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.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 307 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.
- 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.
- 1853 –The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Battle at Lee’s Mills in Virginia.
- 1881 –In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
- 1908 –Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
- 1922 –The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
- 1945 –More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.
- 1945 –The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
- 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.
- 1972 –Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 2001 –India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
- 2003 –The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
- 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.
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