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On this Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on April 16:
1652 Clement XII [Lorenzo Corsini], Italy, Pope (1730-40)
1660 Hans Sloane England, physician/naturalist; founded British Museum
1682 John Hadley mathematician/inventor (1st reflecting telescope)
1696 Giovanni Battista Tupolo Italian painter
1808 Caleb Blood Smith Secretary of Interior (Union), died in 1864
1816 Edward "Old Allegheny" Johnson Major General (Confederate Army)
1821 Ford Maddox Brown painter
1823 Mother Joseph [Esther Pariseau] religious leader (US capital)
1823 Orlando Bolivar Wilcox Brevet Major General (Union Army), died in 1907
1867 Wilbur Wright of aeronautical fame (Wright Brothers)
1871 John Millington Synge Ireland, dramatist/poet (Riders to the Sea)
1889 Charlie Chaplin [The Little Tramp] Lambeth London England, comedian/actor/director (City Lights)
1897 John B Glubb British commandant/writer (A soldier with the Arabs)
1898 Marian Jordan Peoria IL, radio comedienne (Fibber McGee & Molly)
1900 Polly Adler Russia, bordello proprieter/author (House is not a Home)
1904 Clifford Case (Senator-Republican-NJ)
1906 Pigmeat Markham Durham NC, comedian (Here Comes da Judge-Laugh In)
1911 Christine McIntyre actress (3 Stooges movies)
1918 Spike Milligan Ahmed Nagar India, actor/comedian (Digby, 3 Musketeers)
1919 Merce Cunningham choreographer (Acrobat in Every Soul is a Circus)
1920 John William Farr Detroit MI, bank robber (FBI Most Wanted List)
1921 Peter Ustinov London England, actor (Death on Nile, Logan's Run, Billy Budd)
1922 Kingsley Amis London England, novelist (Lucky Jim, The James Bond Dossier)
1924 Henry Mancini Cleveland OH, composer/conductor (Pink Panther)
1928 Dick [Night Train] Lane NFL defensive back (St Louis Rams, Arizona Cardinals, Detroit Lions)
1929 Roy Hamilton singer (You'll Never Walk Alone)
1930 Herbie Mann Brooklyn NY, jazz flute/sax (Just Wallin')
1931 Edie Adams [Elizabeth Edith Enke] Kingston PA, actress/Mrs Ernie Kovacs (Ernie Kovacs Show, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World)
1935 Bobby Vinton Pittsburgh PA, singer (Roses are Red, Blue on Blue)
1935 Haskell "Cool Papa" Sadler blues singer/guitarist
1939 Dusty Springfield [Mary Isabel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien] Hampstead London England, rock vocalist (Growing Pains)
1945 Goran Antunac Yugoslavia, International Chess Master (1975)
1947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar [Lew Alcindor] NBA center (Milwaukee Bucks, Los Angeles Lakers)
1955 Ellen Barkin Bronx NY, actress (Big Easy, Sea of Love, Switch)
1963 Jimmy Osmond Ogden UT, singer (Donnie & Marie)
1965 Jon Cryer actor (Pretty in Pink, Superman IV)
1971 Selena [Quintanilla Perez] Lake Jackson TX, tejano singer (Grammy-1994)

Deaths which occurred on April 16:
1115 Svjatopolk II great monarch of Kiev, dies [or 1113]
1687 George Villiers 2nd duke of Buckingham dies at 59
1756 Jacques Cassini French astronomer (Discover rings of Saturn), dies at 79
1760 Laurence 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward
1865 Robert C Tyler US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle
1879 Bernadette saint/(saw Virgin Mary at Lourdes), dies in Nevers France
1948 Babe Ruth baseball legend, dies
1955 Abdullah Seif el-Islam brother of Yemenite king Ahmed, beheaded
1978 Lucius D Clay General/Governor US zone West Germany (airlift), dies at 80
1988 Khalil al-Wazir PLO military commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos
1991 David Lean director (2 Academy Awards-Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia), dies of pneumonia at 83
1992 Neville Brand actor (Stalag 17), dies of emphysema at 71
1994 Ralph Waldo Ellison US writer (Invisible Man), dies at 80
1997 Mae Boren Axton mother of Hoyt Axton, song writer (Heartbreak Hotel), dies at 82

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 CHESLEY LARRY J.---BURLEY ID.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1966 JOHNSON SAMUEL R.---DALLAS TX.
[02/12/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1969 KONYU WILLIAM M.---PHILLIPSBURG NJ.
1970 AYERS RICHARD L.---WATERLOO IA.
1970 RAUSCH ROBERT E.---HICKSVILLE NY.
1972 JONES ORVIN C. JR.---NEWPORT NEWS VA.
1972 MATEJA ALAN P.---LOUISVILLE KY.

