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What happened on April 16th?
Apollo 16 is launched (1972)
On this date, the Apollo 16 mission launched out of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It lasted for 11 days, 1 hour and 51 minutes.
This was the fifth lunar landing and the tenth manned mission in the Apollo space program. Once landing, astronauts did a few moonwalks, drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle and gathered lunar samples. They also released a subsatellite.
The location of the landing was specific to gather geological data related to older spots. This disproved the theory that formations on the Moon’s Descartes Formation and the Cayley Formation were volcanic in origin.
Jack Kevorkian performs first assisted suicide (1990)
Jack Kevorkian, also known as “Doctor Death,” was an American pathologist and was a heavy proponent of euthanasia, or assisted suicide. On this date in 1990, he performed his first assisted suicide on a 54 year old woman with Alzheimer’s disease.
Dr. Kevorkian has claimed to have assisted over 130 people with committing suicide. For his actions, he was convicted of second-degree murder and served eight years of a 10-25 year prison sentence.
He has famously claimed “Dying is not a crime.” He passed away in 2011 and his tombstone reads “He sacrificed himself for everyone’s rights.”
Chance the Rapper is born (1993)
On this date in 1993, Chance the Rapper, his real name being Chancellor Jonathan Bennett, was born in Chicago, Illinois.
While being a great musician, Chance the Rapper is also known for his activism, particularly in Chicago. In 2017, he announced his intention to donate $1,000,000 to Chicago Public Schools due to lack of funding for them.
Chance the Rapper has had several awards given to him for his music, including Best Rap Album in 2017 for “Coloring Book” at the Grammy’s and Best New Hip-Hop Artist in the same year by the Radio Music Awards. In 2018, he received the Innovator Award from the Radio Music Awards.
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