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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

This will be 106th day of the year and 259 days will remain in the year.


April 16 Birthdays

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(Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin), 1889–1977, English film actor, director, producer, writer, and composer, born in London.

Wilbur Wright
airplane inventor (1867)

 John Millington Synge
dramatist (1871)

 Merce Cunningham
choreographer (1919)

 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
basketball player (1947)

 Selena Quintanilla Perez
singer (1971)

April 16 in History

1746

The Jacobite uprising in England ends when Charles “Bonnie Prince Charlie” Stuart is defeated by the Duke of Cumberland.

1912

Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.

1917

Lenin returned to Russia after 10 years in exile in Switzerland.

1947

Financier Bernard Baruch coined the term “cold war” in a speech in South Carolina.

1947

Most of Texas City, Tex., destroyed when French ship Grandcamp exploded.

1972

China sent President Nixon two giant pandas as a gift.

1999

Hockey great Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement.

2007

A 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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