April 16, 1971: Ringo Starr releases his single “It Don’t Come Easy.”
April 16, 1973: ABC broadcasts the tv special James Paul McCartney, on which McCartney debuts “Live and Let Die.”
Bummer April 16th
April 16, 1689: Playwright Aphra Behn dies. She is 48 years old.
April 16, 1947: The French-owned ship SS Grandcamp is docked in the port of Texas City, Texas, in Galveston Bay when a fire breaks out onboard. The fire ignites the ship’s cargo of ammonium nitrate. The resulting explosion destroys everything in a 2,000-foot radius, including a Monsanto Chemical Company building, killing 145 of the 450 workers on duty at the time. 27 of Texas City’s 28 volunteer firefighters are killed.
That first explosion loosed the ship High Flyer free from its moorings; it drifts across the bay until it comes to rest beside the SS Wilson B. Keene. But the cargo of the High Flyer is slowly burning, and it explodes. It destroys the Wilson B. Keene. Super-heated steel from the High Flyer rains down on Texas City, igniting fires. At least 581 people are killed in the chain reaction started by the Grandcamp.
April 16, 1958: 37-year-old x-ray crystallographer and chemist Rosalind Franklin, who helped discover the structures of DNA and RNA molecules, dies of ovarian cancer.
April 16, 2021: English actress Helen McCrory, age 52, dies peaceful in her home of breast cancer.
No comments:
Post a Comment