From Historynet: Today in History March 16

37               On a trip to the Italian mainland from his home on Capreae, the emperor Tiberius  dies on the Bay of Naples.

1190          The Crusades begin the massacre of Jews in York, England.

1527          The Emperor Babur  defeats the Rajputs at the Battle of Khanwa, removing the main Hindu rivals in Northern India.

1621          The first Indian appears to colonists in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

1833          Susan Hayhurst  becomes the first woman to graduate from a pharmacy college.

1850          Nathaniel Hawthorne's  The Scarlet Letter is published.

1865          Union troops push past Confederate blockers at the Battle of Averasborough, N.C.

1907          The British cruiser Invincible, the world's largest, is completed at Glasgow shipyards.

1913          The 15,000-ton battleship Pennsylvania is launched at Newport News, Va.

1917          Russian Czar Nicholas II  abdicates his throne.

1926          Physicist Robert H. Goddard  launches the first liquid-fuel rocket.

1928          The United States plans to send 1,000 more Marines to Nicaragua.

1935          Adolf Hitler  orders a German rearmament and violates the Versailles Treaty.

1939          Germany occupies the rest of Czechoslovakia.

1945          Iwo Jima is declared secure by U.S. forces although small pockets of Japanese resistance still exist.

1954          CBS introduces The Morning Show hosted by 

Walter Cronkite  to compete with NBC's Today Show.

1964          President Lyndon B. Johnson  submits a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress.

1968          U.S. troops in Vietnam destroy a village consisting mostly of women and children, the action is remembered as the My-Lai massacre.

1984          Mozambique and South Africa sign a pact banning support for one another's internal foes.

1985          Associated Press newsman, 

Terry Anderson  is taken hostage in Beirut.