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April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). There are 259 days remaining.

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• 1178 BC - A solar eclipse may mark the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca to his Kingdom after the Trojan War.
• 1071 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy.
• 1746 - Second Jacobite Rebellion: Battle of Culloden - In Scotland, the last battle of the Jacobite RisingThis article is not about the Jacobite Orthodox Church, nor is it about Jacobinism. While military campaigns are covered in outline, for details see Jacobite Rising. Jacobitism was the political movement dedicated to the restoration of the Stuart kings to; the destruction of the Highland clan s
• 1799Events March 1 Federalist James Ross becomes President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate. March 7 Napoleon captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives. March 29 New York passes a law aimed at graduall - Napoleonic WarsThe Napoleonic Wars lasted from 1804 until 1815. They were a continuation of the conflicts sparked by the French Revolution and covered the duration of the First French Empire. The First and Second Coalitions For a more detailed account see the French Rev: Battle of Mount Tabor - Napoleon drives Ottoman TurksThe Ottoman Turks were the ethnic subdivision of the Turkic people who dominated the ruling class of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans were first known to the west in 1227, when they fled the Mongol Empire into the Seljuk Empire in what is now called Anato across the River Jordan near AcreThis article is about the unit of measure known as the acre''. For other definitions, see Acre (disambiguation). An acre is a measure of land area in Imperial units or U. customary units. It is equal to 43 560 square feet, or 4840 square yards. The precis.
• 1863Events January-March January 1 Abraham Lincoln delivers the Emancipation Proclamation during the second year of the American Civil War. January 1 The first claim under the Homestead Act is made for a farm in Nebraska January 8 Ground is broken in Sacramen - American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg - 12 ships lead by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi. Only one ship was lost.
• 1881 - In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
• 1912 - Harriett Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
• 1917 - Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd (present-day Saint Petersburg) from exile in Finland.
• 1919 - Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the British slaughter of Indian protestors during the Amritsar Massacre. By organizing this event, Gandhi indirectly opposed the British government by temporarily halting the economy (as no Hindus worked on that day).
• 1922 - The Treaty of Rapallo, in which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations between Berlin and Moscow, is signed.
• 1926 - Lolly Willows by Sylvia Townsend Warner is distributed as the first Book-of-the-Month Club selection
• 1935 - Radio program Fibber McGee and Molly debuts.
• 1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD
• 1945 - WWII: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin
• 1947 - Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas to catch fire, killing almost 600.
• 1947 - Bernard Baruch coins the term " Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
• 1949 - Dave Garroway moves to television from radio to host the musical-variety show Garroway at Large .
• 1963 - Valentina Tereshkova lifts off in the Vostok-6 space capsule to become the first woman in space.
• 1972 - Apollo program: Apollo 16 launches toward the Moon from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 1972 - Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive - Prompted by the North Vietnamese offensive, the United States resumes bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong.
• 1992 - The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
• 1996 - France Telecom introduces its Wanadoo Internet service
• 1997 - Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, a Houston, Texas socialite, is murdered in her River Oaks home. Robert Nicholas Angleton, Doris' husband, was found innocent of the crime by a Texas jury. His brother, Roger Nicholas Angleton would later admit to killing her in a suicide note.
• 1998 - One of the most serious urban tornadoes in history does significant damage to downtown Nashville, Tennessee (see Nashville Tornado of 1998).
• 2001 - First 3G voice call on Vodafone UK's 3G network.