This Day, That Year – March 16

The first female boxing match occurred between Nelly Saunders and Rose Harland on this day in 1876.

Did you know that:

• Norbert Rillieux was a Louisiana Creole inventor born on this day in 1806, who revolutionized the sugar industry with his multiple-effect evaporator
• Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket on this day in 1926
• The CV-240, the first pressurized, twin-engine airliner, was tested on this day in 1947