April 16th

April 16 is the 107th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. If the ancient Mayans were correct, there are 249 days remaining until the end of time.

1178BCE The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus' return home from the Trojan War.

1724 1st Easter observed [?!? WTF ?!?]

1881 In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.

1941 Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.

1943 Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.

1947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated in New York City

1962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News. People lay hands on their tvs because, Praise Jeebus, we believe every word out of this man’s mouth.

1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation

1972 2 giant pandas arrive in U.S. from China. People are reminded that these are wild animals, but they still want to pet and cuddle them because they're so damn cute!!

1980 Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis.  What a boo-tay!

1990 Using his MacGyver-esque skills, the "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.

2007 President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo declares the First Ivorian Civil War to be over. . .not so fast, Larry!

1867 Wilbur Wright, maybe gay US bicycle builder/aviation pioneer 

1889 Sir Charles Chaplin, English actor/writer/director/producer/composer 

1927 Pope Benedict XVI, flamboyent transvestite German Head of the Roman Catholic Church/priest swapper/sex-abuse hinderer/used to be a Junior Nazi, yay! 

1930 Herbie Mann, US jazz flautist

1939 Dusty Springfield, bisexual English singer 

1947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, US basketball player/part-time co-pilot 

1964 Danny Quinn, Italian-US actor/Anthony’s son/Francesco’s brother

1971 Max Beesley, English actor 

1977 Freddie Ljungberg, Swedish footballer/model  (with naked fan)

1979 Daniel Browne, Kiwi rugger/Dieux du Stade model 

1982 Florian Naroska, German water polo player 

1984 Noah Fliess, US actor 

1985 Benjamín Rojas, Argentine actor/singer 

1986 Epke Zonderland, Dutch gymnast 

1987 Neil Haskell, US dancer/So You Think You Can Dance finalist  Watch his incredible dance with Kent Boyd.

1968 Edna Ferber, maybe gay US author (American Beauty), ain’t so big after all.

2002 Robert Urich, US actor (Spenser for Hire, and countless other tv shows), doesn't care that he ruined my enjoyment of Robert B. Parker books because I always thought Spenser was supposed to look like Alex Karras

2007 Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing suicide.