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

1888: German annexation o Nauru

1908: Naitural Brigs Naitional Monument

1972: Apollo 16 launch

• 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

Pape Benedict XVI

• 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