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Events on the 16th of April in history

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16 Apr 1973 Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Great Jewish Revolt.
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16 Apr 0556 Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
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16 Apr 1346 Dušan the Mighty is proclaimed Emperor, with the Serbian Empire occupying much of the Balkans.
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16 Apr 1346 King Stefanus IX of Serbia proclaims himself czar of Greece
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16 Apr 1457 Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
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16 Apr 1509 French army under Louis XII enters Alps
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16 Apr 1520 The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
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16 Apr 1521 Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire.
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16 Apr 1521 Martin Luther arrives at Diet of Worms
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16 Apr 1582 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
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16 Apr 1632 Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed supreme commander
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16 Apr 1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
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16 Apr 1724 1st Easter observed (OS=Apr 9)
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16 Apr 1724 1st Easter observed
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16 Apr 1746 Battle at Culloden: Troops of "James VIII & III" defeat Charles Stuart
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16 Apr 1746 The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
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16 Apr 1777 Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout British
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16 Apr 1780 The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
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16 Apr 1787 1st American comedy, "The Contrast, " made its debut in New York City
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16 Apr 1787 1st American comedy, "The Contrast", makes its debut in NYC
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16 Apr 1789 George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration
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16 Apr 1799 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
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16 Apr 1818 The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
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16 Apr 1818 Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot amendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
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16 Apr 1847 The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.
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16 Apr 1849 Opera "Il Profeta, " premieres in Paris
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16 Apr 1849 The opera "Il Profeta" premieres (Paris France)
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16 Apr 1853 The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
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16 Apr 1854 Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die
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16 Apr 1854 San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
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16 Apr 1854 Franz Liszt's "Mazeppa", premieres
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16 Apr 1858 The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
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16 Apr 1861 US President Abraham Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states
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16 Apr 1862 US Confederate Congress calls up all white males (18-35 years)
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16 Apr 1862 American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
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16 Apr 1862 American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
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16 Apr 1862 Confederate President Jefferson Davis approves conscription act for white males between 18-35
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16 Apr 1862 Slavery abolished in District of Columbia
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16 Apr 1863 American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg: Ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
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16 Apr 1865 Battle of Columbus and West Point, Georgia (Ft Tyler)
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16 Apr 1866 Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo & Company office explodes
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16 Apr 1866 Karakozov attempts to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia
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16 Apr 1868 Louisiana voters approve new constitution
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16 Apr 1869 Ebenezer Bassett, 1st US Negro diplomat, begins service in Haiti
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16 Apr 1870 Vaudeville Theatre Strand opens in London
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16 Apr 1871 German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions
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16 Apr 1874 Dr David Livingstones corpse arrives in Southampton
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16 Apr 1881 In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
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16 Apr 1883 Paul Kruger chosen President of Transvaal
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16 Apr 1888 Drentse & Friese peat cutters go on strike
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16 Apr 1894 Manchester City F.C. was formed from Ardwick A.F.C..
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16 Apr 1900 US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
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16 Apr 1908 Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
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16 Apr 1908 Natural Bridges National Monument established (Lake Powell UT)
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16 Apr 1910 The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
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16 Apr 1912 Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
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16 Apr 1912 Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to cross the English Channel
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16 Apr 1912 Pittsburgh Pirates turn a rare 5-3-7 doubleplay (left fielder covers 2nd base)
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16 Apr 1917 Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia from exile in Switzerland.
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16 Apr 1917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
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16 Apr 1919 Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
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16 Apr 1919 Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
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16 Apr 1921 Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague
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16 Apr 1922 The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
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16 Apr 1922 Annie Oakley sets record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row
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16 Apr 1922 German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized
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16 Apr 1924 1st radio-transmission of wireless Matth
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16 Apr 1924 Child labor laws strengthened in Holland
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16 Apr 1925 During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
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16 Apr 1926 Book of the Month Club sends out its 1st selections "Lolly Willowes" and"Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend Warner
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16 Apr 1929 New York Yankees become 1st team to wear uniform numbers
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16 Apr 1929 Cleveland Indian Earl Averill, becomes 1st in American League to hit a homerun on 1st at bat
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16 Apr 1929 New York Yankees become 1st team to use numbers on uniforms
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16 Apr 1935 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
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16 Apr 1935 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
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16 Apr 1935 Babe Ruth's 1st National League game, for Boston Braves, included a homerun
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16 Apr 1938 Great-Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia
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16 Apr 1939 Stalin requests British, French & Russian anti-nazi pact
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16 Apr 1939 Stanley Cup Boston Bruins beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1
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16 Apr 1940 Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1–0.
