What day of the week was April 16, 1947?

The day of the week April 16th, 1947 fell on was a Wednesday.

Kareem Abdul- Jabbar the American basketball player and coach was born on 16 April in 1947. As was Gerry Rafferty the Scottish singer-songwriter (The Humblebums and Stealers Wheel) (d. 2011) .

Rudolf Höss the German SS officer (b. 1900) died on this day in 1947.

Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City the Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600. Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.