Today is Wednesday, April 16, the 106th day of 2014. 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
1922 ― German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized
1948 ― Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris France
1962 ― Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
1974 ― 200,000 attend rock concert California Jam I in Ontario, Calif.
1977 ― Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia