Today In History-16th April

What Happened 16th April in The History

• 1943 Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered
• 1738 General Sir Henry Clinton is born
• 1946 Arthur Chevrolet commits suicide
• 1863 Union ships pass Vicksburg
• 1947 Bernard Baruch coins the term “Cold War”
• 2007 Virginia Tech shooting leaves 32 dead
• 1947 Fertilizer explosion kills 581 in Texas(Disaster)
• 1972 Apollo 16 departs for moon
• 1947 Texas City explodes
• 1889 Charlie Chaplin born
• 1881 Bat Masterson’s last shootout
• 1789 Washington leaves Mt. Vernon for his inauguration
• 1972 United States resumes bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong
• 1917 Lenin returns to Russia from exile(World War I)
• 1897 Frederick William Winterbotham, one of Britain’s top code breakers, is born(World War II)