April 16 Events |
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| April 16th, 2008 (April 16 2008) | Event | Start of Papal Journey of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States | |
| April 16th, 2007 (April 16 2007) | Event | Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing suicide. | |
| April 16th, 2004 (April 16 2004) | Event | The super liner Queen Mary 2 embarks on her first Trans-Atlantic crossing, linking the golden age of ocean travel to the modern age of ocean travel. | |
| April 16th, 2003 (April 16 2003) | Event | The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union. | |
| April 16th, 1992 (April 16 1992) | Event | The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean. | |
| April 16th, 1990 (April 16 1990) | Event | The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, goes through with his first assisted suicide. | Jack Kevorkian Quotes |
| April 16th, 1988 (April 16 1988) | Event | In Forli, Italy, Red Brigades kill Italian Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor to Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita. | |
| April 16th, 1987 (April 16 1987) | Event | British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates Court in London charged with gross indecency. | |
| April 16th, 1973 (April 16 1973) | Event | Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt. | |
| April 16th, 1972 (April 16 1972) | Event | Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. | |
| April 16th, 1972 (April 16 1972) | Event | Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive - prompted by the North Vietnamese offensive, the United States resumes the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong. | |
| April 16th, 1964 (April 16 1964) | Event | Great Train Robbery12 men are sentenced to a total of 307 years. | |
| April 16th, 1963 (April 16 1963) | Event | Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation. | Martin Luther Quotes |
| April 16th, 1955 (April 16 1955) | Event | The Burma-Japanese peace treaty signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954 comes into force, formally ending the state of war. | |
| April 16th, 1953 (April 16 1953) | Event | Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht Britannia. | |
| April 16th, 1947 (April 16 1947) | Event | Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600. | |
| April 16th, 1947 (April 16 1947) | Event | Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union. | Bernard Baruch Quotes |
| April 16th, 1946 (April 16 1946) | Event | Syria gains independence. | |
| April 16th, 1945 (April 16 1945) | Event | The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin. | |
| April 16th, 1945 (April 16 1945) | Event | The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) Prisoner of War camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz Castle). | |
| April 16th, 1945 (April 16 1945) | Event | More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo. | |
| April 16th, 1943 (April 16 1943) | Event | Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD. | |
| April 16th, 1941 (April 16 1941) | Event | World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships. | |
| April 16th, 1941 (April 16 1941) | Event | Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0. | |
| April 16th, 1925 (April 16 1925) | Event | During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded. | |
| April 16th, 1922 (April 16 1922) | Event | The Treaty of Rapallo, in which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations between Berlin and Moscow, is signed. | |
| April 16th, 1919 (April 16 1919) | Event | Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the British slaughter of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre. | |
| April 16th, 1917 (April 16 1917) | Event | Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Finland. | Vladimir Lenin Quotes |
| April 16th, 1912 (April 16 1912) | Event | Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel. | |
| April 16th, 1881 (April 16 1881) | Event | In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle. | |
| April 16th, 1863 (April 16 1863) | Event | American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg - ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi. | |
| April 16th, 1862 (April 16 1862) | Event | American Civil War: The Battle at Lee s Mills in Virginia. | |
| April 16th, 1862 (April 16 1862) | Event | American Civil War: A bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia becomes law. | |
| April 16th, 1858 (April 16 1858) | Event | The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up. | |
| April 16th, 1853 (April 16 1853) | Event | The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane. | |
| April 16th, 1799 (April 16 1799) | Event | Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor - Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre. | |
| April 16th, 1780 (April 16 1780) | Event | The University of Munster in Munster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded. | |
| April 16th, 1746 (April 16 1746) | Event | The Battle of Culloden takes place. | |
| April 16th, 1582 (April 16 1582) | Event | Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina. | |
| April 16th, 1521 (April 16 1521) | Event | Martin Luther s first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire. | Martin Luther Quotes |
| April 16th, 1395 (April 16 1395) | Event | Azzo X d Este is defeated at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Venetian-Ferrarese troops. | |
| April 16th, 1346 (April 16 1346) | Event | The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje by Dusan Silni, occupying much of the Balkans. | |
| April 16th, 1178 (April 16 1178) | Event | A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War. | |
| April 16th, 1071 (April 16 1071) | Event | Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy. | |
