April 16: Great Thursday (Eastern Christianity, 2009); Emancipation Day in Washington, D.C. Harriet Quimby * 1853 – The first passenger line of what would become Indian Railways, the state-owned railway company of India, opened between Bombay and Thane. * 1912 – American Harriet Quimby (pictured) became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. * 1947 – American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post-World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war". * 2003 – The Treaty of Accession was signed in Athens, admitting ten new member states, including several countries of the former Eastern Bloc, into the European Union. * 2007 – In one of the deadliest shooting incidents in United States history,