Michael Jordan plays final NBA game with Washington Wizards – Chicago Tribune

Today is Tuesday, April 16th, the 107th day of 2024. There are 259 days left in the year.

Today's highlight of the story:

On April 16, 2003, Michael Jordan played his last NBA game for the Washington Wizards, who lost to the Philadelphia 76ers 107-87.

On this date:

In 1789, President-elect George Washington left Mount Vernon, Virginia, for his inauguration in New York.

The comedian and film director Charles Chaplin was born in London in 1889.

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In 1947, the cargo ship Grandcamp carrying ammonium nitrate exploded in the port of Texas City, Texas; a nearby ship, the High Flyer, carrying ammonium nitrate and sulfur, caught fire and exploded the next day; Almost 600 people died in the explosions and fires.

In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” in which the civil rights leader responded to a group of local clergy who had criticized him for leading street protests; King defended his tactics, writing, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

In 1972, Apollo 16 took off on a trip to the moon with astronauts John W. Young, Charles M. Duke Jr. and Ken Mattingly on board.

In 1977, Alex Haley, author of the bestselling book Roots, visited the Gambian village of Juffure, where he believes his ancestor Kunte Kinte was captured as a slave in 1767.

In 1996, Britain's Prince Andrew and his wife Sarah, the Duchess of York, announced that they were divorcing.

In 2003, Michael Jordan played his last NBA game with the Washington Wizards, who lost to the Philadelphia 76ers 107:87.

In 2007, in one of the worst school attacks in America, a college graduate killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus before taking his own life.

In 2010, the U.S. government accused Wall Street's most powerful firm of fraud, saying Goldman Sachs & Co. sold mortgage investments without telling buyers that the securities had been created with the help of a customer who had bet on them failing . (In July 2010, Goldman agreed to pay $550 million in a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, but did not admit any wrongdoing.)

In 2012, a trial began in Oslo, Norway, against Anders Breivik, charged with killing 77 people in a bomb and gun attack in July 2011. (Breivik was found guilty of terrorism and premeditated murder and sentenced to 21 years in prison.)

In 2013, NFL player and future broadcaster Pat Summerall died in Dallas at the age of 82.

In 2018, The New York Times and The New Yorker won the Pulitzer Prize for public service for uncovering the Harvey Weinstein scandal with reporting that galvanized the #MeToo movement.

In 2020, the Trump administration repealed an Obama-era rule that had required the nation's coal-fired power plants to reduce emissions of mercury and other threats to human health.

In 2021, Jon Ryan Schaffer, a member of the far-right militia group Oath Keepers and heavy metal guitarist, became the first defendant to plead guilty in connection with the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol.

In 2022, Russian forces increased scattered attacks on Kiev, western Ukraine and beyond, a sign that the entire country was still under attack even as Russia focused on a new offensive in the east.

Today's birthdays: Singer Bobby Vinton is 89. Denmark's Queen Margrethe II is 84. Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is 77. Former first lady of Massachusetts Ann Romney is 75. NFL coach Bill Belichick is 72. Rock singer (Midnight Oil ) and Former politician Peter Garrett is 71. Actress Ellen Barkin is 70. Actor Michel Gill is 64. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is 62. Rock musician Jason Scheff (Chicago) is 62. Singer Jimmy Osmond is 61. Rock singer David Pirner (Soul Asylum). ) is 60. Actor-comedian Martin Lawrence is 59. Actor Jon Cryer is 59. Actor Peter Billingsley is 53. Actor Lukas Haas is 48. Actor-singer Kelli O'Hara is 48. Actress Claire Foy (TV: “The Crown” ) ) is 40. Figure skater Mirai Nagasu is 31. Actress Sadie Sink is 22.