensky initiated rare help in front of a joint congress meeting.

File photo by J. Scott AppleWhite/Upi