The 16t o Aprile is the 106t day o the year (107t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 259 days ti come.
Events
1888 : German annexation o Nauru 1908 : Naitural Brigs Naitional Monument 1972 : Apollo 16 launch1705 - Isaac Newton becomes a "Sir".1746 - Seicont Jacobite Uprisin: Battle o Culloden , the hindmaist battle o the Jacobite Uprisin wis fochten, at the hinnerend it led tae the the Hieland clans bein malafoustert.1848 - The Unitit States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, staiblishin the mairch wi Canadae .1888 - Germany annexes Nauru .1894 - Manchester City F.C. is foondit.1908 - The Naitural Brigs Naitional Monument is creatit in Utah .1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman tae flee across the Inglis Chainel .1925 - A Communist assault on Saunt Nedelya Kirk in Sofia , Bulgarie , kills 150 fowk.1941 - Warld War II : Italian convoy "Duisburg" is destroyed bi Breetish ships .1943 - Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects o LSD .1944 - Warld War II : Allied bombin o Belgrade .1945 - Warld War II : The Reid Airmy stairts its feenal assault on Berlin .1945 - Warld War II : German refugee ship "Goya" is sunk bi a Soviet submarine, killin 7,000 fowk.1947 - Bernard Baruch first uses the term "Cauld War ".1947 - Texas Ceety, Texas , is set on fire bi a splosion on a freighter, killin 600 fowk.1961 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares himsel a Marxist-Leninist.1972 - Apollo 16 launches tae the Muin .2001 - Indie an Bangladesh stairt a five-day mairch war.2003 - The Treaty o Accession is signed, for 10 new members tae jyn the European Union in 2004 .2007 - 33 fowk are kilt in the Virginie Tech massacre.2012 - Anders Behring Breivik goes on trial for the 2011 Norawa attacks .2014 - The "MV Sewol" ferry sinks aff Jindo Island, Sooth Korea , killin 295 fowk.2016 - A major yirdquauk hits Ecuador .2017 - A nairae majority support chyngin Turkey 's seestem o govrenment tae a Preses republic in a referendum.2019 - The fire that stairtit at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris the previous e'en is extinguished.
Births
Pape Benedict XVI 1728 – Joseph Black , Scots scientist (d. 1799 )1800 – William Chambers , Scots publisher (d. 1883 )1844 – Anatole France , French jurnalist, author, an poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924 )1867 – Wilbur Wright , American aviator (d. 1912 )1868 – Spottiswoode Aitken , Scots actor (d. 1933 )1889 – Charlie Chaplin , Inglis actor, director, producer, screenwriter, an componer (d. 1977 )1896 – Tristan Tzara , Romanie-French poet (d. 1963 )1921 – Peter Ustinov , Inglis actor, director, producer, an screenwriter (d. 2004 )1922 – Kingsley Amis , Inglis novelist, poet, creetic an teacher (d. 1995 )1922 – Leo Tindemans , Belgian politeecian, 43rd Prime meenister o Belgium (d. 2014 )1924 – Henry Mancini , American componer an conductor (d. 1994 )1927 – Pape Benedict XVI 1938 – Gordon Wilson , Scots politeecian (d. 2017 )1939 – Dusty Springfield , Inglis sangster (d. 1999 )1940 – Queen Margrethe II o Denmark 1947 – Gerry Rafferty , Scots muisicker (d. 2011 )1955 – Henri, Grand Duke o Luxembourg 1960 – Rafael Benitez , Spainyie fitbaa manager1965 – Martin Lawrence , American actor1971 – Selena , American sangster-sangwriter (d. 1995 )1973 – Akon , American sangster1977 – Fredrik Ljungberg , Swadish fitbawer1984 – Darryl Duffy , Scots fitbawer1986 – Shinji Okazaki , Japanese fitbawer1993 – Chance the Rapper , American sangster an rapper
Daiths
69 - Otho , Roman Emperor (b. 32 )1828 - Francisco Goya , Spaingie penter (b. 1746 )1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville , French historian an politeecian (b. 1761 )1884 - Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5t Duke o Buccleuch (b. 1806 )1914 - Samuel Rutherford Crockett , Scots novelist (b. 1860 )1958 - Rosalind Franklin , Inglis scientist (b. 1920 )1972 - Yasunari Kawabata , Japanese writer (b. 1899 )1980 - Lawrence Ogilvie , Scots plant pathologist (b. 1898 )1991 - David Lean , Inglis film director (b. 1908 )2014 - Gyude Bryant , Liberie politeecian (b. 1949 )2014 - Frank Kopel , Scots fitbawer (b. 1949 )2015 - Tommy Preston , Scots fitbawer (b. 1932 )
Halidays
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