On This Day for April 16 - Harriet Quimby's flight across the English Channel, Peter Ustinov is featured, and more

Created: 2020-04-16 10:03 Updated: 2020-04-16 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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April 16

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Peter Ustinov

FEATURED EVENT

1912

Harriet Quimby's flight across the English Channel

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2014: The South Korean ferry Sewol, traveling from Inch'ŏn to Cheju, capsized and sank, killing 304 people, most of whom were high schoolers. [ Learn about seven of the world's deadliest shipwrecks.]

2007: In one of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States, 33 people, including the shooter, were killed on the Blacksburg, Virginia, campus of Virginia Tech.

2003: At age 40, Michael Jordan, widely regarded as the best player in the history of basketball, played his last game in the National Basketball Association. [Find out if Michael Jordan tops our list of the 10 greatest basketball players of all time.]

1962: American journalist Walter Cronkite became anchor of the CBS Evening News , a position he held for nearly two decades, during which time he became known as “the most trusted man in America.”

1948: In order to restore the economy of Europe after World War II, 16 European countries formed the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (later the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ).

1947: American basketball player Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who won five NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers (1980, 1982, 1985, 1987, and 1988), was born. [ How well do you know basketball player nicknames?]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1889

Charlie Chaplin
British actor, director, writer, and composer

1947

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
American basketball player

1952

Bill Belichick
American football coach

1927

Benedict XVI
pope

1939

Dusty Springfield
British singer