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Today in History: April 16

1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton.

1818 The U.S. Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot amendment to form an unarmed U.S.-Canada border.

1854 San Salvador is destroyed by an earthquake.

1862 Confederate President Jefferson Davis approves a conscription act for white males between 18 and 35.

1917 Vladimir Lenin returns to Russia to start the Bolshevik Revolution.

1922 Annie Oakley shoots 100 clay targets in a row, setting a woman's record.

1945 American troops enter Nuremberg, Germany.

1968 The Pentagon announces the "Vietnamization" of the war.

1972 Two giants pandas arrive in the U.S. from China.


Born on April 16


1889Charlie Chaplin, film actor and director.

1960 My Wife


JOTD

A polar bear walks into a bar and the bartender says
“What’ll it be today?”
The bear says “give me a gin and.........................tonic”
The bartender says “sure thing but why the big pause?”
The bear looks down and says “I dunno? I was just born with them. “