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Events

• 1799 (227 years ago) French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
• 1917 (109 years ago) Russian Revolution: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
• 1919 (107 years ago) Polish–Lithuanian War: The Polish Army launches the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius in modern Lithuania.
• 1919 (107 years ago) Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
• 1941 (85 years ago) World War II: The Italian-German Tarigo convoy is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
• 2001 (25 years ago) India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
• 2003 (23 years ago) The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
• 2014 (12 years ago) The South Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks near Jindo Island, killing 304 passengers and crew and leading to widespread criticism of the South Korean government, media, and shipping authorities.

Births

• 1844 (182 years ago) Anatole France, French journalist, novelist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1924)
• 1867 (159 years ago) Wilbur Wright, American inventor (died 1912)
• 1889 (137 years ago) Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (died 1977)
• 1921 (105 years ago) Peter Ustinov, English actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2004)
• 1927 (99 years ago) Pope Benedict XVI,
• 1940 (86 years ago) Queen Margrethe II of Denmark,
• 1971 (55 years ago) Selena, American singer-songwriter, actress, and fashion designer (died 1995)
• 1973 (53 years ago) Akon, Senegalese-American singer, rapper and songwriter

Deaths

• 69 (1957 years ago) Otho, Roman emperor (born AD 32)
• 1689 (337 years ago) Aphra Behn, English author and playwright (born 1640)
• 1788 (238 years ago) Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French mathematician, cosmologist, and author (born 1707)
• 1828 (198 years ago) Francisco Goya, Spanish-French painter and illustrator (born 1746)
• 1859 (167 years ago) Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and philosopher, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1805)
• 1879 (147 years ago) Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and saint (born 1844)
• 1958 (68 years ago) Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist and academic (born 1920)
• 1972 (54 years ago) Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)

All 374 events, births and deaths of April 16