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| 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. |
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| 1178BCE The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus' return home from the Trojan War. |
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| 1724 1st Easter observed [?!? WTF ?!?] |
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| 1881 In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle. |
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| 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. |
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| 1943 Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD. |
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| 1947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated in New York City |
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| 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. |
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| 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation |
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| 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!! |
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| 1980 Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis. What a boo-tay! |
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| 1990 Using his MacGyver-esque skills, the "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide. |
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| 2007 President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo declares the First Ivorian Civil War to be over. . .not so fast, Larry! |
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| 1867 Wilbur Wright, maybe gay US bicycle builder/aviation pioneer |
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| 1889 Sir Charles Chaplin, English actor/writer/director/producer/composer |
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| 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! |
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| 1930 Herbie Mann, US jazz flautist |
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| 1939 Dusty Springfield, bisexual English singer |
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| 1947 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, US basketball player/part-time co-pilot |
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| 1964 Danny Quinn, Italian-US actor/Anthony’s son/Francesco’s brother |
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| 1971 Max Beesley, English actor |
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| 1977 Freddie Ljungberg, Swedish footballer/model (with naked fan) |
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| 1979 Daniel Browne, Kiwi rugger/Dieux du Stade model |
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| 1982 Florian Naroska, German water polo player |
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| 1984 Noah Fliess, US actor |
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| 1985 Benjamín Rojas, Argentine actor/singer |
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| 1986 Epke Zonderland, Dutch gymnast |
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| 1987 Neil Haskell, US dancer/So You Think You Can Dance finalist Watch his incredible dance with Kent Boyd. |
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| 1968 Edna Ferber, maybe gay US author (American Beauty), ain’t so big after all. |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
