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Revision as of 08:58, 8 November 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 home. Roger Nicholas Angleton, Doris' husband, was found innocent of the crime by a Texas jury, although he would later admit to killing her in a suicide note.
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
- 1788 - George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, naturalist (* 1707)
- 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 (* 1951)
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