On April 16
On this day: 1853 – The first passenger line of what would become Indian Railways, the state-owned railway company of India, opened between Bombay and Thane. 1912 – American Harriet Quimby (pictured) became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. 1947 – American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post-World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war". 2003 – The Treaty of Accession was signed in Athens, admitting ten new member states, including several countries of the former Eastern Bloc, into the European Union. 2007 – In one of the deadliest shooting incidents in United States history, a gunman killed 32 people and wounded over 20 more before committing suicide at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. (source: Wikipedia)
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