1900<\/strong> – The first book of postage stamps was issued. The two-cent stamps were available in books of 12, 24 and 48 stamps.<\/p>\n 1905<\/strong> – Andrew Carnegie donated $10,000,000 of personal money to set up the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.<\/p>\n 1912<\/strong> – Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.<\/p>\n 1917<\/strong> – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin returned to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution after years of exile.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> – Annie Oakley shot 100 clay targets in a row, to set a women’s record.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> – The Soviet Union and Germany signed the Treaty of Rapallo under which Germany recognized the Soviet Union and diplomatic and trade relations were restored.<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong> – “Fibber McGee and Molly” premiered.<\/p>\n 1940<\/strong> – The first no-hit, no-run game to be thrown on an opening day of the major league baseball season was earned by Bob Feller. The Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago White Sox 1-0.<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – The Island of Malta was awarded the George Cross in recognition for heroism under constant German air attack.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong> – In Basel, Switzerland, chemist Albert Hoffman accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of LSD-25 while working on the medicinal value of lysergic acid.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – The destroyer\u00a0USS Laffey<\/i>\u00a0survived immense damage from attacks by 22 Japanese aircraft off Okinawa.<\/p>\n 1945<\/strong> – American troops entered Nuremberg, Germany.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – The Zoomar lens, invented by Dr. Frank Back, was demonstrated in New York City. It was the first lens to exhibit zooming effects.<\/p>\n 1947<\/strong> – In Texas City,\u00a0TX, the French ship\u00a0Grandcamp<\/i>, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer, caught fire and blew up. The explosions and resulting fires killed 576 people.<\/p>\n 1948<\/strong> – In Paris, the Organization for European Economic Co-operation was set up.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – 75 people were killed when the British submarine\u00a0Affray<\/i>\u00a0sank in the English Channel.<\/p>\n 1953<\/strong> – The British royal yacht\u00a0Britannia<\/i>\u00a0was launched.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – Walter Cronkite began anchoring “The CBS Evening News”.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> – At the Western Open in El Monte, CA, Ken Barnes Jr. became the first skeet shooter to break a perfect 400 x 400 in all four guns (.410, 28, 20, and 12 gauges). He is also the only shooter to do this with pump action guns.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – The Pentagon announced that troops would begin coming home from Vietnam.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong> – Major league baseball’s longest night game was played when the Houston Astros defeated the New York Mets 1-0. The 24 innings took six hours, six minutes to play.<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> –\u00a0Apollo 16<\/i>\u00a0blasted off on a voyage to the moon. It was the fifth manned moon landing.<\/p>\n 1972<\/strong> – Two giants pandas arrived in the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0from China.<\/p>\n 1975<\/strong> – The Khmer Rouge Rebels won control of Cambodia after five years of civil war. They renamed the country Kampuchea and began a reign of terror.<\/p>\n 1978<\/strong> – In Orissa, India, 180 people died when a tornado hit.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – A failed assassination attempt against Iraqi vice-premier Tariq Aziz occurred.<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0transferred the Canal Zone to Panama.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – New York Islander Mike Bossy became the first\u00a0National Hockey League (NHL)\u00a0player to score 60 goals in 3 consecutive seasons.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong> – World oil prices dropped below $10 a barrel.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0submarine Nathaniel Green ran aground in the Irish Sea.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> – Steve Newman became the first man to walk around the world. The walk was 22,000 miles and took 4 years.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S. President Reagan\u00a0told doctors in Philadelphia, “We’ve declared AIDS public health enemy No. 1.”<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – Iran released British hostage Roger Cooper after 5 years.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court ruled that jurors could not be barred from serving due to their race.<\/p>\n 1991<\/strong> – The Warsaw Pact was officially dissolved.<\/p>\n 1992<\/strong> – Players began the first strike in the 75-year history of the\u00a0National Hockey League (NHL).<\/p>\n 1996<\/strong> – U.S. President Bill Clinton threw out the first ball preceding a game between the Kansas City Royals and the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n 1997<\/strong> – David Carradine received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.<\/p>\n 1998<\/strong> – A federal judge dismissed the Paula Jones’ sexual harassment lawsuit against U.S. President Clinton saying that the claims fell “far short” of being worthy of a trial.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – In Zhytomyr, Ukraine, Anatoliy Onoprienko was sentenced to death for the deaths of 52 men, women and children. 43 of the killings occurred in a 6-month period.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – The Canadian territory of Nunavut was created. It was carved from the eastern part of the Northwest Territories and covered about 772,000 square miles.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – China began holding 24 crewmembers of a\u00a0U.S.\u00a0surveillance plane. The EP-3E\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Navy crew had made an emergency landing after an in-flight collision with a Chinese fighter jet. The Chinese pilot was missing and presumed dead. The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0crew was released on April 11, 2001.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested on corruption charges after a 26-hour standoff with the police at his Belgrade villa.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – North Korea test-fired an anti-ship missile off its west coast.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – Jason Mewes was ordered to complete drug rehabilitation or face five years in jail stemming from a drug conviction in 1999.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0President George W. Bush signed the Unborn Victims of Violence Act. The bill made it a crime to harm a fetus during an assault on a pregnant woman.<\/p>\n 2004<\/strong> – Gateway Inc. announced that it would be closing all of its 188 stores on April 9.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong> – Albania and Croatia joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong> – The U.S. Congress cut Medicare reimbursements to physicians by 21%.<\/p>\n 2011<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 After protests against the\u00a0burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacks a United Nations\u00a0compound in\u00a0Mazar-i-Sharif,\u00a0Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.<\/p>\n 2016<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nagorno-Karabakh clashes: The Four Day War or April War, began along the\u00a0Nagorno-Karabakh\u00a0line of contact on April 1.<\/p>\n History of 16 April 1900 – The first book of postage stamps was issued. 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