Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 16
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.
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Vladimir Lenin
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Bernard Baruch
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 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 |
| 1917 – Vladimir 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
- 1818 – The United States Senate ratified the Rush–Bagot Treaty, which laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary between the U.S. and British North America.
April 16: Patriots' Day (Massachusetts and Maine, 2012); Emancipation Day in Washington, D.C.
- 1520 – Citizens of Toledo, Castile, who were opposed to the rule of the foreign-born Charles V, rose up in revolt when the royal government attempted to unseat radical city councilors.
- 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.
- 1919 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius (now in modern Lithuania) from the Red Army.
- 2001 – India and Bangladesh began a five-day conflict over their disputed border, which ended in a stalemate.
- 2007 – In one of the deadliest shooting incidents in United States history, a gunman killed 32 people and wounded over 20 more before committing suicide at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia (memorial pictured).