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16 Apr 1940 1st televised baseball game, WGN-TV, (White Sox vs Cubs exhibition)
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16 Apr 1940 Cleveland Indian Bob Feller hurls an opening day no-hitter vs Chicago, 1-0
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16 Apr 1940 Heitor Villa-Lobos' opera "Izaht", premieres in Rio de Janeiro
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16 Apr 1941 World War II: The Ustaše, a Croatian far-right organization is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers after the Axis Operation 25 invasion.
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16 Apr 1941 World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
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16 Apr 1941 Little Theater at Adelphi Strand closes
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16 Apr 1942 Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship
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16 Apr 1942 King George VI awards George Cross to Island of Malta
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16 Apr 1943 40 New Zealand bombers attack Haarlem Netherlands (85 killed)
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16 Apr 1944 World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
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16 Apr 1945 US troops enter Nuremberg, Germany, during WWII
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16 Apr 1945 More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
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16 Apr 1945 The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
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16 Apr 1945 World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
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16 Apr 1945 German troops in Groningen surrender
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16 Apr 1945 Red Army begins Battle of Berlin
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16 Apr 1945 US troops land on He Shima Okinawa
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16 Apr 1946 1st US launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands NM; 8 km altitude
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16 Apr 1946 NSB mayor of Rotterdam Netherlands, FE M
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16 Apr 1947 Massive explosion and fire kills 522 in Texas City, Texas
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16 Apr 1947 Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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16 Apr 1947 Texas City disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
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16 Apr 1947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (New York NY)
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16 Apr 1947 Explosions & fire on French ship Grandcamp
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16 Apr 1948 Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris France
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16 Apr 1949 Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
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16 Apr 1951 British submarine Affray sank in English Channel, killing 75
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16 Apr 1952 "4 Saints in 3 Acts" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 15 performances
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16 Apr 1953 Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia.
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16 Apr 1953 Phillie's Connie Ryan gets 6 hits in a game
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16 Apr 1953 British royal yacht Britannica taken out of service
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16 Apr 1953 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Palm Springs Golf Open
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16 Apr 1953 WAND TV channel 17 in Decatur IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
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16 Apr 1954 KVAL TV channel 13 in Eugene OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
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16 Apr 1954 Stanley Cup Detroit Red Wings beat Montr
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16 Apr 1956 1st solar powered radios go on sale
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16 Apr 1957 Stanley Cup Montr
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16 Apr 1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
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16 Apr 1958 22nd Golf Masters Championship Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 284
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16 Apr 1958 French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis
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16 Apr 1959 "Party with Comden & Green" opens at John Golden NYC for 44 performances
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16 Apr 1959 New York Yankees unveil their 1st message scoreboard
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16 Apr 1959 Phillies' Dave Philley gets a major league record 9th straight pinch hit
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16 Apr 1959 Datu Abdul Rozak inaugurated as premier of Malaysia federation
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16 Apr 1961 In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
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16 Apr 1961 15th Tony Awards Becket & Bye Bye Birdie win
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16 Apr 1961 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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16 Apr 1961 Stanley Cup Chicago Blackhawks beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2
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16 Apr 1962 Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become "the most trusted man in America".