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
0556 Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1346 King Stefanus IX of Serbia proclaims himself czar of Greece
1509 French army under Louis XII enters Alps
1521 Martin Luther arrives at Diet of Worms
1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
1746 Battle at Culloden Troops of "James VIII & III" defeat Charles Stuart
1777 Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout British
1787 1st American comedy, "The Contrast", makes its debut in NYC
1789 George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration
1818 Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot amendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
1854 San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
1854 Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach NY, 311 die
1854 Franz Liszt's "Mazeppa", premieres
1861 US President Abraham Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states
1862 Confederate President Jefferson Davis approves conscription act for white males between 18-35
1862 Slavery abolished in District of Columbia
1865 Battle of Columbus & West Point GA (Fort Tyler)
1866 Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo & Company office explodes
1866 Karakozov attempts to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia
1868 Louisiana voters approve new constitution
1869 Ebenezer Bassett, 1st US Negro diplomat, begins service in Haiti
1871 German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions
1874 Dr David Livingstones corpse arrives in Southampton
1883 Paul Kruger chosen President of Transvaal
1900 US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
1908 Natural Bridges National Monument established (Lake Powell UT)
1912 Pittsburgh Pirates turn a rare 5-3-7 doubleplay (left fielder covers 2nd base)
1917 Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
1922 Annie Oakley sets record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row
1926 Book of the Month Club sends out its 1st selections "Lolly Willowes" & "Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend Warner
1929 New York Yankees become 1st team to use numbers on uniforms
1935 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
1938 Great-Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia
1939 Stalin requests British, French & Russian anti-nazi pact
1940 1st televised baseball game, WGN-TV, (White Sox vs Cubs exhibition)
1940 Cleveland Indian Bob Feller hurls an opening day no-hitter vs Chicago, 1-0
1945 Red Army begins Battle of Berlin
1945 US troops land on He Shima Okinawa
1946 1st US launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands NM; 8 km altitude
1947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (New York NY)
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."
1947 Massive explosion & fire kills 500 in Texas City TX
1948 Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris France
1953 WAND TV channel 17 in Decatur IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 KVAL TV channel 13 in Eugene OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 1st solar powered radios go on sale
1958 French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis
1962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
1962 Brazil nationalizes US businesses
1964 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery"
1965 Test flight of heavy Saturn S-1C-rocket
1966 Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain
1972 2 giants pandas (Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing) arrive in the US, from China
1972 Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
1974 200,000 attend rock concert California Jam I in Ontario CA
1975 Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh
1977 Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia
1979 Failed Palestinian attack on Zaventem Airport in Belgium
1980 Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis
1982 Queen Elizabeth proclaims Canada's new constitution
1986 To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Qadhafi appears on TV
1987 Michael Jordan, becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000 points in a season
1990 Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977
1992 The House ethics committee listed 303 current and former lawmakers who had overdrawn their House bank accounts, ending an inquiry into the House bank scandal
1992 Afghánistán President Najibullah resigns
1993 Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th
1997 Police in Israel recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for breach of trust in an influence-trading scandal.

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Cuba : Militiamen Day
Denmark : Queen Margrethe's Birthday
Puerto Rico : José De Diego's Birthday (1867)
USA] National Garden Week Week (Day 6)
Mathematics Education Month

Religious Observances
Roman Catholic : Commemoration of St Bernadette Soubirous of Lourdes

Religious History
1521 German reformer Martin Luther, 34, arrived at the Diet of Worms, where he afterward defended his "Ninety-Five Theses," first advanced in 1517. At the Diet, Luther refused to recant his ideas 'unless overcome by Scripture.'
1772 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'I think there is a scriptural distinction between faith and feeling, grace and comfort.... The degree of the one is not often the just measure of the other.'
1829 Death of Carl G. Glaser, 45, German choral master and composer of the hymn tune AZMON, to which we today sing, "O For a Thousand Tongues."
1904 Birth of Merrill C. Tenney, American N.T. scholar. In addition to his many scholarly writings, Tenney was dean of the Wheaton College Graduate School in Illinois from 1947-71.
1948 Christians in Action was incorporated in Compton, CA. Founded by Rev. Lee Shelley, this interdenominational overseas mission helps establish national churches in nearly two dozen overseas countries.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it."

What a Difference 30 Years Makes...
1970: Rolling Stones.
2000: Kidney stones.

New State Slogans...
Alaska: We're bigger than Texas! nyah ha!

Female Language Patterns...
"Let's paint the kitchen." REALLY MEANS,
"You paint the kitchen. I'm going to the store.
Don't get paint on the kids."

Male Language Patterns...
"Have you lost weight?" REALLY MEANS,
"I've just spent our last $30 on a cordless drill."

1931 Edie Adams [Elizabeth Edith Enke] Kingston PA, actress/Mrs Ernie Kovacs (Ernie Kovacs Show, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World)

"Pick me up and smoke me sometime."

1946 1st US launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands NM; 8 km altitude

Sam and I just watched some film of this on the history channel. Cool.

1946 1st US launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands NM; 8 km altitude

1972 Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)

S72-35347 (16 April 1972 ) --- The huge, 363-feet tall Apollo 16 (Spacecraft 113/Lunar Module 11/ Saturn 511) space vehicle is launched from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Florida, at 12:54:00.569 p.m. (EST), April 16, 1972, on a lunar landing mission. Aboard the Apollo 16 spacecraft were astronauts John W. Young, commander; Thomas K. Mattingly II, command module pilot; and Charles M. Duke, Jr., lunar module pilot. While astronauts Young and Duke descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Orion" to explore the Descartes highlands region of the Moon, astronaut Mattingly remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Casper" in lunar orbit.