The granting of the Charter to William Penn by King Charles II was immortalized by artist Violet Oakley (1874â1961) in one of thirteen murals she painted for the Governor's Reception Room in the Pennsylvania State Capitol. In addition, Quakers rejected all aspects of traditional English society.
MLB announces tentative 2016 schedule. Major League Baseball on Tuesday released its tentative 2016 regular-season schedule, starting with the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball game on April 3 with a matchup to be announced, and then featuring 13 games on the first convergence of Opening Day and Square Root Day: April 4, 2016.
While these are technically opening games, Major League Baseball still reserves the title Opening Day for the first day in which multiple games are played. (For the first time ever, three televised games were played on Sunday, April 3, 2016, before the traditional Opening Day slate of games on Monday, April 4.)