April 16
1746 - The Jacobite uprising in England ends when Charles "Bonnie Prince Charlie" Stuart is defeated by the Duke of Cumberland.
1789 - President-elect George Washington left Mount Vernon, Virginia for his inauguration in New York.
1889 - Actor, comedian and director Charlie Chaplin was born in London.
1912 - Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
1917 - Lenin returned to Russia after 10 years of exile in Switzerland.
1945 - A Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea torpedoed and sank the MV Goya, which Germany was using to transport civilian refugees and wounded soldiers; it's estimated that up to 7,000 people died.
1945 - In his first speech to Congress, President Harry S. Truman pledged to carry out the war and peace policies of his late predecessor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1947 - Most of Texas City, Texas was destroyed when the French cargo ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonimum nitrate, blew up in harbor; a nearby ship, the High Flyer, also carrying ammonium nitrate and sulfur, caught fire and exploded the following day; the blasts and resulting fires killed more than 600 people.
1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in which the civil rights activist responded to a group of local clergymen who had criticized him for leading street protests; King defended his tactics, writing, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
1972 - Apollo 16 blasted off on a voyage to the moon.
1972 - China presented two giant pandas to President Richard Nixon as a gift to the country.
1977 - Alex Haley, author of the best-selling novel "Roots," visited the Gambian village of Juffure, where, he believed, his ancestor Kunte Kinte was captured as a slave in 1767.
1996 - Britain's Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, the Duchess of York, announced they were divorcing.
2007 - Cho Seung-Hui, a student at Virginia Tech University, killed two in a university dorm then killed 30 more two hours later in a classroom building on campus. His suicide brought the death toll to 33, making the shooting rampage the most deadly in U.S. history; 15 others were wounded.
2010 - The U.S government accused Wall Street’s most powerful firm of fraud, saying Goldman Sachs & Co. had sold mortgage investments without telling buyers the securities were crafted with input from a client who was betting on them to fail. (In July 2010, Goldman agreed to pay $550 million in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, but did not admit wrongdoing.)
2013 - Federal agents zeroed in on how the Boston Marathon bombing the day before was carried out — with kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and other lethal shrapnel — but said they didn’t know yet who had done it, or why.
2018 - The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement. Rap star Kendrick Lamar was awarded the Pulitzer for music, becoming the first non-classical or non-jazz artist to win the prize.
2020 - The Trump administration gutted an Obama-era rule that compelled the country’s coal plants to cut back emissions of mercury and other human health hazards.
Birthdays
21 - Sadie Sink (actress)
27 - Anya Taylor-Joy (actress)
28 - Poppy Lee Friar (actress)
29 - Liliana Mumy (actress)
39 - Claire Foy (actress)
47 - Kelli O'Hara (actress/singer)
47 - Lukas Haas (actor)
52 - Peter Billingsley (actor)
55 - Vickie Guerrero (professional wrestler)
58 - Jon Cryer (actor)
58 - Martin Lawrence (actor/comedian)
60 - Jimmy Osmond (singer)
63 - Michel Gill (actor)
69 - Ellen Barkin (actress)
71 - Bill Belichick (football coach)
76 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (basketball player)
88 - Bobby Vinton (singer)
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Today in Sports History - April 16
1939 - The Boston Bruins beat the Toronto Maple Leafs to win the 1938-39 Stanley Cup Championship. It was the first time the best-of-seven series was used. The championship series had been a best-of-five in previous years.
1935 - 40-year-old future Hall of Famer Babe Ruth debuts in the National League with the Boston Braves.
1940 - The first no-hit, no-run game to be thrown on an opening day of the major league baseball season was earned by Bob Feller. The Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
1946 - Mel Ott of the New York Giants hits the 511th and final home run of his career.
1949 - The Toronto Maple Leafs became the first NHL team to win three straight Stanley Cups titles.
1953 - The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup.
1954 - The Detroit Red Wings defeat the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup.
1957 - The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup.
1961 - The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup.
1980 - Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis.
1985 - Mickey Mantle was reinstated after being banned from baseball for several years.
1987 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls becomes the second player in NBA history to score 3,000 points in a season.
1999 - Hockey great Wayne Gretzky announces his retirement.
2003 - Michael Jordan played in his final NBA game with the Washington Wizards, who lost to the Philadelphia 76ers, 107-87.
2013 - NFL player-turned-broadcaster Pat Summerall, 82, died in Dallas.
2019 - Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson becomes the highest-paid player in NFL history, signing a four-year $140 million extension with the Seahawks that included a $65 million signing bonus.
2022 - The first game of the new USFL was played between the Birmingham Stallions and the New Jersey Generals in Birmingham, AL. The game was aired on FOX and NBC.
