History for April 16

History for April 16 - On-This-Day.com
Wilbur Wright 1867 - Aviator, one of the Wright Brothers, Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles (Spencer) ‘Charlie’ Chaplin) 1889 - Actor, comedian, Sir Peter Ustinov 1921 - Actor 


Henri Mancini (Enrico Nicola Mancini) 1924 - Composer (themes for "The Pink Panther", "Peter Gunn"), Bobby Vinton 1935 - Singer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) 1947 - Basketball player 


1746 - The Duke of Cumberland defeated Bonnie Prince Charlie (and his Jacobites) at the battle of Culloden. 


1818 - The U.S. Senate ratified Rush-Bagot amendment to form an unarmed U.S.-Canada border. 


1912 - Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. 


1917 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returned to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution after years of exile. 


1943 - In Basel, Switzerland, chemist Albert Hoffman accidently discovered the the hallucinogenic effects of LSD-25 while working on the medicinal value of lysergic acid. 


1947 - In Texas City, TX, the French ship Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up. The explosions and resulting fires killed 576 people. 


1962 - Walter Cronkite began anchoring "The CBS Evening News". 


1972 - Two giants pandas arrived in the U.S. from China. 


1985 - Mickey Mantle was reinstated after being banned from baseball for several years. 


1987 - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) sternly warned U.S. radio stations to watch the use of indecent language on the airwaves.