What happened today, and who was born/died

BIRTHS
04/16/1660	Hans Sloane, British physician/naturalist; founded British Museum
04/16/1844	Anatole France, writer, (Tha‹s), Nobel Prize in 1921
04/16/1867	Wilbur Wright, of aeroplane fame
04/16/1889	Charlie Chaplin, tramp
04/16/1947	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, tall person
EVENTS
04/16/1705	Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College,
04/16/1866	Nitroglycerine at the Wells Fargo and Co. office explodes.
04/16/1912	Harriet Quimby flies English Channel, first woman to do so
04/16/1917	Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
04/16/1972	Apollo 16 launched; 5th lunar landing at Decartes Highlands

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