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16 Apr 1962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
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16 Apr 1962 Brazil nationalizes US businesses
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16 Apr 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
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16 Apr 1964 Geraldine Mock of US is 1st woman to fly solo round the world
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16 Apr 1964 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery"
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16 Apr 1965 Test flight of heavy Saturn S-1C-rocket
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16 Apr 1966 Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain
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16 Apr 1967 "Walking Happy" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances
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16 Apr 1967 Yankees beat Boston 7-6 in 18 innings
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16 Apr 1970 70 die in a snow crush (France)
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16 Apr 1970 70 die in an avalanche (France)
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16 Apr 1972 2 giants pandas arrive in US, from China
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16 Apr 1972 China sends 2 giant pandas to US
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16 Apr 1972 Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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16 Apr 1972 2 giants pandas (Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing) arrive in the US, from China
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16 Apr 1972 Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
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16 Apr 1972 Chicago Cub Burt Hooton no-hits Phillies, 1-0
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16 Apr 1972 "That's Entertainment" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 4 performances
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16 Apr 1972 1st Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jane Blalock
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16 Apr 1974 "Words & Music" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 127 performances
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16 Apr 1974 200,000 attend rock concert California Jam I in Ontario, California
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16 Apr 1974 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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16 Apr 1975 Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh
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16 Apr 1977 Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia
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16 Apr 1978 "History of the American Film" closes at ANTA NYC after 21 performances
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16 Apr 1978 St Louis Cardinal Bob Forsch no-hits Phillies, 5-0
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16 Apr 1978 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA Birmingham Golf Classic
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16 Apr 1979 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child"
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16 Apr 1979 15th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees & Mets tie 1-1
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16 Apr 1979 83rd Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of Massachusetts in 2:09:27
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16 Apr 1979 8th Boston Women's Marathon won by Joan Benoit Samuelson in 2:35:15
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16 Apr 1979 Failed Palestinian attack on Zaventem Airport in Belgium
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16 Apr 1980 Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis
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16 Apr 1980 Delhi beat Bombay by 240 runs to win Ranji Trophy final
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16 Apr 1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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16 Apr 1981 "Copperfield" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 13 performances
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16 Apr 1981 Columbia space shuttle returns [04 / 24]
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16 Apr 1982 Queen Elizabeth proclaims Canada's new constitution
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16 Apr 1983 Steve Garvey sets National League record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games
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16 Apr 1984 Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for "American Primitive"
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16 Apr 1984 13th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lorraine Moller of New Zealand in 2:29:28
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16 Apr 1984 88th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:10:34
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16 Apr 1984 Oakland A Dave Kingman hits 3 homeruns including a grand slam
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16 Apr 1985 "Grind" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 79 performances
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16 Apr 1985 Caps 1-Isles 2 - Patrick Division Semifinals - Isle win series 3-2
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16 Apr 1985 Washington Capitals 1-New York Islanders 2-Patrick Division Semifinals-Islanders win series 3-2
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16 Apr 1986 To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Qadhafi appears on TV
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16 Apr 1986 West Indies complete 5-0 demolition of England
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16 Apr 1987 Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences"
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16 Apr 1987 FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves
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16 Apr 1987 Michael Jordan, becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000 points in a season
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16 Apr 1987 Peter Taylor's "Summons to Memphis" wins Pulitzer Prize for fiction
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16 Apr 1987 Howard Stern & Infinity Broadcasting are warned by FCC
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16 Apr 1989 Costa Rica beats US 1-0, in 3rd round of 1990 world soccer cup
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16 Apr 1989 1st Seniors Golf Tradition Don Bies wins
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16 Apr 1989 Berendrechtsluis opens in Antwerp, biggest flood lock in world
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16 Apr 1989 Pat Bradley wins LPGA AI Star/Centinela Hospital Golf Classic
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16 Apr 1989 Zeleka Metaferia wins 3rd World Cup marathon (2:10:28)
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16 Apr 1990 "Piano Lesson" opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC for 320 performances
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16 Apr 1990 The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
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16 Apr 1990 Maximum New York State unemployment benefits raised to $260 per week
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16 Apr 1990 19th Boston Women's Marathon won by Rosa Mota of Portugal in 2:25:23
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16 Apr 1990 94th Boston Marathon won by Gelindo Bordin of Italy in 2:08:19
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16 Apr 1990 Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977
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16 Apr 1991 Mike Leander & Edward Seago's musical "Matador", premieres in London
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16 Apr 1991 St Louis Blues becomes 8th NHL team in Play-off to come back from a 3-1 deficit as they beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-2 in game 7
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16 Apr 1992 "Metro" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 13 performances
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16 Apr 1992 Afghanistan President Najibullah resigns
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16 Apr 1992 The Katina P runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
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16 Apr 1992 1st concrete is poured at new ballpark at Gateway (Jacobs Field)
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16 Apr 1992 Afgh
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16 Apr 1992 New York Rangers win team record 50th game
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16 Apr 1993 Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th
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16 Apr 1994 Circus performers Marissa Young (24) & Matt Richardson (21) wed
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16 Apr 1994 Singer Harry Connick Jr (26) weds model Jill Goodacre (30)
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16 Apr 1995 George W. Bush names April 16 as Selena Day in Texas, after she was killed two weeks earlier.
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16 Apr 1995 56th PGA Seniors Golf Championship Ray Floyd wins
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16 Apr 1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Minneapolis/St Paul MN on WRQC 100.3 FM
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16 Apr 2001 India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
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16 Apr 2003 The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
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16 Apr 2007 Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
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16 Apr 2012 The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
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16 Apr 2012 The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
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16 Apr 2013 A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
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16 Apr 2014 The MV Sewol ferry carrying more than 450 people capsizes near Jindo Island off South Korea, leaving 295 passengers and crew dead and 9 more missing.
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