April 16th 1457 BC The Battle of Megido takes place. First battle to have been recorded in relatively reliable detail. Egypt vs Canaan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Megiddo_(15th_century_BC)
April 16th 73 AD Masada falls to the Romans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Masada
April 16th 1520 The revolts of the citizens against Charles V begins in Toledo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Comuneros
April 16th 1746 The Battle of Culloden takes place
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden
April 16th 1799 Napoleon defeats the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Mount Tabor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mount_Tabor_(1799)
April 16th 1838 The French capture Veracruz during The Pastry War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Veracruz_(1838)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastry_War
April 16th 1862 American Civil War,. Battle at Lee Mills
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Yorktown_(1862)
April 16th 1881 in Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle
April 16th 1912 Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly across the English Channel
April 16th 1917 Vladimir Lenin arrives in Petrograd from exile in Switzerland
April 16th 1919 Gandhi organises a day of prayer abnd fasting in response to the Amritsar massacre three days earlier
April 16th 1925 During the communist St Nedelya Church assault 150 people are killed and 500 injured
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nedelya_Church_assault
April 16th 1941 the Italian-German Tango convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Tarigo_Convoy
April 16th 1945 Te Russians begin their final assault on Berlin with the Battle of the Seelow Heights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Seelow_Heights
The US army liberates Colditz
The German transport ship Goya is sunk by a Russian submarine with the loss of 7,000 lives
April 16th 1947 An explosion aboard a freighter causes a fire in Texas City, Texas that leads to 600 deaths
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster
April 16th 2003 The Treaty of Accession leads to 10 countries joining the European Union
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Accession_2003
April 16th 2007 Virginia Tech shooting. 32 people are killed and 17 are injured before the killer commits suicide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shooting
April 16th 2013 Boko Haram engage government troops and begin a massacre in Nigeria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Baga_massacre
April 16th 2014 A south Korean ferry capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island killing 304
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_MV_Sewol
April 16th 2016 The worst earthquake in 40 years in Ecuador kills 676 and injures over 6,000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Ecuador_earthquake
Born this day Charlie Chaplin, Guy Burgess (spy for the Russians), Spike Milligan, Peter Ustinov, Henry Mancini, Pope Benedict XVI, John Harvey Jones (British businessman), Joan Bakewell, Vince Hill, Bobby Vinton, Dusty Springfield, Sir Frank Williams (founder of Williams racing team), Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Gerry Rafferty, Ellen Barkin, Jimmy Osmond, Jon Cryer, Martin Lawrence, Vickie Guerrero, Conchita Martinez, Lukas Haas, Gina Carano, Claire Foy, Chance the Rapper and Anna Taylor Joy
Dies this day Otho (Roman Emperor by suicide), Marie Tussard, Rudolf Hoss (Auschwitz commandant executed), David Lean, Neville Brand, Robert Urich and Helen McCrory
5 dead after stabbings in a mall in Sydney, Australia. Female police officer shot and killed attacker
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-australia-68805458
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