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, 484,656 hours 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.
- 1780 –The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
- 1799 –Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
- 1858 –The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
- 1945 –The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
- 1945 –The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
- 1947 –Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
- 1963 –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
- 1990 –The “Doctor of Death”, Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
Who were born on April 16?
- 1755 –Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter (d. 1842)
- 1859 –Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, Welsh socialite (d. 1924)
- 1899 –Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (d. 1988)
- 1922 –Kingsley Amis, English author (d. 1995)
- 1956 –David McDowell Brown, American astronaut (d. 2003)
- 1965 –Michael Wong Man Tak, Hong Kong actor and director
- 1971 –Max Beesley, English musician and actor
- 1971 –Selena, American Tejano singer (d. 1995)
- 1985 –Mark Baker, Welsh author and historian
- 1990 –Evangelos Mantzaris, Greek basketball player
Who died on April 16?
- 1198 –Duke Frederick I of Austria
- 1645 –Tobias Hume, English composer
- 1904 –Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888)
- 1946 –Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884)
- 1958 –Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
- 1972 –Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
- 1978 –Lucius D. Clay, American general (b. 1897)
- 1992 –Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)
- 1997 –Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
- 2002 –Billy Ayre, English footballer and manager (b. 1952)
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