Today is Wednesday, April 16, on 106 of 2025. There are 259 days of reading in the year.
Today in history:
On April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech student, killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus before taking their lives. It is still the most deadly school history in the history of the United States.
Also on this date:
In 1945, a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea Torpedó the MV Goya ship, which Germany was using to transport civil refugees and wounded soldiers. Up to 7,000 people died when the ship separated and sank minutes after being beaten.
In 1947, the Grandcamp of the French cargo ship, which transported more than 2,000 tons of ammonium nitrate, exploded in the port of Texas City, Texas. A nearby ship, the high steering wheel, which transported ammonium and sulfur nitrate, caught fire and exploded the next day. Combined explosions and fires killed almost 600 people and wounded 5,000 in the worst industrial accident in the history of the United States.
In 1963, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “letter from the Birmingham prison” in which the civil rights activist responded to a group of local clergymen who had criticized him for the main street protests. King defended his tactics, writing: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
In 1972, Apollo 16 deployed for the moon with astronauts John Young, Charles Duke and Ken Mattingly on board.
In 2010, the United States government accused the most powerful signature firm of Wall, saying that Goldman Sachs & Co. had sold mortgage investments without counting buyers the values were created with contributions from a client who was betting on the subject to fail. (In July 2010, Goldman agreed to pay $ 550 million in an agreement with the stock exchange and securities commission, but did not admit irregularities).
In 2012, he began a trial in Oslo, Norway, for Anders Breivik (Ahn’-Durs Bray ‘HIVK), accused of killing 77 people in a bomb and weapons uproar in July 2011. (Breivik was declared guilty of terrorism and murder at the price and murder of givon)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Today’s birthday:
- The singer Bobby Vinton is 90 years old.
- The member of the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar basketball hall is 78 years old.
- The soccer coach Bill Belichick is 73 years old.
- Actor Ellen Barkin is 71 years old.
- Singer Jimmy Osmond has 62.
- Actor Jon Cryer is 60 years old.
- The comedian of the actor Martin Lawrence is 60 years old.
- Actor Peter Billingsley is 54 years old.
- Actor Lukas Haas has 49.
- Actor-Singer Kelli O’Hara is 49 years old.
- Actor Claire Foy (TV: “The Crown”) is 41.
- Rapper Chance The Rapper has 32.
- Actor Anya Taylor-Joy is 29.
- Actor Sadie Sink has 23.