What are the important events that happened on April 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 16: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 16 is the 107th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 259 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 3, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,713,225,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptagon’ day.
Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 288 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,134 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 16 Historical Events
- 1582 –Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
- 1780 –The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
- 1818 –The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
- 1862 –American Civil War: 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.
- 1908 –Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
- 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.
- 1945 –The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
- 1972 –Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Who were born on April 16?
- 1319 –King John II of France (d. 1364)
- 1915 –Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright (d. 1997)
- 1921 –Peter Ustinov, English actor (d. 2004)
- 1946 –Margot Adler, American journalist
- 1964 –David Kohan, American television producer
- 1971 –Moses Chan, Hong Kong actor
- 1971 –Peter Billingsley, American actor
- 1984 –Noah Fleiss, American actor
- 1990 –Lily Loveless, British actress
- 1992 –Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg
Who died on April 16?
- 1198 –Duke Frederick I of Austria
- 1899 –Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b. 1875)
- 1928 –Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founder of Henri Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
- 1930 –José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
- 1947 –Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900)
- 1989 –Miles Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1940)
- 1992 –Andy Russell, American singer (b. 1919)
- 1999 –Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1946)
- 2005 –Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943)
- 2008 –Edward Norton Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
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