Today is Thursday, April 16, the 106th day of 2015. 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
1939 ― Stalin requests British, French and Russian anti-Nazi pact
1947 ― Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (New York, N.Y.)
1947 ― Massive explosion and fire kills 500 in Texas City, Texas
1948 ― Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris France
1962 ― Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
1987 ― Michael Jordan, becomes second NBA player to score 3000 points in a season