Today is Thursday, April 16, the 106th day of 2009. There are 259 days left in the year.
1521 _ Martin Luther arrives at Diet of Worms
1705 _ Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
1724 _ First Easter observed
1789 _ George Washington heads for first presidential inauguration
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1871 _ German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions
1917 _ Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
1945 _ German troops in Groningen surrender
1948 _ Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris France
1962 _ Brazil nationalizes U.S. businesses
1986 _ To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Kadhafi appears on TV