Almanac for April 16th

Erin O'Riordan's almanac for April 16th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-16-Shrimp-Cocktail-H2H11DYOX7

Artist Birthday: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Beatles Trivia

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.

Almanac for April 15th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 15th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-15-Ready-Player-One-U7U11DHWDX

Artist Birthday: Bessie Smith

The San Antonio Light, Nov. 22, 1925

Bummer April 15th

April 15, 1865: After being in a coma for eight hours, Abraham Lincoln dies from the bullet wound inflicted on him by John Wilkes Booth.

April 15, 1888: English poet Matthew Arnold dies. He has suffered a heart attack while chasing after a streetcar.

April 15, 1912: The HMS Titanic sinks into the Atlantic Ocean, having struck an iceberg shortly before midnight. Of the approximately 2,200 people on board, 1,500 die. 

April 15, 1989: Nearly 100 spectators die in a crowd crush at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

April 15, 2013: In a terrorist attack by two brothers from Chechnya at the Boston Marathon, two pressure cooker bombs detonate, killing three people and injuring hundreds of others. The older brother of the two terrorists is also killed while trying to evade police. The other is tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison.

Almanac for April 14th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 14th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-14-Coal-Miners-Daughter-V7V51DHVCW

Beatles Trivia
April 14, 1963: The Beatles and the Rolling Stones meet for the first time. The Beatles are in Richmond, England, to film a TV appearance. The Rolling Stones are performing at a Richmond club; the two groups meet backstage.

Bummer April 14th

April 14, 1865: U.S. president Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth.

April 14, 1922: Shortly after she heard a radio program on which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describes his Spiritualist beliefs, a New Jersey woman named Maude Fancher decides she wants to live in the spirit world with her 2-year-old son Cecil. She kills Cecil, then attempts to kill herself by drinking a bottle of Lysol cleaning solution. Maude Fancher survives.

April 14, 1965: Perry Edward Smith and Dick Hickok are executed by hanging by the state of Kansas for the murders of the Clutter family on November 15, 1959.

April 14, 2017: 5-year-old Charlie Holt is crushed to death when his head becomes lodged in a small space between the stationary and rotating sections of the Sun Dial rotating restaurant at the Westin Peachtree Plaza Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.

Almanac for April 13th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 13th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-13-Fail-Better-V7V61DHV43

Bummer April 13th

April 13, 1928: The town of West Plains, Missouri, is rocked by an explosion, the reason for which is unclear. It may have started with the accidental ignition of gasoline fumes leaking from a downtown gas station. In any event, among the buildings damaged by the explosion was the Bond Dance Hall, where a dance was occurring. The explosion of the dance hall killed 37 people and injured 22 others.

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Almanac for April 12th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 12th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-12-Bog-Life-C0C01DG2KO

Bummer April 12th

April 12, 1204: Christian Crusaders turn on the Christian capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople, in three days of looting and burning. The rampage destroys the Library of Constantinople and other priceless works of art and ancient artifacts.

April 12, 1945: U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt, vacationing at his home in Warm Springs, Georgia, tells his staff “I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.” These will be his last words, as Roosevelt slumps forward in his wheelchair and dies shortly afterward from a cerebral hemorrhage. The 32nd POTUS is the 7th U.S. president to die in office, and the 4th of these to die of natural causes.

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Almanac for April 11th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 11th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-11-Doughnuts-Free-to-Ghosts-X8X61DG1ZB

Beatles Trivia
April 11, 1964: The Beatles have 14 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart hits, including “Can’t Buy Me Love” at #1 and “Twist & Shout” at #2. 

Bummer April 11th

April 11, 1965: In what becomes known as the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, severe weather and six confirmed tornados kill 266 people in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio.

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Almanac for April 10th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for April 10th: https://ko-fi.com/post/April-10-Where-the-Wild-Things-Are-G2G41DG0PT

Bummer April 10th

April 10, 1931: Lebanese-American novelist Kahlil Gibran dies at age 48 of cirrhosis and tuberculosis.

April 10, 1945: Gloria Dickson dies of asphyxia along with her pet dog. The 27-year-old film and stage actor is sleeping in a second-floor bedroom when an unextinguished cigarette sets a chair on the first floor on fire. Dickson awakens and is apparently attempting to escape her burning house via the bathroom window when she and the dog are overtaken by smoke and fumes.

April 10, 1962: Stu Sutcliffe, the 21-year-old Scottish musician and original Beatles bass player, dies of a cerebral hemorrhage. This internal injury, a ruptured aneurysm, may have been related to a head injury Sutcliffe suffered in 1961 as a result of a street fight in which John Lennon also suffered minor injuries.

April 10, 2003: When the United States invades the Iraqi capital of Baghdad to depose Saddam Hussein, officials at the Iraqi National Library and Archives fear that its archives of papers related to Hussein and his Ba’athist Party will incriminate them. They hire local people, many of them poor and likely motivated by the money, to loot and set fire to the library. These acts destroy about 60% of the archives and 25% of the library materials, including one of the oldest known copies of the Koran.

April 10, 2016: Fireworks stored for an upcoming celebration inside Puttingal Temple in Kerala, India, cause an explosion and subsequent fire that kills 111 people and injures more than 300 others, some of them severely burned.