On This Day in History April 16, 2018

Historical Events 1705  Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge 1746  Jacobite Rising 1745: Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army. 1900  US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps 1917  Vladimir Lenin issues his radical "April Theses" calling for Soviets to take power during the Russian Revolution [OS Apr 4] 1948  Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris 2003  Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Benedict XVI 91st Birthday Charlie Chaplin (1889 - 1977) Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 71st Birthday Spike Milligan (1918 - 2002) More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths David Lean (1908 - 1991) Rosalind Franklin (1920 - 1958) More Famous Deaths April 16th: Madame Tussaud's Bloody Background Madame Tussaud, famous for her waxworks, perfected her art in the grimmest of 'schools' – the French Revolution - where she made models of guillotined heads. Read the Article