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 &ndash; Joseph Black, Scots scientist (d. 1799)
*1800 &ndash; William Chambers, Scots publisher (d. 1883)
*1844 &ndash; Anatole France, French jurnalist, author, an poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
*1867 &ndash; Wilbur Wright, American aviator (d. 1912)
*1868 &ndash; Spottiswoode Aitken, Scots actor (d. 1933)
*1889 &ndash; Charlie Chaplin, Inglis actor, director, producer, screenwriter, an componer (d. 1977)
*1896 &ndash; Tristan Tzara, Romanie-French poet (d. 1963)
*1921 &ndash; Peter Ustinov, Inglis actor, director, producer, an screenwriter (d. 2004)
*1922 &ndash; Kingsley Amis, Inglis novelist, poet, creetic an teacher (d. 1995)
*1922 &ndash; Leo Tindemans, Belgian politeecian, 43rd Prime meenister o Belgium (d. 2014)
*1924 &ndash; Henry Mancini, American componer an conductor (d. 1994)
*1927 &ndash; Pape Benedict XVI
*1938 &ndash; Gordon Wilson, Scots politeecian (d. 2017)
*1939 &ndash; Dusty Springfield, Inglis sangster (d. 1999)
*1940 &ndash; Queen Margrethe II o Denmark
*1947 &ndash; Gerry Rafferty, Scots muisicker (d. 2011)
*1955 &ndash; Henri, Grand Duke o Luxembourg
*1960 &ndash; Rafael Benitez, Spainyie fitbaa manager
*1965 &ndash; Martin Lawrence, American actor
*1971 &ndash; Selena, American sangster-sangwriter (d. 1995)
*1973 &ndash; Akon, American sangster
*1977 &ndash; Fredrik Ljungberg, Swadish fitbawer
*1984 &ndash; Darryl Duffy, Scots fitbawer
*1986 &ndash; Shinji Okazaki, Japanese fitbawer
*1993 &ndash; 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