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 City.
1912 - Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
1917 - Vladimir Ilyich 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 - America's worst harbor explosion occurred in Texas City, Texas, when the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up, devastating the town. Another ship, the Highflyer, exploded the following day. The explosions and resulting fires killed more than 500 people and left 200 others missing.
1947 - Financier and presidential confidant Bernard M. Baruch said in a speech at the South Carolina statehouse, "Let us not be deceived. We are today in the midst of a cold war."
1962 - Walter Cronkite succeeded Douglas Edwards as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."
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 - China sent President Richard Nixon two giant pandas as a gift.
1972 - Apollo 16 blasted off on a mission to the moon.
1977 - Alex Haley, author of the best-seller “Roots,” visited the Gambian village of Juffure, where, he believed, his ancestor Kunte Kinte was captured as a slave in 1767.
1992 - The House ethics committee listed 303 current and former lawmakers who had overdrawn their House bank accounts.
1996 - Britain's Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, the Duchess of York, announced their divorce.
2007 - Cho Seung-Hui killed two in a Virginia Tech dorm, then killed 30 more two hours later in a classroom building. Along with his suicide, the death toll of 33 was the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.
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.)
2017 - U.S. officials said a North Korean medium-range missile exploded seconds after launch, a high-profile failure that came hours before U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrived in South Korea for a visit at the start of a 10-day trip to Asia.
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.
2021 - Jon Ryan Schaffer, a member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and a heavy metal guitarist, became the first defendant to plead guilty to federal charges in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
2021 - Raul Castro said he was stepping down as Cuban Communist Party leader, leaving the island without a Castro guiding affairs for the first time in more than six decades.
2021 - Iran began enriching uranium to its highest-ever purity, edging the country closer to weapons-grade levels as Iran tried to pressure negotiators in talks on restoring its nuclear deal with world powers.
Birthdays
20 - Sadie Sink (actress)
26 - Anya Taylor-Joy (actress)
27 - Poppy Lee Friar (actress)
29 - Chance The Rapper (rapper)
38 - Claire Foy (actress)
46 - Kelli O'Hara (actress/singer)
46 - Lukas Haas (actor)
51 - Peter Billingsley (actor)
54 - Vicki Guerrero (professional wrestler)
57 - Jon Cryer (actor)
57 - Martin Lawrence (actor/comedian)
59 - Jimmy Osmond (singer)
62 - Michel Gill (actor)
68 - Ellen Barkin (actress)
69 - Peter Garrett (singer)
70 - Bill Belichick (football coach)
75 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (basketball player)
87 - Bobby Vinton (singer)
95 - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
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Today in Sports History - April 16
1929 - The New York Yankees became the first MLB team to permanently feature numbers on the backs of uniforms. (The numbers corresponded to position in the batting order.)
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.
1949 - The Toronto Maple Leafs became the first NHL team to win three straight Stanley Cups titles.
1985 - Mickey Mantle was reinstated after being banned from baseball for several years.
1987 - Michael Jordan became just the second player in NBA history to score 3,000 points in a season.
1999 - Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement from hockey.
2003 - Michael Jordan played in his final game as his Washington Wizards ended their season with a loss to the Philadelphia 76ers.
2019 - Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks became the highest-paid player in NFL history, signing a 4-year, $140 million extension that included a $65 million signing bonus.
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 City.
1912 - Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
1917 - Vladimir Ilyich 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 - America's worst harbor explosion occurred in Texas City, Texas, when the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up, devastating the town. Another ship, the Highflyer, exploded the following day. The explosions and resulting fires killed more than 500 people and left 200 others missing.
1947 - Financier and presidential confidant Bernard M. Baruch said in a speech at the South Carolina statehouse, "Let us not be deceived. We are today in the midst of a cold war."
1962 - Walter Cronkite succeeded Douglas Edwards as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."
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 - China sent President Richard Nixon two giant pandas as a gift.
1972 - Apollo 16 blasted off on a mission to the moon.
1977 - Alex Haley, author of the best-seller “Roots,” visited the Gambian village of Juffure, where, he believed, his ancestor Kunte Kinte was captured as a slave in 1767.
1992 - The House ethics committee listed 303 current and former lawmakers who had overdrawn their House bank accounts.
1996 - Britain's Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, the Duchess of York, announced their divorce.
2007 - Cho Seung-Hui killed two in a Virginia Tech dorm, then killed 30 more two hours later in a classroom building. Along with his suicide, the death toll of 33 was the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.
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.)
2017 - U.S. officials said a North Korean medium-range missile exploded seconds after launch, a high-profile failure that came hours before U.S. Vice President Mike Pence arrived in South Korea for a visit at the start of a 10-day trip to Asia.
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.
2021 - Jon Ryan Schaffer, a member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and a heavy metal guitarist, became the first defendant to plead guilty to federal charges in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
2021 - Raul Castro said he was stepping down as Cuban Communist Party leader, leaving the island without a Castro guiding affairs for the first time in more than six decades.
2021 - Iran began enriching uranium to its highest-ever purity, edging the country closer to weapons-grade levels as Iran tried to pressure negotiators in talks on restoring its nuclear deal with world powers.
Birthdays
20 - Sadie Sink (actress)
26 - Anya Taylor-Joy (actress)
27 - Poppy Lee Friar (actress)
29 - Chance The Rapper (rapper)
38 - Claire Foy (actress)
46 - Kelli O'Hara (actress/singer)
46 - Lukas Haas (actor)
51 - Peter Billingsley (actor)
54 - Vicki Guerrero (professional wrestler)
57 - Jon Cryer (actor)
57 - Martin Lawrence (actor/comedian)
59 - Jimmy Osmond (singer)
62 - Michel Gill (actor)
68 - Ellen Barkin (actress)
69 - Peter Garrett (singer)
70 - Bill Belichick (football coach)
75 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (basketball player)
87 - Bobby Vinton (singer)
95 - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
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Today in Sports History - April 16
1929 - The New York Yankees became the first MLB team to permanently feature numbers on the backs of uniforms. (The numbers corresponded to position in the batting order.)
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.
1949 - The Toronto Maple Leafs became the first NHL team to win three straight Stanley Cups titles.
1985 - Mickey Mantle was reinstated after being banned from baseball for several years.
1987 - Michael Jordan became just the second player in NBA history to score 3,000 points in a season.
1999 - Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement from hockey.
2003 - Michael Jordan played in his final game as his Washington Wizards ended their season with a loss to the Philadelphia 76ers.
2019 - Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks became the highest-paid player in NFL history, signing a 4-year, $140 million extension that included a $65 million signing bonus.
