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Famous Quote For April 16

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963

April 16 Birthdays

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Selena Quintanilla

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Chance The Rapper

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Martin Lawrence

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Charlie Chaplin

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Finlay MacMillan

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Vickie Guerrero

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Poppy Lee Friar

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Hayes MacArthur

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Bandit Gang Marco

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April 16 History

1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.

1947 - Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

1945 - The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin.

1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.

1917 - Revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returned to Russia after years of exile.

This Day In Business

2010 - The airline industry overseas grinds to a halt as planes the UK, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia are determined unsafe to fly as a result of the volcanic ash coming from Iceland.

This Day In Entertainment

1940 - The first ever televised baseball game appears on WGN-TV.

This Day In Geography

73 - The Jewish fortress Masada captured by Romans.

This Day In Sports

1940 - Bob Feller pitches the only opening day no hitter in MLB history, for Cleveland Indians.

April 16th Holiday

Emancipation Day (Washington, D.C.) - Commemorates Abraham Lincoln signing the Compensated Emancipation Act, which freed 3,100 slaves in Washington D.C. nine months before the Emancipation Proclamation.

Today's Birthday Trivia

In 2012, she played Penny in Blue Like Jazz. Who is she?

Today's Birthday Horoscope

Learn about people born on this day by reading the April 16 Birthday Horoscope.

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