function makeArray(len) { for (var i = 0; i < len; i++) this[i] = null; this.length = len; } tinh= new makeArray(19); tinh[0]='March 16'; tinh[1]='

1521<\/h4>Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines, where he was killed by natives the following month.'; tinh[2]='

1751<\/h4>James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, was born in Port Conway, Va.'; tinh[3]='

1802<\/h4>Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.'; tinh[4]='

1836<\/h4>The Republic of Texas approved a constitution.'; tinh[5]='

1850<\/h4>"The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne was published.'; tinh[6]='

1868<\/h4> Maxim Gorky, a Russian writer of short stories, novels and plays, was born (d. June 14, 1936).'; tinh[7]='

1926<\/h4>The first liquid-fuel rocket was successfully launched by Prof. Robert Goddard at Auburn, Massachusetts. The rocket traveled 184 feet in 2.5 seconds.'; tinh[8]='

1935<\/h4>Adolf Hitler cancelled the military clauses of the Treaty of Versailles.'; tinh[9]='

1968<\/h4> During the Vietnam War, the My Lai Massacre was carried out by United States troops under the command of Lt. William L. Calley Jr.'; tinh[10]='

1978<\/h4>Italian politician Aldo Moro was kidnapped, and later murdered, by the Red Brigades.'; tinh[11]='

1984<\/h4>William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, was kidnapped by gunmen.'; tinh[12]='

1985<\/h4>Terry Anderson, chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, was abducted in Beirut.'; tinh[13]='

1988<\/h4>Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North and Vice Admiral John M. Poindexter of the National Security Council are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States for their role in the Iran-contra affair.'; tinh[14]='

1998<\/h4>The Vatican expressed remorse for the cowardice of some Christians during the Holocaust, but defended the actions of Pope Pius XII.'; tinh[15]='

2003<\/h4>Vice President Dick Cheney predicted on NBC\'s "Meet the Press" that American troops would be "greeted as liberators" by the Iraqi people.'; tinh[16]='

2003<\/h4>Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old American, was killed when she was run over by a bulldozer while trying to block Israeli troops from demolishing a Palestinian home in Gaza.'; tinh[17]='

2005<\/h4>A judge in Redwood City, Calif., sent Scott Peterson to death row for the slaying of his pregnant wife, Laci.'; tinh[18]='

2008<\/h4>Protests spread from Tibet into three neighboring provinces; the Dalai Lama decried what he called the "cultural genocide" taking place in his homeland.';