Today in History: March 16
1802 - Law signed to establish US Milt Academy (West Point, NY)
1830 - New York Stock Exchange slowest day ever (31 shares traded)
1861 - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
1897 - Start of Sherlock Holmes “The Adventure of The Devil’s Foot” (BG)
1915 - Federal Trade Commission organizes
1935 - Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
1939 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
1955 - President Eisenhower upheld the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1972 - John & Yoko are served with deportation papers
1978 - US Senate accepts Panama Canal treaty
1988 - Federal grand jury indicts North & Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair
1994 - Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1995 - Mississippi formally abolishes slavery & ratifies 13th Amendment
