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Revision as of 03:52, 18 September 2003
April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). There are 259 days remaining.
Events
- 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 by a Texas jury, yet the Department of Justice filed similar charges on him, but he ran away until he was caught in the Netherlands and deported.
Births
- 1755 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, painter († 1842)
- 1844 - Anatole France, narrator and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1921 († 1924)
- 1867 - Wilbur Wright, pioneer pilot († 1912)
- 1886 - Ernst Thälmann, politician († 1944)
- 1889 - Charlie Chaplin, actor, writer and film producer († 1977)
- 1904 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress († 1983)
- 1918 - Spike Milligan, comedian
- 1919 - Merce Cunningham, dancer, choreographer
- 1921 - Peter Ustinov, writer, actor and film director
- 1922 - Kingsley Amis, author († 1995)
- 1924 - Henry Mancini, film and TV composer, "Moon River", Peter Gunn
- 1927 - Joseph Ratzinger, cardinal
- 1930 - Herbie Mann, jazz flute player
- 1935 - Sarah Kirsch, lyricist
- 1939 - Dusty Springfield, singer († 1999)
- 1940 - Queen Margaret II of Denmark
- 1946 - Bobby Vinton, singer
- 1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball star
- 1962 - Ian MacKaye, musician
Deaths
- 744 - al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph
- 1828 - Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, spanish painter
- 1914 - George William Hill, astronomer (* 1838)
- 1946 - Arthur Chevolet, pioneer automobile racer and designer
- 1968 - Edna Ferber, author
- 1991 - David Lean, director
- 1992 - Neville Brand, actor
- 1997 - Doris Angleton, Houston, Texas socialite
Holidays and observances
- Birthday of the Queen celebrated in Greenland
See Also:
April 15 - April 17 - March 16 - May 16 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December