April 16
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April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). There are 259 days remaining.
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Events
- 1178 BC - A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War.
- 1071 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy.
- 1521 - Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the rest of the estates of the empire.
- 1582 - Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
- 1746 - Second Jacobite Rebellion: The Battle of Culloden, the last battle of the Jacobite Uprising is fought, ultimately leading to the destruction of the Highland clans.
- 1780 - The [[University of M�nster]] in [[M�nster]], North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
- 1799 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
- 1853 - The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
- 1862 - American Civil War: A bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia became law.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg – 12 ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi. Only one ship is lost.
- 1881 - In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
- 1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
- 1917 - Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd (present-day Saint Petersburg) from exile in Finland.
- 1919 - Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the British slaughter of Indian protestors in the Amritsar Massacre.
- 1922 - The Treaty of Rapallo, in which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations between Berlin and Moscow, is signed.
- 1925 - the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia claims the lives of 150 and injures another 500.
- 1926 - Lolly Willows by Sylvia Townsend Warner is distributed as the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection.
- 1935 - Radio program Fibber McGee and Molly debuts.
- 1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
- 1945 - WWII: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin.
- 1945 - The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) Prisoner of War camp Oflag IVc (Colditz Castle).
- 1945 - German ship Goya, overfilled with refugees, sinks after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing more than 7,000 people.
- 1947 - Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
- 1947 - Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- 1949 - Dave Garroway moves from radio to television to host the musical-variety show Garroway at Large.
- 1953 - Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht Britannia.
- 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous Letter From a Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
- 1964 - Sentences totalling 307 years were passed on 12 men who stole �2.6m in used bank notes after holding up the night mail train travelling from Glasgow to London in August of 1963 - a heist that became known as the Great Train Robbery.
- 1972 - Apollo program: Apollo 16 launches toward the Moon from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 1972 - Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – Prompted by the North Vietnamese offensive, the United States resumes bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong.
- 1987 - British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in central London charged with gross indecency.
- 1988 - In [[Forl�]] (Italy), Red Brigades kill Italian senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor of Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.
- 1992 - The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
- 1996 - [[France T�l�com]] introduces its Wanadoo Internet service.
- 1998 - One of the most serious urban tornadoes in history does significant damage to downtown Nashville, Tennessee (see Nashville Tornado of 1998).
- 2000 - Protests against the World Bank and IMF in Washington, DC.
- 2003 - Makobo Modjadji is crowned the new Rain Queen of Balobedu.
- 2003 - The Accession Treaty is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
Births
- 778 - King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
- 1319 - King John II of France (d. 1364)
- 1495 - Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (d. 1557)
- 1646 - Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (d. 1708)
- 1660 - Hans Sloane, British collector and physician (d. 1753)
- 1661 - Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, British poet and statesman (d. 1715)
- 1682 - John Hadley, British inventor (d. 1744)
- 1728 - Joseph Black, Scottish chemist (d. 1799)
- 1730 - Henry Clinton, British general (d. 1795)
- 1755 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (d. 1842)
- 1800 - George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (d. 1888)
- 1823 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (d. 1852)
- 1844 - Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
- 1865 - Henry George Chauvel, Australian general (d. 1945)
- 1867 - Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1912)
- 1871 - John Millington Synge, Irish writer (d. 1909)
- 1878 - Tip Foster, English cricketer (d. 1914)
- 1886 - [[Ernst Th�lmann]], German politician (d. 1944)
- 1889 - Charles Chaplin, English actor, writer, and film producer (d. 1977)
- 1904 - Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
- 1905 - Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (d. 2005)
- 1912 - Garth Williams, American illustrator (d. 1996)
