April
16
World
Entrepreneurship Day
Events
1457 BC
– Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III
and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the
first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively
reliable detail.
1178 BC – The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus' return
home from the Trojan War.
73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several
months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.
1346 – Dušan the Mighty is proclaimed Emperor, with the Serbian
Empire occupying much of the Balkans.
1520 – The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the
rule of Charles V.
1521 – 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.
1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement
of Salta, Argentina.
1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported
Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William
Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle
many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland
were cleared of inhabitants.
1780 – The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia,
Germany is founded.
1799 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon
drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
1818 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty,
establishing the border with Canada.
1847 – The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor
results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand
land wars.
1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder,
Bombay to Thane.
1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish
learned society, is wound up.
1862 – American Civil War: The Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
1862 – American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated
Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia,
becomes law.
1863 – 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.
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last
gun battle.
1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane
across the English Channel.
1917 – Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland.
1919 – Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting"
in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar
Massacre by the British.
1919 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna
offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and
the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia,
150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
1941 – World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to
Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
1941 – 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.
1944 – Allied forces started bombing of Belgrade, killing about
1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
1945 – The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces
around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the
Battle of the Seelow Heights.
1945 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high
security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
1945 – More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya
is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.
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.
1953 – Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia.
1962 – Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of
the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become "the
most trusted man in America".
1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham
Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting
against segregation.
1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral,
Florida.
1990 – The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates
in his first assisted suicide.
1992 – The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique
and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
2001 – India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict,
but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting
10 new member states to the European Union.
2007 – Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest spree shooting
in modern American history. Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 and injures
23 before committing suicide.
Holidays
and observances
Birthday
of Queen Margrethe II (Denmark)
Christian Feast Day:
Benedict Joseph Labre
Bernadette Soubirous
Drogo
Fructuosus of Braga
Martyrs of Zaragoza
Turibius of Astorga
April 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Emancipation Day (Washington, D.C.)
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