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This is a list of selected April 16 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founded the settlement of Salta in Argentina. needs more footnotes
1746 – Forces of the House of Hanover defeated the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden, the final confrontation of the Jacobite Rising. refimprove section
1912 – American Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel. unreferenced section
1917Vladimir Lenin returned to Petrograd from Switzerland, and joined the Bolshevik movement in Russia. lead too short
1925 – A group of Bulgarian Communist Party members assaulted the St Nedelya Church in Sofia, Bulgaria, during the funeral service of General Konstantin Georgiev, killing 150 people and injuring about 500 others. no footnotes
1947 – Thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate in the port of Texas City, Texas, exploded, killing 581 people in the Texas City Disaster, which later led to the first ever class action lawsuit against the U.S. government. needs more footnotes
1947 – American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch (pictured) first described the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war". neutrality disputed
2003 – The Treaty of Accession was signed in Athens, admitting ten new member states into the European Union, including several countries of the former Eastern Bloc. merge candidate, kind of short

Eligible

April 16: Patriots' Day (Massachusetts and Maine, 2012); Emancipation Day in Washington, D.C.

Memorial to the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre

  • 1853 – The first passenger line of what would become Indian Railways, the state-owned railway company of India, opened between Bombay (now Mumbai) and Thane.
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