This Day in History " March 16 "

Events

1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovered the Philippines.
1534- England cut its ties with the Catholic Church.
1906- nationalization of the railways in Japan.
1926- the world American Robert Hutchings Goddard launches the first rocket works The liquid fuel in the world.
1935 Hitler impose compulsory military service contrary to the "Versailles" treaty that ended the First World War.
1938- the extraction of oil for the first time in Saudi Arabia.
1939- Nazi Germany occupies Czechoslovakia in World War II.
1966- Alomarkiyan astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott are based first docking in space.
1978 - Red Brigades organization kidnaps former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro.
1986 more than 76% of Swiss reject in a referendum to join the United Nations.
1990 - The Soviet Union and the Vatican had diplomatic relations between their two countries.
2003 - the killing of American activist Rachel Corrie after run over by an Israeli bulldozer after he stood with her face to prevent it from demolishing a Palestinian home in Rafah, Gaza.
2006 United Nations General Assembly decided to establish a Human Rights Council.

Famous Birthdays

1751 - James Madison, the fourth president of the United States.
1789 - Georg Ohm, a German physics.
1839 - Sully Prudhomme, French writer Nobel Prize in literature in 1901.
1927 - Vladimir Komarov, a Soviet space pioneer.
1959 - Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway.
1989 - Theo Walcott, footballer English.

Mortality

1406 - Ibn Khaldun, historian and scholar Arab meeting.
1914 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician Nobel Peace Prize in 1902.
1935 - John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish scientist Physiology Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1923.
1940 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer holds a Nobel Prize in literature in 1909.
1998 - Derek Barton, a British chemist holds a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1969.