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Events 16 March
1850 - The novel, "The Scarlet Letter", by Nathaniel Hawthorne, was published for the first time. Attention: Any sweater with a big letter “A” on it should not be worn today! So, please, put the letter sweaters away for a day, ok? Thank you. In case you forgot, other novels by Mr. Hawthorne included "The House of Seven Gables", "The Marble Faun", "Twice-Told Tales", "Tanglewood Tales" and "The Wonder Book".

1871 - The state of Delaware, the first state to enter the union, enacted the first fertilizer law.

1882 - The U.S. Senate approved a treaty allowing the United States to join the Red Cross.

1934 - The 6th celebration of movieland’s achievements, The Academy Awards for the films of 1932 and 1933, was held at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles with humorist/actor/writer Will Rogers as host. Only one film from 1932 captured honors. Harold C. Lewis of the Paramount Studio Sound Department won the Best Sound/Recording award for "A Farewell to Arms". The Best Picture and Best Director Frank Lloyd) prizes went to the 1933 flick, "Cavalcade" produced by Winfield R. Sheehan. The Best Actor was Charles Laughton in "The Private Life of Henry VIII", and the Best Actress was Katharine Hepburn in "Morning Glory" (1933). This was her first Academy Award, and the last she would receive for 34 years. The second cartoon to take home (to their little brick house) an Oscar was Walt Disney’s "The Three Little Pigs" for Best Short Subjects/Cartoons.

1937 - Former world champion hurdler, Percy Beard, was hired by the Brooklyn Dodgers to teach the faltering baseball team how to run.

1942 - Fats Waller recorded "The Jitterbug Waltz" in New York for Bluebird Records.

1950 - Congress voted to remove federal taxes on oleomargarine.

1955 - "The Ballad of Davy Crockett", by Bill Hayes, reached the number one spot on the pop music charts and stayed for five weeks beginning this day. The smash hit song sold more than 7,000,000 records on more than 20 different labels. Everyone seemed to be singing the song that saluted the frontier hero who was “Born on a mountain top in Tennessee...” Coonskin caps were seen everywhere as the Crockett craze spread like a frontier fire.

1963 - Peter, Paul and Mary released the single, "Puff The Magic Dragon". Through the years, controversy continually surrounded the song. It was banned by several radio stations whose management figured that the song was about the illicit joys of smoking marijuana. The group denied this startling assumption. “It’s about a magic dragon named Puff,” they said. So there. The trio recorded a dozen hits that charted between 1962 and 1969. "Puff" was their third song. It went to number two on the pop charts and puffed around for nearly three months. The group next did a Bob Dylan protest song, "Blowin’ in the Wind" and ended a sterling career with a John Denver song -- the group’s biggest -- "Leaving on a Jet Plane".

1964 - Paul Hornung, ‘The Golden Boy’, and Alex Karras, the guy who punched out a horse in the movie, "Blazing Saddles", were reinstated to the NFL after an 11-month suspension for betting on football games.

1985 - "A Chorus Line" played performance number 4,000 this night at New York’s famed Shubert Theatre. The show originally opened in July,

1975, and became the longest-running show to light up the Great White Way in September, 1983.

1987 - "Bostonia" magazine printed an English translation of Albert Einstein’s last high school report card. The brain behind the theory of relativity did relatively well with an ‘A’ in math, of course, but a ‘D’ in French.

Birthdays - March 16
1751 - James Madison (4th U.S. President [1809-1817]; married to Dorothea ‘Dolly’ Todd; nickname: Father of the Constitution; died Jun 28, 1836)

1822 - Rosa Bonheur (artist: famous for her animal paintings: The Horse Fair; 1st woman to be awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion d’Honneur; died May 25, 1899)

1897 - Conrad Nagel (actor: The Mysterious Lady, The Kiss, The Divorcee; died Feb 24, 1970)

1906 - Henny (Henry) Youngman (comedian: “Take my wife ... please.”, Joe & Dad, The Henny and Rocky Show; actor: Amazon Women on the Moon, National Lampoon Goes to the Movies, The Unkissed Bride, Goodfellas [cameo]; died Feb 24, 1998)

1912 - Pat Nixon (Ryan) (former U.S. First Lady: Married to 37th U.S. President Richard M. Nixon; died Jun 22, 1993)

1920 - Leo McKern (actor: A Foreign Field, The Mouse that Roared, A Man for All Seasons, Help, Rumpole of the Bailey, Ladyhawke, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, The Blue Lagoon, Ryan’s Daughter; died Jul 23, 2002)

1926 - Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch) (‘King of Crazy’: comedian, entertainer: Martin & Lewis; actor: That’s My Boy, The Caddy, The Nutty Professor; singer: Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody; fund raiser: Muscular Dystrophy Association)

1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan (U.S. Senator from New York; died Mar 26, 2003)

1927 - Ruby (Reuben) Braff (modern jazz musician: trumpet, cornet; actor: Pipe Dream; died Feb 9, 2003)

1930 - Hobie (Hobert Neal) Landrith (baseball: catcher: Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Redlegs, Chicago Cubs, SL Cardinals, SF Giants, Baltimore Orioles, NY Mets, Washington Senators)

1932 - Don (Lee) Blasingame (baseball: SL Cardinals [all-star: 1958], SF Giants, Cincinnati Reds [World Series: 1961], Washington Senators, KC Athletics; died Apr 13, 2005)

1932 - R. Walter Cunningham (astronaut: Apollo 7 mission [circled Earth 173 times: Oct, 1968]; chief of Skylab applications program [supervised development and design])

1932 - Betty Johnson (singer: I Dreamed, Little White Lies, The Little Blue Man, Dream)

1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci (Academy Award-winning director: The Last Emperor [1987]; Stealing Beauty, Little Buddha, Once Upon a Time in the West, Last Tango in Paris, The Grim Reaper)

1942 - Roger Crozier (hockey: NHL: Detroit Red Wings [Stanley Cup playoff MVP: 1966], Buffalo Sabres, Washington Capitals; died Jan 11, 1996)

1942 - MacArthur Lane (football: Green Bay Packers)

1942 - Jerry Jeff Walker (Paul Crosby) (country singer, guitarist: Mr. Bojangles, Good Loving Grace, My Old Man, Hill Country Rain, Charlie Dunn)

1947 - Tom (Thomas William) Bradley (baseball: pitcher: California Angels, Chicago White Sox, SF Giants)

1949 - Erik Estrada (actor: C.H.I.P.S., Twisted Justice, Night of the Wilding, Caged Fury, The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission)

1950 - Kate Nelligan (actress: Up Close and Personal, Fatal Instinct, Eye of the Needle, Frankie and Johnny, The Prince of Tides, Dracula, The Count of Monte Cristo)

1950 - Tim Stokes (football: Univ of Oregon, LA Rams)

1951 - Brian McKenzie (hockey: NHL: Pittsburgh Penguins)

1953 - Isabelle Huppert (actress: Le Ceremonie, The Separation, Violette, Story of Women, Entre Nous)

1954 - Hollis Stacy (golf champion: U.S. Open [1977, 1978, 1984]; Du Maurier Classic [1983])