April 16

April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). There are 259 days remaining.

Events

• 1071 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy
• 1746 - Battle of Culloden, in Scotland, the last battle of the Jacobite Rising; the destruction of the Highland clans
• 1799 - Battle of Mount Tabor; Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
• 1917 - Vladmir Lenin returns from exile
• 1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychic effects of LSD
• 1947 - A fire begun aboard a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas to catch fire, killing almost 600
• 1996 - France Telecom introduces its Wanadoo Internet service
• 1997 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, a Houston, Texas socialite, is murdered in her River Oaks home. Roger Nicholas Angleton, Doris' husband, was found innocent of the crime by a Texas jury, although he would later admit to killing her in a suicide note.
• 1998 - One of the most serious urban tornadoes in history does significant damage to downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

Births

• 1755 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, painter († 1842)
• 1844 - Anatole France, narrator and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1921 († 1924)
• 1867 - Wilbur Wright, pioneer pilot († 1912)
• 1886 - Ernst Thälmann, politician († 1944)
• 1889 - Charlie Chaplin, actor, writer and film producer († 1977)
• 1904 - Fifi D'Orsay, actress († 1983)
• 1918 - Spike Milligan, comedian
• 1919 - Merce Cunningham, dancer, choreographer
• 1921 - Peter Ustinov, writer, actor and film director
• 1922 - Kingsley Amis, author († 1995)
• 1924 - Henry Mancini, film and TV composer, "Moon River", Peter Gunn
• 1927 - Joseph Ratzinger, cardinal
• 1930 - Herbie Mann, jazz flute player
• 1935 - Sarah Kirsch, lyricist
• 1939 - Dusty Springfield, singer († 1999)
• 1940 - Queen Margaret II of Denmark
• 1946 - Bobby Vinton, singer
• 1947 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball star
• 1962 - Ian MacKaye, musician
• 1965 - Martin Lawrence, actor, comedian, producer

Deaths

• 744 - al-Walid II ibn Abd al-Malik, Umayyad caliph
• 1788 - Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, naturalist (* 1707)
• 1828 - Francisco de Goya, spanish painter
• 1914 - George William Hill, astronomer (* 1838)
• 1946 - Arthur Chevolet, pioneer automobile racer and designer
• 1968 - Edna Ferber, author
• 1991 - David Lean, director
• 1992 - Neville Brand, actor
• 1997 - Doris Angleton, Houston, Texas socialite (* 1951)

Holidays and observances

• Birthday of the Queen celebrated in Greenland

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