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	*] - A fire begun aboard a freighter in port causes the city of ] to catch fire, killing almost 600		*] - A fire begun aboard a freighter in port causes the city of ] to catch fire, killing almost 600
	*] - ] introduces its ] ] service		*] - ] introduces its ] ] service
	*] - ], a ], ] socialite, is murdered in her ] house. ] would later admit to killing her in his suicide note. ], Doris' husband, was found innocent of the crime, however.		*] - ], a ], ] socialite, is murdered in her ] house. ] would later admit to killing her in his suicide note. ], Doris' husband, was found innocent of the crime, however.

	==Births==		==Births==

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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
1997 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, a Houston, Texas socialite, is murdered in her River Oaks house. Roger Nicholas Angleton would later admit to killing her in his suicide note. Robert Nicholas Angleton, Doris' husband, was found innocent of the crime, however.