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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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 |
| 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. | many CN tags in one section |
| 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. | many CN tags |
| 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. | 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 |
| 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". | multiple issues |
| 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
- 1862 – Slavery in Washington, D.C., ended when the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act became law.
- 1912 – American pilot Harriet Quimby 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.
- 1917 – World War I: Several French army corps began a massive assault against the German-occupied Chemin des Dames ridge, south of Laon, France.
- 1919 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius (now in Lithuania) from the Red Army.
- 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: John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (d. 1375) | Tabinshwehti (b. 1516) | Molly Brant (d. 1796) | Ponnambalam Ramanathan (b. 1851) | John Millington Synge (b. 1871) | Francisco Goya (d. 1828) | R. Carlos Nakai (b. 1946) | Khalil al-Wazir (d. 1988)
April 16: Feast day of Saint Bernadette Soubirous (Catholicism)
- 1520 – Citizens of Toledo, Castile, opposed to the rule of the foreign-born Charles I, revolted when the royal government attempted to unseat radical city councilors.
- 1853 – The first passenger train of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, a predecessor of the modern-day Indian Railways, travelled from Bombay to Tanna.
- 1963 – In response to an open letter written by white clergymen four days earlier, Martin Luther King Jr. (pictured) wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail, defending the strategy of nonviolent resistance against racism.
- 2014 – The ferry MV Sewol sank 1.5 km (0.93 mi) off Donggeochado, South Korea, killing 304 of 476 passengers on board, most of whom were students from Danwon High School.
- Fructuosus of Braga (d. 665)
- Harry Chauvel (b. 1865)
- Joan Bakewell (b. 1933)