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What Happened on April 16th This Day in History

Year	Name
2018	The New York Times and the New Yorker win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for breaking news of the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse scandal.
2016	Ecuador's worst earthquake in nearly 40 years kills 676 and injures 6,274.
2014	The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to widespread criticism of the South Korean government, media, and shipping authorities.
2013	A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
2013	The 2013 Baga massacre is started when Boko Haram militants engage government soldiers in Baga.
2012	The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
2012	The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
2008	The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Baze v. Rees decision that execution by lethal injection does not violate the Eighth Amendment ban against cruel and unusual punishment.
2007	Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
2003	The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
2003	Michael Jordan plays his final game with the National Basketball Association.
2001	India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
1996	Israel strikes a civilian house in Nabatieh Fawka, Lebanon, killing nine people, including seven children.
1990	"Doctor Death", Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
1972	Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1963	Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
1961	In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
1948	The Organization of European Economic Co-operation is formed.
1947	An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
1947	Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
1945	World War II: 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).
1945	More than 7,000 die when the German transport ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
1944	World War II: Allied forces start bombing Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
1943	Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
1942	King George VI awarded the George Cross to the people of Malta in appreciation of their heroism.
1941	World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
1941	World War II: The Nazi-affiliated Ustaše is put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis powers after Operation 25 is effected.
1925	During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, Bulgaria, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
1922	The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
1919	Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
1919	Polish–Lithuanian War: The Polish Army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
1917	Russian Revolution: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
1912	Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1910	The oldest existing indoor ice hockey arena still used for the sport in the 21st century, Boston Arena, opens for the first time.
1908	Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
1881	In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1878	The Senate of the Grand Duchy of Finland issued a declaration establishing a city of Kotka on the southern part islands from the old Kymi parish.
1863	American Civil War: During the Vicksburg Campaign, gunboats commanded by acting Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter run downriver past Confederate artillery batteries at Vicksburg.
1862	American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
1862	American Civil War: The District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act, a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia, becomes law.
1858	The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is dissolved.
1853	The Great Indian Peninsula Railway opens the first passenger rail in India, from Bori Bunder to Thane.
1847	Shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand Wars.
1838	The French Army captures Veracruz in the Pastry War.
1818	The United States Senate ratifies the Rush–Bagot Treaty, limiting naval armaments on the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain.
1799	French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
1780	Franz Friedrich Wilhelm von Fürstenberg founds the University of Münster.
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.
1582	Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
1520	The Revolt of the Comuneros begins in Spain against the rule of Charles V.
1457	Battle of Megido - the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.[1]
1346	Stefan Dušan, "the Mighty", is crowned Emperor of the Serbs at Skopje, his empire occupying much of the Balkans.
73	Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the First Jewish–Roman War.
69	Defeated by Vitellius' troops at Bedriacum, Otho commits suicide.

Famous People Born on April 16

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Year	Name
1896	Robert Henry Best, American journalist (d. 1952)
1993	Mirai Nagasu, Japanese-American figure skater
1890	Gertrude Chandler Warner, American author and educator (d. 1979)
1924	Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (d. 1994)
1955	Bruce Bochy, American baseball player and manager
1940	Benoît Bouchard, Canadian academic and politician, 18th Canadian Minister of Transport
1947	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player and coach
1984	Claire Foy, English actress
1973	Akon, Senegalese-American singer, rapper and songwriter
1864	Rose Talbot Bullard, American medical doctor and professor (d. 1915)

Famous People Deaths On April 16

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on April 16. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1928	Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founded Henry Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
1899	Emilio Jacinto, Filipino journalist and activist (b. 1875)
2011	Gerry Alexander, Jamaican cricketer and veterinarian (b. 1928)
1828	Francisco Goya, Spanish-French painter and illustrator (b. 1746)
1991	David Lean, English director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
1989	Jocko Conlan, American baseball player and umpire (b. 1899)
1969	Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator and painter (b. 1904)
1966	Eric Lambert, Australian author (b. 1918)
1985	Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
1941	Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, English economist and civil servant (b. 1880)