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
- 1178 BC –The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus’ return home from the Trojan War.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1818 –The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
- 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.
- 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 –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.
- 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).
- 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.
- 1992 –The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
- 2001 –India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
- 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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