Porterville Recorder

DAY IN HISTORY

- By Andrews Mcmeel Almanac

Friday, April 16, 2021

Today is the 106th day of 2021 and the 28th day of spring.

TODAY’S HISTORY:

In 1917, Vladimir Lenin returned to Russia in a sealed train after years in exile.

In 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann discovered the hallucinog­enic effects of LSD.

In 1947, a fertilizer explosion during the loading of the freighter Grandcamp at a pier in Texas City, Texas, left more than 500 dead.

In 1963, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. penned his famous “Letter From Birmingham City Jail.”

In 2007, a gunman killed 32 people in a shooting spree on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Anatole France (18441924), writer; Wilbur Wright (1867-1912), pilot/ engineer; Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), filmmaker; Peter Ustinov (1921-2004), actor; Henry Mancini (1924-1994), composer; Pope Benedict XVI (1927); Kareem Abdul-jabbar (1947- ), basketball player; Bill Belichick (1952- ), football coach; Ellen Barkin (1954- ), actress; Jon Cryer (1965- ), actor; Martin Lawrence (1965- ), actor; Chance the Rapper (1993- ), rapper; Anya Taylor-joy (1996- ), actress.

TODAY’S FACT: Charlie Chaplin’s body was stolen in 1978 by grave robbers hoping to extort money from his family for its return. It was recovered 11 weeks later, and the perpetrato­rs were arrested.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 2003, Michael Jordan of the Washington Wizards played the final NBA game of his career, a season-ending 107-87 loss to the Philadelph­ia 76ers.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.” — Anatole France

TODAY’S NUMBER:

0 — hits allowed by Cleveland Indians pitcher Bob Feller on this day in 1940. Feller’s performanc­e remains the only opening day no-hitter in Major League Baseball history.

TODAY’S MOON: Between new moon (April 11) and first quarter moon (April 20).

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