What Happened On April 16 - On This Day

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  • Egyptian forces under the command of Pharaoh Thutmose III battle a large rebellious coalition of Canaanite vassal states led by the King of Kadesh

    Battle of Megiddo

    1457 BC Battle of Megiddo: Egyptian forces of Thutmose III defeat a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh. First battle recorded with a reliable account.
  • 1705 Queen Anne of England knights scientist Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge
  • 1746 Battle of Culloden: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart in the final battle of the Jacobite Rising on British soil
  • 1900 US Post Office issues its first stamp booklets containing 12, 24, or 48 two-cent stamps [1]
  • 1948 Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) forms in Paris
  • 2003 Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens, admitting 10 new member states to the European Union
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  • 1932 Short film "The Music Box" is released in the US, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (1932 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film)
  • 1849 Giacomo Meyerbeer's opera "Le prophète" premieres in Paris
  • 1929 Cleveland Indians become the first MLB team to permanently feature numbers on the backs of uniforms; numbers correspond to the position in the batting order

Swiss scientist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD

April 16, 1943

  • Louis the Pious

    778 AD - 840 AD
  • Wilbur Wright

    1867 - 1912
  • Benedict XVI

    1927 - 2022
  • Margrethe II

    85 Years Old
  • Antony Blinken

    63 Years Old
More Birthdays on April 16
  • Charlie Chaplin

    1889 - 1977
  • Spike Milligan

    1918 - 2002
  • Jon Cryer

    60 Years Old
  • Martin Lawrence

    60 Years Old
  • Claire Foy

    41 Years Old
  • Anya Taylor-Joy

    29 Years Old
  • Henry Mancini

    1924 - 1994
  • Akon

    52 Years Old
  • Chance the Rapper

    32 Years Old
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

    78 Years Old
  • Bill Belichick

    73 Years Old
  • Conchita Martínez

    53 Years Old

World record for gathering of Charlie Chaplin lookalikes - 662 at Manoir de Ban, Chaplin's World in Vevey, Switzerland

April 16, 2017

  • 1966 Actor and comedian Michael Palin (22) weds Helen Gibbins
  • 1994 American singer and piano player Harry Connick, Jr. (26) weds American model Jill Goodacre (30) at St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans, Louisiana
  • 1994 British actor Dudley Moore (58) weds actress Nicole Rothschild; divorced in 1998
  • 1816 Leading Romantic poet Lord Byron signs Deed of Separation dissolving his marriage with Lady Byron at her request after 1 year of marriage
More April 16 Weddings
  • Francisco Goya

    1746 - 1828
  • Madame Tussaud

    1761 - 1850
  • Rosalind Franklin

    1920 - 1958
  • William Eckert

    1909 - 1971
  • David Lean

    1908 - 1991
  • Pat Summerall

    1930 - 2013
More April 16 Deaths
  • Madame Tussaud as depicted at her waxworks in London

    Madame Tussaud's Bloody Background

    Madame Tussaud, famous for her waxworks, perfected her art in the grimmest of 'schools' – the French Revolution - where she made models of guillotined heads. April 16, 1850
  • The assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Lithograph by Gibson & Co., published in 1870

    Weekly Quiz for April 13 - 19

    Who was the first black actor or actress to win an Academy Award? Who shot US President Abraham Lincoln? Is there an effective vaccine for typhoid?
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  • Charles Dickens was to write a compassionate letter to his wife after their daughter's death

    Tragedy Writ Large for Charles Dickens

    April 14, 1851
  • How one American newspaper reported the Titanic disaster

    Iceberg Sinks 'Unsinkable' Titanic

    April 15, 1912
  • John Heenan, left, squares up to Tom Sayers in their championship bout. Photograph: Hulton Archive

    Police Halt Boxing Match

    April 17, 1860
  • Lucrezia Borgia, as depicted in a contemporary painting

    Wicked or Sinless? The Life of Lucrezia Borgia

    April 18, 1480
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