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
