16 Aprile
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The 16t o Aprile is the 106t day o the year (107t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 259 days ti come.
Events
- 1705 - Isaac Newton becomes a "Sir".
- 1746 - Seicont Jacobite Uprisin: Battle o Culloden, the hindmaist battle o the Jacobite Uprisin wis fochten, at the hinnerend it led tae the the Hieland clans bein malafoustert.
- 1848 - The Unitit States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, staiblishin the mairch wi Canadae.
- 1888 - Germany annexes Nauru.
- 1894 - Manchester City F.C. is foondit.
- 1908 - The Naitural Brigs Naitional Monument is creatit in Utah.
- 1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman tae flee across the Inglis Chainel.
- 1925 - A Communist assault on Saunt Nedelya Kirk in Sofia, Bulgarie, kills 150 fowk.
- 1941 - Warld War II: Italian convoy "Duisburg" is destroyed bi Breetish ships.
- 1943 - Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects o LSD.
- 1944 - Warld War II: Allied bombin o Belgrade.
- 1945 - Warld War II: The Reid Airmy stairts its feenal assault on Berlin.
- 1945 - Warld War II: German refugee ship "Goya" is sunk bi a Soviet submarine, killin 7,000 fowk.
- 1947 - Bernard Baruch first uses the term "Cauld War".
- 1947 - Texas Ceety, Texas, is set on fire bi a splosion on a freighter, killin 600 fowk.
- 1961 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares himsel a Marxist-Leninist.
- 1972 - Apollo 16 launches tae the Muin.
- 2001 - Indie an Bangladesh stairt a five-day mairch war.
- 2003 - The Treaty o Accession is signed, for 10 new members tae jyn the European Union in 2004.
- 2007 - 33 fowk are kilt in the Virginie Tech massacre.
- 2012 - Anders Behring Breivik goes on trial for the 2011 Norawa attacks.
- 2014 - The "MV Sewol" ferry sinks aff Jindo Island, Sooth Korea, killin 295 fowk.
- 2016 - A major yirdquauk hits Ecuador.
- 2017 - A nairae majority support chyngin Turkey's seestem o govrenment tae a Preses republic in a referendum.
- 2019 - The fire that stairtit at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris the previous e'en is extinguished.
Births
- 1728 – Joseph Black, Scots scientist (d. 1799)
- 1800 – William Chambers, Scots publisher (d. 1883)
- 1844 – Anatole France, French jurnalist, author, an poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
- 1867 – Wilbur Wright, American aviator (d. 1912)
- 1868 – Spottiswoode Aitken, Scots actor (d. 1933)
- 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, Inglis actor, director, producer, screenwriter, an componer (d. 1977)
- 1896 – Tristan Tzara, Romanie-French poet (d. 1963)
- 1921 – Peter Ustinov, Inglis actor, director, producer, an screenwriter (d. 2004)
- 1922 – Kingsley Amis, Inglis novelist, poet, creetic an teacher (d. 1995)
- 1922 – Leo Tindemans, Belgian politeecian, 43rd Prime meenister o Belgium (d. 2014)
- 1924 – Henry Mancini, American componer an conductor (d. 1994)
- 1927 – Pape Benedict XVI
- 1938 – Gordon Wilson, Scots politeecian (d. 2017)
- 1939 – Dusty Springfield, Inglis sangster (d. 1999)
- 1940 – Queen Margrethe II o Denmark
- 1947 – Gerry Rafferty, Scots muisicker (d. 2011)
- 1955 – Henri, Grand Duke o Luxembourg
- 1960 – Rafael Benitez, Spainyie fitbaa manager
- 1965 – Martin Lawrence, American actor
- 1971 – Selena, American sangster-sangwriter (d. 1995)
- 1973 – Akon, American sangster
- 1977 – Fredrik Ljungberg, Swadish fitbawer
- 1984 – Darryl Duffy, Scots fitbawer
- 1986 – Shinji Okazaki, Japanese fitbawer
- 1993 – Chance the Rapper, American sangster an rapper
Daiths
- 69 - Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
- 1828 - Francisco Goya, Spaingie penter (b. 1746)
- 1859 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian an politeecian (b. 1761)
- 1884 - Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, 5t Duke o Buccleuch (b. 1806)
- 1914 - Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Scots novelist (b. 1860)
- 1958 - Rosalind Franklin, Inglis scientist (b. 1920)
- 1972 - Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer (b. 1899)
- 1980 - Lawrence Ogilvie, Scots plant pathologist (b. 1898)
- 1991 - David Lean, Inglis film director (b. 1908)
- 2014 - Gyude Bryant, Liberie politeecian (b. 1949)
- 2014 - Frank Kopel, Scots fitbawer (b. 1949)
- 2015 - Tommy Preston, Scots fitbawer (b. 1932)
Halidays
- Birthday o Queen Margrethe II o Denmark
- Emancipation Day (Washington, DC)
- Warld Vyce Day
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