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On This Day In History for April 16, 2025
This is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 259 days remaining in 2025.
- It was on this date in 1582, that Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founded the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
- Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founded the University of Münster on this date in 1780.
- On April 16, 1853, The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opened the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
- It was 115 years ago today that the oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opened for the first time.
- Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel on April 16, 1912.
- Albert Hofmann accidentally discovered the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD on this date in 1943. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
- 53 years ago today was the launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- That same date in 2012, the Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
- German mathematician and astronomer, Petrus Apianus, born on this date in 1495.
- The English mathematician, invented the octant, John Hadley was born 343 years ago today.
- Born April 16, 1823, German mathematician and academic Gotthold Eisenstein.
- American inventor, Wilbur Wright was born 158 years ago today.
- Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer was born on that same date in 1889.
- Henry Mancini, the American composer and conductor was born 101 years ago today.
- Russian physicist and academic, Vadim Kuzmin, born on this date in 1936.
- American captain, pilot, and astronaut, David M. Brown was born 69 years ago today.
Listener Birthdays
- 16 – Donna Tomasi
- 18 – Skaifey (Anthony)
- 19 – Amanda (SusietheGeek’s daughter & Geek in Training)
- 21 – Kim and Kreg’s Anniversary
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for April 15, 2025
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News
- NASA spacecraft spots monster black hole bursting with X-rays ‘releasing a hundred times more energy than we have seen elsewhere’ | Space
- Scientists built largest brain ‘connectome’ to date by having a lab mouse watch ‘The Matrix’ and ‘Star Wars’ | Live Science
- This 18-Year-Old Wins $250,000 After Finding 1.5 Million Mysterious Space Objects
- NASA’s James Webb space telescope captures new view of Uranus
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