• Today is Wednesday, April 16, the 106th day of 2014. There are 259 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On April 16, 1964, The Rolling Stones' first album, eponymously titled "The Rolling Stones," was released in the United Kingdom by Decca Records (a slightly different version debuted in the United States a month and a-half later).
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• On this date:
• In 1789, President-elect George Washington left Mount Vernon, Va., for his inauguration in New York.
• In 1862, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. The Confederacy conscripted all white men between the ages of 18 to 35.
• In 1879, Bernadette Soubirous, who'd described seeing visions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, died in Nevers (neh-VEHR'), France.
• In 1889, comedian and movie director Charles Chaplin was born in London.
• In 1912, American aviator Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to France in 59 minutes.
• In 1935, the radio comedy program "Fibber McGee and Molly" premiered on NBC's Blue Network.
• In 1947, the French ship Grandcamp blew up at the harbor in Texas City, Texas; another ship, the High Flyer, exploded the following day (the blasts and fires killed nearly 600 people). Financier Bernard M. Baruch said in a speech at the South Carolina statehouse, "Let us not be deceived -- we are today in the midst of a cold war."
• In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in which he said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
• In 1972, Apollo 16 blasted off on a voyage to the moon with astronauts John W.

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