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April 16
1746The Jacobite uprising in England ends when Charles “Bonnie Prince Charlie” Stuart is defeated by the Duke of Cumberland. 1912Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. 1917Lenin returned to Russia after 10 years in exile in Switzerland. 1947Financier Bernard Baruch coined the term “cold war” in a speech in South Carolina. 1947Most of Texas City, Tex., destroyed when French ship Grandcamp exploded. 1972China sent President Nixon two giant pandas as a gift. 1999Hockey great Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement. 2007A male student, Cho Seung-Hui, killed two in a Virginia Tech dorm, then killed 30 more 2 hours later in a classroom building. His suicide brought the death toll to 33, making the shooting rampage the most deadly in U.S. history. Fifteen others were wounded. 
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