What are the important events that happened on April 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 16: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 16 is the 107th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 259 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 3, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 475,896 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptagon’ day.
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Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 288 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,134 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 16 Historical Events
- 1457 BC –Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
- 1178 BC –The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus’ return home from the Trojan War.
- 1818 –The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
- 1853 –The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Battle at Lee’s Mills in Virginia.
- 1908 –Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
- 1944 –Allied forces started bombing of Belgrade, killing about 1,100 people. This bombing fell on the Orthodox Christian Easter.
- 1945 –More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.
- 1990 –The “Doctor of Death”, Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
- 2001 –India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
Who were born on April 16?
- 1848 –Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Indian social reformer (d. 1919)
- 1904 –Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
- 1921 –Peter Ustinov, English actor (d. 2004)
- 1924 –Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1976)
- 1938 –Rich Rollins, American baseball player
- 1955 –Bruce Bochy, American baseball player and manager
- 1960 –Rafael Benítez, Spanish football manager
- 1976 –Dan Kellner, American fencer
- 1987 –Aaron Lennon, English footballer
- 1993 –Mirai Nagasu, American figure skater
Who died on April 16?
- 1118 –Adelaide del Vasto, wife of Roger II of Sicily
- 1687 –George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1628)
- 1828 –Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
- 1850 –Marie Tussaud, founder of the Madame Tussauds wax museum (b. 1761)
- 1947 –Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900)
- 1955 –David Kirkwood, Scottish labor leader (b. 1872)
- 1958 –Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
- 1991 –Sir David Lean, British film director (b. 1908)
- 2002 –Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
- 2005 –Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist (b. 1976)
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