Today is Monday, April 16, the 107th day of 2012. 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
1917 ― Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
1948 ― Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris France
1962 ― Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
1962 ― Brazil nationalizes U.S. businesses
1983 ― Steve Garvey sets National League record by playing in 1,118 consecutive games
1987 ― Michael Jordan, becomes second NBA to score 3,000 points in a season