March 16, 1751 - James Madison, 4th president, is born.

March 16, 1802 - The U.S. Military Academy is founded at West Point. Its purpose is to train young men in the theory and practice of military science.

March 16, 1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, The Scarlet Letter, is published.

March 16, 1882 - The treaty allowing the United States to join the Red Cross was approved by the U.S. Senate.

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March 16, 1883 - The first female pharmacist graduates from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.

March 16, 1945 - The island of Iwo Jima, located in the Pacific, is taken by U.S. Marines during WW II.

March 16, 1968 - An American platoon massacres hundreds of civilian villagers at My Lai village in South Vietnam.

March 16, 1985 - Terry Anderson, Associated Press journalist, is kidnapped by Islamic militants in Beirut.
 

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war." - Douglas MacArthur