16 Aprile

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 
 1705 - 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 
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 manager
1965 – Martin Lawrence, American actor
1971 – Selena, American sangster-sangwriter (d. 1995)
1973 – Akon, American sangster
1977 – Fredrik Ljungberg, Swadish fitbawer
1984 – Darryl Duffy, Scots fitbawer
1986 – Shinji Okazaki, Japanese fitbawer
1993 – 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 
 Birthday o Queen Margrethe II o Denmark
 Emancipation Day (Washington, DC)
 Warld Vyce Day

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Category:Days o the year