What happened this day in history April 16

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 106th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 259 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 3, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,079,360 minutes 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 ‘hectahexagon’ day.

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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 307 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 4,499 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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April 16 Historical Events

  • 1178 BC
    The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus’ return home from the Trojan War.
  • 1582
    Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
  • 1799
    Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
  • 1912
    Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • 1917
    Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland.
  • 1945
    More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.
  • 1962
    Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become “the most trusted man in America”.
  • 2001
    India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
  • 2007
    President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo declares the First Ivorian Civil War to be over.
  • 2007
    Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest spree killing in modern American history. Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 and injures 23 before committing suicide.

Who were born on April 16?

  • 1319
    King John II of France (d. 1364)
  • 1682
    John Hadley, British inventor (d. 1744)
  • 1943
    Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (d. 2000)
  • 1947
    Gerry Rafferty, Scottish musician and songwriter (d. 2011)
  • 1953
    Peter Garrett, Australian singer (Midnight Oil)
  • 1956
    Lise-Marie Morerod, Swiss skier
  • 1963
    Saleem Malik, Pakistani cricketer
  • 1969
    Fernando Viña, American baseball player
  • 1976
    Lukas Haas, American actor
  • 1985
    Mark Baker, Welsh author and historian

Who died on April 16?

  • 924
    Berengar of Friuli, King of Italy
  • 1859
    Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
  • 1915
    Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841)
  • 1930
    José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
  • 1946
    Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884)
  • 1947
    Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900)
  • 1997
    Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
  • 2001
    Alec Stock, English football manager (b. 1917)
  • 2005
    Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943)
  • 2007
    Seung-Hui Cho, American spree killer (b. 1984)

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