March 16 - Birthdays!

Happy Birthday Uncle Rodney! 
Happy Birthday Cousin Summer!

Family Birthdays

Rodney Nesvold
Summer Spiller

This Day In History

1244

Fall of Montségur.

1521

Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.

1802

The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.

1926

Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

1958

The Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, a Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.

1966

Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle.

Famous Birthdays

1750

Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (d. 1848)

1751

James Madison, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)

1789

Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist^* (d. 1854)

1822

Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1899)

1846

Jurgis Bielinis, Lithuanian book-smuggler (d. 1918)

1920

Sid Fleischman, American author (d. 2010)

1948

Margaret Weis, American fantasy author

1949

Victor Garber, Canadian actor

1953

Richard Stallman, American free software activist

1971

Alan Tudyk, American actor

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