About April 16
April 16, 2024 is the 107th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 259 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Aries is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 288 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 16
- 1457 BC –Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
- 1346 –Dušan the Mighty is proclaimed Emperor, with the Serbian Empire occupying much of the Balkans.
- 1521 –Martin Luther’s first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire.
- 1582 –Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
- 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 after the battle many highland traditions were banned and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.
- 1799 –Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
- 1853 –The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
- 1862 –American Civil War: A bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia becomes law.
- 1881 –In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
- 1908 –Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
- 1917 –Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland.
- 1919 –Gandhi organizes a day of “prayer and fasting” in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre by the British.
- 1922 –The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
- 1941 –World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
- 1945 –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).
- 1953 –Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht Ship HMY.
- 1962 –Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become “the most trusted man in America”.
- 1972 –Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- 2007 –President of Côte d'Ivoire Laurent Gbagbo declares the First Ivorian Civil War to be over.
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