Tuesday, March 16, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

MARCH 16
1968:U.S. troops commanded by Lt. William Calley Jr. murder nearly 350 Vietnamese in the village of My Lai. More than a year will pass before the Army investigates.


1802: The U.S. Military Academy at West Point—the school of Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis and Dwight Eisenhower—is established by Congress.

1968:
After weeks of publicly musing his options, Democratic Sen. Robert F. Kennedy announces he will run for president.

1994: Tonya Harding pleads guilty to conspiring to cover up the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, her competitor in figure skating.
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