History for April 16

History for April 16 - On-This-Day.com

Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles (Spencer) ‘Charlie’ Chaplin) 1889 - Actor, comedian

• 1818 - The U.S. Senate ratified Rush-Bagot amendment to form an unarmed U.S.-Canada border.
• 1900 - The first book of postage stamps was issued. The two-cent stamps were available in books of 12, 24 and 48 stamps.
• 1917 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returned to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution after years of exile.
• 1922 - Annie Oakley shot 100 clay targets in a row, to set a women's record.
• 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.
• 1962 - Walter Cronkite began anchoring "The CBS Evening News".
• 1968 - The Pentagon announced that troops would begin coming home from Vietnam.
• 1972 - Two giants pandas arrived in the U.S. from China.
• 1992 - The House ethics committee listed 303 current and former Democrat lawmakers who had overdrawn their House bank accounts in the "House Banking Scandal".