At present is Wednesday, April 16, the 106th day of 2025. There are 259 days left within the 12 months.
At present in historical past:
On April 16, 2007, Seung-hui Cho, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech pupil, killed 32 folks on the Virginia Tech campus earlier than taking his personal life. It stays the deadliest college historical past in US historical past.
Additionally on this date:
In 1945, a Soviet submarine within the Baltic Sea torpedoed the ship MV Goya, which Germany was utilizing to move civilian refugees and wounded troopers. As many as 7,000 folks died because the ship broke aside and sank minutes after being struck.
In 1947, the French cargo ship Grandcamp, carrying over 2,000 tons of ammonium nitrate, blew up within the harbor in Texas Metropolis, Texas. A close-by ship, the Excessive Flyer, which was carrying ammonium nitrate and sulfur, caught fireplace and exploded the next day. The mixed blasts and fires killed practically 600 folks and injured 5,000 within the worst industrial accident in U.S. historical past.
In 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” through which the civil rights activist responded to a gaggle of native clergymen who had criticized him for main road protests. King defended his ways, writing, “Injustice anyplace is a menace to justice all over the place.”
In 1972, Apollo 16 blasted off for the moon with astronauts John Younger, Charles Duke and Ken Mattingly on board.
In 2010, the U.S. authorities accused Wall Avenue’s strongest agency of fraud, saying Goldman Sachs & Co. had offered mortgage investments with out telling patrons the securities had been crafted with enter from a shopper who was betting on them to fail. (In July 2010, Goldman agreed to pay $550 million in a settlement with the Securities and Change Fee, however it didn’t admit wrongdoing.)
In 2012, a trial started in Oslo, Norway, for Anders Breivik (AHN’-durs BRAY’-vihk), charged with killing 77 folks in a bomb and gun rampage in July 2011. (Breivik was discovered responsible of terrorism and premeditated homicide and given a 21-year jail sentence.)
At present’s Birthdays:
- Singer Bobby Vinton is 90.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is 78.
- Soccer coach Invoice Belichick is 73.
- Actor Ellen Barkin is 71.
- Singer Jimmy Osmond is 62.
- Actor Jon Cryer is 60.
- Actor-comedian Martin Lawrence is 60.
- Actor Peter Billingsley is 54.
- Actor Lukas Haas is 49.
- Actor-singer Kelli O’Hara is 49.
- Actor Claire Foy (TV: “The Crown”) is 41.
- Rapper Probability the Rapper is 32.
- Actor Anya Taylor-Pleasure is 29.
- Actor Sadie Sink is 23.