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.
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Memorial to the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre -
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Bernard Baruch -
MV Sewol -
Harriet Quimby
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| ; Emancipation Day in Washington, D.C. | sources not reliable |
| Queen Margrethe II's birthday in Denmark | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| 1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founded the settlement of Salta in Argentina. | refimprove |
| 1746 – Forces of the House of Hanover defeated the Jacobites at the Battle of Culloden, the final confrontation of the Jacobite Rising. | refimprove section |
| 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. | refimprove sections |
| 1881 – Famed lawman Bat Masterson of the American Old West engaged in his last gun battle before later becoming a journalist. | many CN tags |
| 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. | refimprove |
| 1941 – World War II: After the Axis invasion of Yugoslavia ten days earlier, Ante Pavelić declared a new government in Croatia to be led by the fascist Ustashe. | many CN tags, section missing summary |
| 1945 – World War II: Nearly one million Soviet soldiers began the Battle of the Seelow Heights against the "Gates of Berlin". | refimprove section |
| 1947 – Thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate in the port of Texas City, Texas, exploded, killing 581 people, which later led to the first ever class action lawsuit against the U.S. government. | refimprove |
| 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. | no footnotes |
Eligible
- 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.
- 1862 – Slavery in Washington, D.C., ended when the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act became law.
- 1917 – World War I: A massive assault by several French army corps against the German-occupied Chemin des Dames ridge began south of Laon, France.
- 1919 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius (now in modern Lithuania) from the Red Army.
- 1947 – American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch first described the post–World War II tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States as a "cold war".
- 1963 – Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote his Letter from Birmingham Jail in response to an open letter written by white clergymen four days earlier.
- 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.
- Born/died: Tabinshwehti (b. 1516) · Francisco Goya (d. 1828) · John Millington Synge (b. 1871)
April 16: Patriots' Day in various U.S. states (2018)
- 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.
- 1847 – New Zealand Wars: A minor Māori chief was accidentally shot by a junior British Army officer in the Petre settlement of New Zealand's North Island, triggering the Wanganui Campaign.
- 1912 – American Harriet Quimby (pictured) became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
- 1917 – Vladimir Lenin returned to Petrograd from Switzerland, and joined the Bolshevik movement in Russia.
- 2014 – The South Korean ferry MV Sewol sank 1.5 km (0.93 mi) offshore of Donggeochado, Jindo County, with around 300 of the 476 onboard killed.
Molly Brant (d. 1796) · Ponnambalam Ramanathan (b. 1851) · Khalil al-Wazir (d. 1988)