1746 - The Jacobite uprising in England ends when Charles "Bonnie Prince Charlie" Stuart is defeated by the Duke of Cumberland.
1789 - President-elect George Washington left Mount Vernon, Virginia for his inauguration in New York.
1889 - Actor, comedian and director Charlie Chaplin was born in London.
1912 - Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
1917 - Lenin returned to Russia after 10 years of exile in Switzerland.
1945 - A Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea torpedoed and sank the MV Goya, which Germany was using to transport civilian refugees and wounded soldiers; it's estimated that up to 7,000 people died.
1945 - In his first speech to Congress, President Harry S. Truman pledged to carry out the war and peace policies of his late predecessor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1947 - Most of Texas City, Texas was destroyed when the French cargo ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonimum nitrate, blew up in harbor; a nearby ship, the High Flyer, also carrying ammonium nitrate and sulfur, caught fire and exploded the following day; the blasts and resulting fires killed more than 600 people.
1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in which the civil rights activist responded to a group of local clergymen who had criticized him for leading street protests; King defended his tactics, writing, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
1972 - Apollo 16 blasted off on a voyage to the moon.
1972 - China presented two giant pandas to President Richard Nixon as a gift to the country.
1977 - Alex Haley, author of the best-selling novel "Roots," visited the Gambian village of Juffure, where, he believed, his ancestor Kunte Kinte was captured as a slave in 1767.
1996 - Britain's Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, the Duchess of York, announced they were divorcing.
2007 - Cho Seung-Hui, a student at Virginia Tech University, killed two in a university dorm then killed 30 more two hours later in a classroom building on campus. His suicide brought the death toll to 33, making the shooting rampage the most deadly in U.S. history; 15 others were wounded.
2010 - The U.S government accused Wall Street’s most powerful firm of fraud, saying Goldman Sachs & Co. had sold mortgage investments without telling buyers the securities were crafted with input from a client who was betting on them to fail. (In July 2010, Goldman agreed to pay $550 million in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, but did not admit wrongdoing.)
2013 - Federal agents zeroed in on how the Boston Marathon bombing the day before was carried out — with kitchen pressure cookers packed with explosives, nails and other lethal shrapnel — but said they didn’t know yet who had done it, or why.
2018 - The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for breaking the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement. Rap star Kendrick Lamar was awarded the Pulitzer for music, becoming the first non-classical or non-jazz artist to win the prize.
2020 - The Trump administration gutted an Obama-era rule that compelled the country’s coal plants to cut back emissions of mercury and other human health hazards.
Birthdays
21 - Sadie Sink (actress)
27 - Anya Taylor-Joy (actress)
28 - Poppy Lee Friar (actress)
29 - Liliana Mumy (actress)
39 - Claire Foy (actress)
47 - Kelli O'Hara (actress/singer)
47 - Lukas Haas (actor)
52 - Peter Billingsley (actor)
55 - Vickie Guerrero (professional wrestler)
58 - Jon Cryer (actor)
58 - Martin Lawrence (actor/comedian)
60 - Jimmy Osmond (singer)
63 - Michel Gill (actor)
69 - Ellen Barkin (actress)
71 - Bill Belichick (football coach)
76 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (basketball player)
88 - Bobby Vinton (singer)
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Today in Sports History - April 16
1939 - The Boston Bruins beat the Toronto Maple Leafs to win the 1938-39 Stanley Cup Championship. It was the first time the best-of-seven series was used. The championship series had been a best-of-five in previous years.
1935 - 40-year-old future Hall of Famer Babe Ruth debuts in the National League with the Boston Braves.
1940 - The first no-hit, no-run game to be thrown on an opening day of the major league baseball season was earned by Bob Feller. The Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
1946 - Mel Ott of the New York Giants hits the 511th and final home run of his career.
1949 - The Toronto Maple Leafs became the first NHL team to win three straight Stanley Cups titles.
1953 - The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup.
1954 - The Detroit Red Wings defeat the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup.
1957 - The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Boston Bruins to win the Stanley Cup.
1961 - The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup.
1980 - Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis.
1985 - Mickey Mantle was reinstated after being banned from baseball for several years.
1987 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls becomes the second player in NBA history to score 3,000 points in a season.
1999 - Hockey great Wayne Gretzky announces his retirement.
2003 - Michael Jordan played in his final NBA game with the Washington Wizards, who lost to the Philadelphia 76ers, 107-87.
2013 - NFL player-turned-broadcaster Pat Summerall, 82, died in Dallas.
2019 - Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson becomes the highest-paid player in NFL history, signing a four-year $140 million extension with the Seahawks that included a $65 million signing bonus.
2022 - The first game of the new USFL was played between the Birmingham Stallions and the New Jersey Generals in Birmingham, AL. The game was aired on FOX and NBC.
