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 mark 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 1992 - The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
- 1996 - France Télécom 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).
- 2001 - First 3G voice call on Vodafone UK's 3G network.
Births
- 1319 - King John II of France (d. 1364)
- 1660 - Hans Sloane, British collector and physician (d. 1753)
- 1728 - Joseph Black, discoverer of carbon dioxide and magnesium (d. 1799)
- 1755 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, painter (d. 1842)
- 1823 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, mathematician (d. 1852)
- 1844 - Anatole France, French writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature (d. 1924)
- 1867 - Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1912)
- 1871 - John Millington Synge, Irish writer (d. 1909)
- 1878 - Reginald Foster, English cricketer (d. 1914)
- 1886 - Ernst Thälmann, politician (d. 1944)
- 1889 - Charlie Chaplin, actor, writer and film producer (d. 1977)
- 1897 - Frederick William Winterbotham, code breaker (d. 1990)
- 1904 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress (d. 1983)
- 1912 - Garth Williams, American illustrator (d. 1996)
- 1913 - Les Tremayne, British-American actor (d. 2003)
- 1918 - Spike Milligan, comedian (d. 2002)
- 1919 - Merce Cunningham, dancer, choreographer
- 1921 - Peter Ustinov, writer, actor, and film director (d. 2004)
- 1922 - Kingsley Amis, author (d. 1995)
- 1924 - Henry Mancini, American composer (d. 1994)
- 1927 - Pope Benedict XVI
- 1927 - Edie Adams, American actress
- 1928 - Dick "Night Train" Lane, American football player (d. 2002)
- 1930 - Herbie Mann, American jazz flute player (d. 2003)
- 1933 - Ike Pappas, American reporter
- 1935 - Sarah Kirsch, lyricist
- 1935 - Bobby Vinton, American singer
- 1939 - Dusty Springfield, singer (d. 1999)
- 1940 - Queen Margaret II of Denmark
- 1946 - Margot Adler, American journalist
- 1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball star
- 1947 - Gerry Rafferty, British musician, songwriter
- 1949 - Melody Patterson, American actress
- 1952 - Bill Belichick, American football coach
- 1953 - J. Neil Schulman, science fiction writer, Libertarian activist
- 1954 - Ellen Barkin, American actress
- 1956 - Lise-Marie Morerod, skier
- 1960 - Rafael Benitez, Liverpool F.C. manager
- 1962 - Ian MacKaye, musician
- 1965 - Martin Lawrence, actor, comedian, and producer
- 1965 - Jon Cryer, American actor
- 1971 - Selena, singer (d. 1995)
- 1971 - Peter Billingsley, American actor
- 1976 - Lukas Haas, American actor
Deaths
- 69 - Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
- 744 - al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph
- 1198 - Duke Frederick I of Austria
- 1689 - Aphra Behn, dramatist (b. ca. 1640)
- 1788 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, naturalist (b. 1707)
- 1828 - Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
- 1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
- 1904 - Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
- 1914 - George William Hill, astronomer (b. 1838)
- 1915 - Nelson W. Aldrich, Senator from Rhode Island (b. 1841)
- 1938 - Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
- 1946 - Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and Automobile designer
- 1958 - Rosalind Franklin, British chemist
- 1968 - Edna Ferber, American author (b. 1885)
- 1972 - Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese author (b. 1899)
- 1978 - Lucius Clay, American general
- 1985 - Scott Brady, American actor
- 1991 - David Lean, American film director (b. 1908)
- 1992 - Neville Brand, actor (b. 1920)
- 1994 - Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1914)
- 1995 - Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave
- 1997 - Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)
- 1998 - Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
- 2001 - Michael Ritchie, American film director
- 2002 - Ruth Fertel, restaurateur
- 2002 - Robert Urich, American actor
- 2003 - Graham Stuart Thomas, horticultural artist, author, and garden designer
- 2005 - Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)
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 celebrated in Greenland
External links
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/16)
- Today in History: April 16 (http://www.tnl.net/when/4/16)
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