On This Day:
Thursday April 16, 2015 This is the 106th day of the year, with 259 days remaining in 2015. Fact of the Day: kimono The kimono is a garment worn by Japanese men and women from the Early Nara period (645-724) to the present. Derived from the Chinese p'ao-style robe, the basic kimono is an ankle-length gown with long, expansive sleeves and a V-neck. It has neither buttons nor ties, being lapped left over right across the chest and secured at the waist by a broad sash known as an obi. The short-sleeved kimono (kosode), worn by women as an outer garment, was introduced in the Muromachi period (Ashikaga shogunate; 1338-1573). The contemporary wide obi dates only from the 18th century. Although the kimono is not of Japanese origin, as is often supposed, its great beauty is attributable to 17th- and 18th-century Japanese designers.
Holidays Feast day of St. Bernadette, St. Magnus, St. Paternus of Avranches, St. Encratis, St. Fructuosus Braga, St. Turibius of Astorga, St. Drogo, St. Joseph Benedict Labre, and St. Optatus and the Martyrs of Saragossa.
Israel: Remembrance Day / Yom Ha'zikkaron.
Denmark: Queen Margreth's Birthday, a national holiday.
Puerto Rico: Jose de Diego's Birthday.
Easter
Events 1851 - A lighthouse was swept away in a gale at Minot's Ledge, Massachusetts.
1862 - President Abraham Lincoln signed an act abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia.
1900 - The first books of U.S. postage stamps were issued.
1908 - Utah's Natural Bridges National Monument was established.
1917 - Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returned to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution.
1926 - The Book-of-the-Month Club in New York City chose as its first selection, "Lolly Willowes" or "The Loving Huntsman" by Sylvia Townsend.
1935 - The radio comedy program "Fibber McGee and Molly" premiered.
1943 - The hallucinogenic effects of LSD were discovered accidentally by Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman.
1947 - In Texas City's port on Galveston Bay, a fire aboard the French ship Grandcamp ignited ammonium nitrate and other explosive materials in the ship's hold, causing a massive blast that destroyed much of the city and killed nearly 600.
1947 - Bernard Baruch coined the term "Cold War."
1962 - Walter Cronkite succeeded Douglas Edwards as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."
2003 - Michael Jordan played his last NBA game as his Washington Wizards lost to the Philadelphia 76ers in the last game of the season.
2003 - The Treaty of Accession was signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
Births 1844 - Anatole France, French writer, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1921).
1867 - Wilbur Wright, American aviator, inventor.
1889 - Charlie Chaplin (born Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin), English comedian, actor, and director.
1919 - Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer.
1921 - Sir Peter Ustinov, Academy Award-winning actor.
1922 - Sir Kingsley Amis, novelist.
1924 - Henry Mancini, American award-winning composer, musician.
1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor, Jr.), American basketball player.
1965 - Martin Lawrence, German-born American actor.
Deaths 1850 - Marie Tussaud, French wax-modeller.
1946 - Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer.
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