More than 7,000 die when the German transport ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine. In the final months of the Second World War,…
Tag: 16 April
16 April 2007
Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide. The 2007 Virginia Tech shooting was one of the deadliest…
16 April 1972
Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program,…
16 April 1972
Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The Apollo 16 mission was the fifth manned mission to land on the moon…
16 April 1943
Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD.
16 April 1947
An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
16 April 1912
Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel. [rdp-wiki-embed url=’https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Quimby’]
16 April 2007
Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide at Virginia Tech. On 16 April 2007, 32 people died after being gunned…
16 April 1941
The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships during World War II. The Battle of the Tarigo Convoy was a naval battle…
16 April 1990
Jack Kevorkian (“Doctor Death”)participates in his first assisted suicide. Dr. Jack Kevorkian has been known as “Dr. Death” since at least 1956, when he conducted…