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16 April, 2007

Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing suicide.

16 April, 2004

The super liner Queen Mary 2 embarks on her first Trans-Atlantic crossing, linking the golden age of ocean travel to the modern age of ocean travel.

16 April, 2003

The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.

16 April, 1992

The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.

16 April, 1990

The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, goes through with his first assisted suicide.

16 April, 1988

In Forlì, Italy, Red Brigades kill Italian Senator Roberto Ruffilli, an advisor to Prime Minister Ciriaco de Mita.

16 April, 1987

British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates Court in London charged with gross indecency.

16 April, 1972

Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

16 April, 1972

Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive – prompted by the North Vietnamese offensive, the United States resumes the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong.

16 April, 1964

Great Train Robbery - 12 men are sentenced to a total of 307 years.

16 April, 1963

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.

16 April, 1953

Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht Britannia.

16 April, 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.

16 April, 1947

Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

16 April, 1946

Syria gains independence.

16 April, 1945

The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin.

16 April, 1945

The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) Prisoner of War camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz Castle).

16 April, 1945

More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.

16 April, 1943

Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.

16 April, 1941

World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.

16 April, 1941

Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.

16 April, 1925

During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.

16 April, 1922

The Treaty of Rapallo, in which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations between Berlin and Moscow, is signed.

16 April, 1919

Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the British slaughter of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre.

16 April, 1917

Vladimir Lenin returns to Saint Petersburg from exile in Finland.

16 April, 1912

Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.

16 April, 1881

In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.

16 April, 1863

American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

16 April, 1862

American Civil War: The Battle at Lees Mills in Virginia.

16 April, 1862

American Civil War: A bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia becomes law.

16 April, 1858

The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.

16 April, 1853

The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.

16 April, 1799

Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.

16 April, 1780

The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.

16 April, 1746

The Battle of Culloden takes place.

16 April, 1582

Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.

16 April, 1521

Martin Luthers first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire.

16 April, 1395

Azzo X dEste is defeated at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Venetian-Ferrarese troops.

16 April, 1346

The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje by Dusan Silni, occupying much of the South-Eastern Europe.

16 April, 1071

Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy.

16 April, 73

Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.

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