About April 16
April 16, 2024 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.
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Aries is the sun 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.
What Happened On April 16
- 1457 BC –Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
- 1178 BC –The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus’ return home from the Trojan War.
- 73 –Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.
- 1346 –Dušan the Mighty is proclaimed Emperor, with the Serbian Empire occupying much of the Balkans.
- 1746 –The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland after the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
- 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.
- 1847 –The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.
- 1908 –Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
- 1912 –Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
- 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.
- 1919 –Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
- 1925 –During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
- 1941 –Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
- 1945 –More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.
- 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.
- 1953 –Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht Ship HMY.
- 1963 –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
- 2007 –Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest spree killing in modern American history. Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 and injures 23 before committing suicide.
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