SATURDAY APRIL 16, 2011

Today is Saturday, April 16, the 106th day of 2011. There are 259 days left in the year.

1705 _ Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College

1724 _ First Easter observed

1789 _ George Washington heads for first presidential inauguration

1917 _ Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution

1962 _ Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News

1974 _ 200,000 attend rock concert California Jam I in Ontario, Calif.

1975 _ Cambodian Red Khmer occupy Phnom Penh

1977 _ Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia

1986 _ To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Gadhafi appears on TV

1993 _ Jury reaches guilty verdict in federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17