History Blog

April 16


Happy Birthday RIP Sir Charles Chaplin (1889–1977) Enrico “Henry” Mancini(1924–1994) ; Stanley “Bobby” Vinton Jr–87 “Kareem Abdul-Jabbar”(Ferdinand Alcindor Jr)–75 Ellen Barkin–68 Jonathan Cryer–57 Martin Lawrence–57 Peter Billingsley-Michaelsen–51 Lukas Haas–46 ; 1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become “the most trusted man in America”