Today in History
Listings for Tuesday, April 16, 2019.
Birthdays:
- 1660 Hans Sloane, British naturalist; founded British Museum
- 1820 V.A. Puiseux --1883
- 1844 Anatole France, writer, (Tha‹s), Nobel Prize in 1921
- 1867 Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame
- 1889 Charlie Chaplin, little tramp
- 1919 Merce Cunningham
- 1920 Barry Nelson
- 1921 Peter Ustinov
- 1924 Henry Mancini
- 1929 Edie Adams
- 1930 Herbie Mann
- 1935 Bobby Vinton
- 1939 Dusty Springfield
- 1947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person
- 1955 Ellen Barkin
- 1965 Martin Lawrence
- 1971 Selena Quintanilla
Events:
- 1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
- 1866 Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo and Co. office explodes.
- 1912 Harriet Quimby flies English Channel, first woman to do so
- 1917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
- 1972 Apollo 16 launched; 5th lunar landing at Decartes Highlands
That's all for today.
