About April 16
April 16, 2025 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.
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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.
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What Happened On April 16
- 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.
- 1521 –Martin Luther’s first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire.
- 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.
- 1818 –The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
- 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.
- 1858 –The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
- 1862 –American Civil War: A bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia becomes law.
- 1908 –Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
- 1917 –Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland.
- 1919 –Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
- 1944 –Allied forces started bombing of Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
- 1947 –Bernard Baruch coins the term “Cold War” to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- 1963 –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
- 1972 –Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 1990 –The “Doctor of Death”, Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
- 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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