Now is Wednesday, April 16, the 106th moment of 2025. There are 259 more weeks left until the year is over.
Now in history:
Seung-hui Cho, a 23-year-old Virginia Tech scholar, killed 32 folks on the school before taking his own life on April 16, 2007. It continues to be the most deadly university year in US history.
Even on this day:
A Russian submarine in the Baltic Sea torpedoed the fleet MV Goya, which was being used by Germany to transfer wounded and human refugees, in 1945. The ship sank days after being hit, killing up to 7, 000 people, and broke off and drowned.
The European cargo ship Grandcamp, which was carrying more than 2, 000 plenty of nitrogen oxide, blew up in Texas City, Texas in 1947. The High Flyer, a local ship that was loaded with ammonium nitrate and carbon, caught fire and exploded the following morning. In the worst commercial accident in U.S. past, almost 600 people were killed and 5, 000 were hurt in all of the blows and fires.
In 1963, the Rev. In his” Letter from Birmingham Jail,” the civil rights campaigner addressed a group of neighborhood priests who had criticized him for facilitating street protests. King defended his tactics by stating that “injustice everywhere is a danger to justice outside.”
John Young, Charles Duke, and Ken Mattingly were on board Apollo 16 when it set off for the sun in 1972.
The US government accused Wall Street’s most potent company of fraud in 2010, claiming Goldman Sachs &, Co. had sold lease assets without disclosing to customers that the securities had been created with input from a customer who was betting on their failure. ( Goldman agreed to pay$ 50 million in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission in July 2010; however, it did not admit to wrongdoing. )
Anders Breivik ( AHN ‘-durs BRAY ‘-vihk ) is accused of killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage in Oslo, Norway, in 2012, and is facing a trial in Oslo. Breivik received a 21-year jail sentence after being found guilty of violence and premeditated murder.
Bobby Vinton, a 90-year-old song, is celebrating today. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a 78-year-old member of the basketball hall of fame, is a 78-year-old. Bill Belichick, the head coach for sport, is 73. Ellen Barkin, an actress, is 71. Jimmy Osmond, the performer, is 62. Jon Cryer, age 60, is an artist. At the age of 60, Martin Lawrence is an actor. Actor Peter Billingsley ’54 is. Actor Lukas Haas is 49. KelliO’Hara, the singer, is 49. Actor Claire Foy is 41 years old. Rapper Chance has a 32-year age. Anya Taylor-Joy, an actress, is 29. Sadie Sink, an artist, is 23.
