About April 16

April 16, 2025 is the 106th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 259 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

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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 307 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.
  • 73 –
    Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.
  • 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.
  • 1780 –
    The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
  • 1799 –
    Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
  • 1818 –
    The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
  • 1847 –
    The accidental shooting of a Māori by an English sailor results in the opening of the Wanganui Campaign of the New Zealand land wars.
  • 1853 –
    The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
  • 1858 –
    The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
  • 1881 –
    In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
  • 1912 –
    Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
  • 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.
  • 1944 –
    Allied forces started bombing of Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
  • 1945 –
    The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
  • 1947 –
    Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
  • 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.
  • 1992 –
    The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
  • 2003 –
    The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.

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