On April 16, 2018, the Pulitzer Prize Board awards the Pulitzer Prize for Music to rapper Kendrick Lamar for his 2017 album, DAMN.

On April 16, 2003, basketball fans were united in both celebration and sorrow as they witnessed the iconic Michael Jordan play his final NBA game, concluding an illustrious career that spanned two decades.

In March 1996, Britain’s Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, and his wife, Sarah, the Duchess of York, shocked the royal family and the public with the announcement of their intention to divorce after a tumultuous decade of marriage.

On April 16, 1972, NASA's Apollo 16 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, marking a significant moment in the history of lunar exploration.

From Cape Canaveral, Florida, Apollo 16, the fifth of six U.

Multimillionaire and financier Bernard Baruch, in a speech given during the unveiling of his portrait in the South Carolina House of Representatives, coins the term “Cold War” to describe relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.

On April 16, 1929, the Cleveland Indians open the season with numbers on the back of each player’s jersey, the first Major League Baseball team to do so.

On April 16, 1917, Vladimir Lenin, leader of the revolutionary Bolshevik Party, returns to Petrograd after a decade of exile to take the reins of the Russian Revolution.

Charles Chaplin: The Birth of a Comedy Legend in 1889 On April 16, 1889, the world welcomed one of its most iconic figures in the realm of entertainment: Charles Spencer Chaplin.

On April 16, 1889, future Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin is born Charles Spencer Chaplin in London, England.