History for April 16

History for April 16 - On-This-Day.com:
Wilbur Wright 1867 - Aviator, one of the Wright Brothers, Charlie Chaplin (Sir Charles (Spencer) ‘Charlie’ Chaplin) 1889 - Actor, comedian, Sir Peter Ustinov 1921 - Actor


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) 1947 - Basketball player, Martin Lawrence 1965 - Actor, comedian, Lukas Haas 1976 - Actor


1922 - Annie Oakley shot 100 clay targets in a row, to set a women's record.


1943 - In Basel, Switzerland, chemist Albert Hoffman accidently discovered the the hallucinogenic effects of LSD-25 while working on the medicinal value of lysergic acid.


1944 - The destroyer USS Laffey survived immense damage from attacks by 22 Japanese aircraft off Okinawa.


1951 - 75 people were killed when the British submarine Affray sank in the English Channel.


1972 - Two giant pandas arrived in the U.S. from China.


1975 - The Khmer Rouge Rebels won control of Cambodia after a five years of civil war. They renamed the country Kampuchea and began a reign of terror.


1992 - The House ethics committee listed 303 current and former lawmakers who had overdrawn their House bank accounts.


2007 - In Blacksburg, VA, a student killed 33 people at Virginia Tech before killing himself.