04-15-2011, 07:23 PM
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April 16th
1867 ~ Birthday of Wilbur Wright, Pioneer Pilot.
1889 ~ Birthday of Charlie Chaplin, Actor, Writer & Film Producer.
1912 ~ Harriett Quimby became the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1921 ~ Birthday of Peter Ustinov, Writer, Actor & Film Director.
1927 ~ Birthday of Joseph Ratzinger, German Shepard.
1943 ~ Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered the psychedelic effects of LSD.
1947 ~ The explosive nature of ammonium nitrate fertilizer first tested in the wild.
1963 ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while locked up for protesting against segregation.
1991 ~ Death of David Lean, British film director (Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter, A Passage to India).
1993 ~ The UN voted to make Srebrenica a 'safe haven'.
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