- 1912 - Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (d. 1997)
- 1915 - Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright and actor (d. 1997)
- 1918 - Spike Milligan, British comedian (d. 2002)
- 1919 - Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer
- 1921 - Peter Ustinov, English writer, actor, and film director (d. 2004)
- 1922 - Kingsley Amis, English author (d. 1995)
- 1924 - Henry Mancini, American composer (d. 1994)
- 1927 - Edie Adams, American actress
- 1927 - Pope Benedict XVI
- 1927 - Peter Mark Richman, American actor
- 1928 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (d. 2002)
- 1930 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flute player (d. 2003)
- 1933 - Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster
- 1935 - Sarah Kirsch, German poet
- 1935 - Bobby Vinton, American singer
- 1937 - Joseph Whipp, American actor
- 1939 - Dusty Springfield, English singer (d. 1999)
- 1940 - Margrethe II of Denmark, queen regnant
- 1942 - Frank Williams Formula 1 constructor
- 1946 - Margot Adler, American journalist
- 1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
- 1947 - Gerry Rafferty, British musician and songwriter
- 1951 - Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, French photographer, painter, sculptor
- 1951 - Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian writer and photographer
- 1951 - [[Bj�rgvin Halld�rsson]], Icelandic singer
- 1952 - Bill Belichick, American football coach
- 1952 - Billy West, American voice actor
- 1953 - Peter Garrett, Australian musician (Midnight Oil), and politician
- 1953 - J. Neil Schulman, American writer and activist
- 1954 - Ellen Barkin, American actress
- 1955 - Bruce Bochy, baseball player and manager
- 1956 - Lise-Marie Morerod, Swiss skier
- 1959 - Alison Ramsay, Scottish field hockey player
- 1960 - Rafael Benitez, Spanish football manager
- 1961 - Doris Dragović, Croatian singer
- 1962 - Ian MacKaye, American musician, (Fugazi and Minor Threat)
- 1963 - Jimmy Osmond, American pop singer (The Osmonds)
- 1964 - Dave Pirner, American rock singer (Soul Asylum)
- 1965 - Jon Cryer, American actor
- 1965 - Martin Lawrence, American actor, comedian, and producer
- 1971 - Selena, American singer (d. 1995)
- 1975 - Sean Maher, American actor
- 1976 - Lukas Haas, American actor
- 1977 - Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
- 1978 - Matthew Lloyd, Australian football player
- 1979 - Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, Swedish musician (The Hives)
- 1979 - Christijan Albers Formula 1 driver
- 1983 - Cat Osterman, University of Texas softball pitcher
- 1987 - Aaron Lennon, British footballer
- 1994 - Liliana Mumy, American child actress
Deaths
- 69 - Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
- 744 - al-Walid II, Umayyad caliph
- 924 - Berengar of Friuli, King of Italy
- 1113 - Sviatopolk II of Kiev, Russian prince (b. 1050)
- 1118 - Adelaide del Vasto, wife of Roger II of Sicily
- 1198 - Duke Frederick I of Austria
- 1645 - Tobias Hume, English composer
- 1687 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1628)
- 1689 - Aphra Behn, English dramatist
- 1783 - Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
- 1788 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707)
- 1828 - Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
- 1846 - Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer (b. 1763)
- 1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
- 1888 - [[Zygmunt Florenty Wr�blewski]], Polish physicist (b. 1845)
- 1904 - Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
- 1914 - George William Hill, American astronomer (b. 1838)
- 1915 - Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841)
- 1938 - Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
- 1946 - Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884)
- 1958 - Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
- 1968 - Edna Ferber, American author (b. 1885)
- 1972 - Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
- 1978 - Lucius Clay, American general (b. 1897)
- 1985 - Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
- 1991 - David Lean, British film director (b. 1908)
- 1992 - Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)
- 1994 - Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1914)
- 1997 - Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)
- 1997 - Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
- 1998 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
- 2001 - Michael Ritchie, American film director (b. 1920)
- 2001 - Alec Stock, English football manager (b. 1917)
- 2002 - Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927)
- 2002 - Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
- 2003 - Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer (b. 1909)
- 2005 - Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)
- 2005 - Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist (b. 1976)
Holidays and observances
- Feast days:
- Benedict Joseph Labre in the Roman Catholic Church
- Saint Bernadette
- Saint Paternus
- Saint Fructuosus
- Saint Turibius
- Saints Martial, Urban, Eventius, Caecilian, Julia, and their companions martyrs of 304
- Saint Drogo.
- Birthday of the Queen Margrethe celebrated in Greenland.
- Mawlid in Shi'a Islam (2006).
External links
See Also:
April 15 -- April 17 -- March 16 -- May 16 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "April 16" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_16 April 27, 2006
