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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.

1071 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy
1746 - Battle of Culloden, in Scotland, the last battle of the Jacobite Rising; the destruction of the Highland clans
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Benningon - Ethan Allen leads his "Green Mountain Boys" to victory over the British in Vermont
1799 - Battle of Mount Tabor; Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
1917 - Vladmir Lenin returns from exile
1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychic effects of LSD
1947 - A fire begun aboard a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas to catch fire, killing almost 600
1996 - France Telecom introduces its Wanadoo Internet service