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.
- 73 –Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.
- 1582 –Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1853 –The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
- 1858 –The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
- 1863 –American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
- 1881 –In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
- 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 –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 –Bernard Baruch coins the term “Cold War” to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- 1953 –Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht Ship HMY.
- 1972 –Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 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.
- 2003 –The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
- 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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