Today in History: April 16, the Virginia Tech shooting
At present is Wednesday April the th day of There are days left in the year This day in history On April Seung-hui Cho a -year-old Virginia Tech trainee killed people on the Virginia Tech campus before taking his own life It remains the deadliest school history in US history Also on this date In a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea torpedoed the ship MV Goya which Germany was using to shipping civilian refugees and wounded soldiers As multiple as people died as the ship broke apart and sank minutes after being struck Related Articles Legislature approves Sand Creek Massacre memorial for Colorado Capitol At present in History April the Titanic sinks in the North Atlantic In the present day in History April Abraham Lincoln fatally shot at Ford s Theatre The present day in History April Tiger Woods wins first Masters by record margin Nowadays in History April Yuri Gagarin becomes first human in space In the French cargo ship Grandcamp carrying over tons of ammonium nitrate blew up in the harbor in Texas City Texas A nearby ship the High Flyer which was carrying ammonium nitrate and sulfur caught fire and exploded the following day The combined blasts and fires killed nearly people and injured in the worst industrial accident in U S history In the Rev Martin Luther King Jr wrote his Letter from Birmingham Jail in which the civil rights activist responded to a group of local clergymen who had criticized him for leading street protests King defended his tactics writing Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere In Apollo blasted off for the moon with astronauts John Young Charles Duke and Ken Mattingly on board In the U S regime accused Wall Street s the greater part powerful firm of fraud saying Goldman Sachs Co had sold mortgage investments without telling buyers the securities were crafted with input from a client who was betting on them to fail In July Goldman agreed to pay million in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission but it did not admit wrongdoing In a trial began in Oslo Norway for Anders Breivik AHN -durs BRAY -vihk charged with killing people in a bomb and gun rampage in July Breivik was ascertained guilty of terrorism and premeditated murder and given a -year prison sentence At present s Birthdays Singer Bobby Vinton is Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is Football coach Bill Belichick is Actor Ellen Barkin is Singer Jimmy Osmond is Actor Jon Cryer is Actor-comedian Martin Lawrence is Actor Peter Billingsley is Actor Lukas Haas is Actor-singer Kelli O Hara is Actor Claire Foy TV The Crown is Rapper Chance the Rapper is Actor Anya Taylor-Joy is Actor Sadie Sink is
