16. April

That 16. April is the 106. Day of the Gregorian calendar (the 107. in leap years), thus still 259 days up to the year end remain.

of events

politics

• 1246: Friedrich of Hochstaden gives the county Hochstaden to its brother Konrad von Hochstaden, the archbishop of Cologne, for incorporation into thatOre diocese Cologne.
• 1525: Weinsberger blood act, killing of the count Ludwig von Helfenstein by insurgent farmers before wine mountain (German farmer war)
• 1746: The battle with Culloden in Scotland terminates the rebellion of the Jakobiten.
• 1780: Those Westfäli William university in Münster is created.
• 1856: Piraterie is outlawed in the declaration of Paris internationally as illegal.
• 1871: The Bismarck realm condition is adopted as law and to the legal basis for the German empire.
• 1888: That German Reich acquires the island Nauru.
• 1896: Ecuador: President Eloy Alfaro provides for the separation from church and state, as well as for freedom of religion.
• 1900: In the USA the first Briefmarkenheftchen is sold.
• 1917: Lenin turns outSwiss exile after pc. Petersburg back.
• 1922: With the contract of Rapallo between Germany and Russia both countries do without substitution of the war costs and the payment of the war damage of the other side.
• 1945: With the attack upthe Seelower heights begins the battle around Berlin.
• 1950: The British interrupt their bomb releases on Helgoland, which served since end of war as training target.
• 1962: Georges Pompidou becomes a French Prime Minister.
• 1974: With a Armeeputsch in the Niger president Hamani Diori is fallen and replaced by Seyni Kountché.
• 1987: The United States Naval Special of throwing acres COMMAND, the guidance command for the special-purpose forces of US Navy, is set up.
• 1991: George H. W. Bush quits the mechanismof protected zones for Kurds in the north Iraq on.
• 1992: Ahmed Schah Massud transfers power with the help of the Mujahedin to Kabul.
• 2002: The Netherlands government steps 4 weeks before parliament the elections because of the joint responsibility for that Massacre of Srebrenica (Bosnia) back.
• 2003: The state and head of the government of the past fifteen European Union states and the ten new east and Southeast-European member countries sign the treaties of accession in Athens for European Union extension to the East.
• 2004: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero becomesfrom the Spanish parliament to the Prime Minister selected. Thus it replaces the conservative José María Aznar , that due to its information politics in connection with the Madrider course notices in the cross fire of the criticism is guessed/advised and thus the elections of one month ago clearlylost.

economics

• 1903: Canada decides the collection of import duties on German goods.
• 1948: 16 European states base into of Paris the organization for European and economic co-operation (OEEC).
• 1996: In Germany becomesthe cultivation of hemp again permits, whereby the Tetrahydrocannabinol - content 0.3% not to exceed may.

science and technology

• 1705: Isaac Newton is struck for its earnings/services around the science by queen Anne to the knight.
• 1943: Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers with Sandoz coincidentally the psychoaktive effect LSD, which he already manufactured 1938 on its search for a Kreislaufstimulans.
• 1972: Start of the Apollo 16 mission.
• 1982: The first German „retort baby“one bears in attaining.

culture

• 1722: Premiere of the musical play the incomparable psyche of pure hard Keiser in Copenhagen.
• 1782: Premiere of the opera Adriano in Siria of Luigi Cherubini in Livorno.
• 1849:Premiere of the opera Le Prophète (the prophet) of Giacomo Meyerbeer to the Grand Opéra Paris.
• 1851: Premiere of the opera Sapho (Sappho) of Charles Gounod in Paris.
• 1900: Premiere of the drama master Oelze of Johannes sleep in Magdeburg.
• 1905: Premiere of the opera Jessika of Josef Bohuslav Foerster at the national theatre Prague.
• 1919: The opera Don Ranudo of Othmar Schoeck is uraufgeführt in Zurich.
• 1940: Premiere of the opera Maryša of Emil František Burian in Brünn (Brno).
• 1958: Premiere of the opera Nana of Manfred Gurlitt in Dortmund.
• 1970: In Darmstadt Heinrich Boell becomes at the three-day-long general assembly of the P.E.N. - Center of Germany to the new president selected.
• 1972: Premiere thatOpera still another spoon poison, favourite of Siegfried Matthus at the amusing opera Berlin.
• 1988: Premiere of the opera Beatrice Cenci of Berthold Goldschmidt in London.

religion

• 1521: Martin Luther arrives in Worms.He is to recall its theses before Reichstag on both subsequent days to Worms.
• 1909: Jeanne d'Arc, „the virgin of Orleans “, becomes of Pope Pius X. in Rome blessedly.
• 1927: Birthday of Josef Ratzinger, the later Pope Benedikt XVI..
• 1984: Muzaffer Efendi, the 19. Sheikh of the Dscherrahi - Tariqa, visits its -wipes in New York.
• 2005: Office introduction of Gerhard fig as a new catholic bishop of Magdeburg.

disasters

• 1850: Collapse of the suspension bridge of meadow (France) due to the resonance, which is caused by 730 soldiers marching in the equal step. 226 humans die.
• 1945: Sinking the German ship Goya in the Baltic Sea, loaded with refugees before the pommerschen coast by the Soviet submarine demands L3 approx. 7.200 dead ones, 175 humans can be saved. On the same day in the year 2003 the wreck is discovered.
• 1947: The explosion of the cargo ships Grandcamp (France loaded with nitrate of ammonia) and Highflyer the USA in the port of Texas town center (Texas) leads to 486 victims, across 100 missed, 3000 hurt, hundreds homeless people and 65 million US Dollar damage.

sport

• 1996: Chicago Bulls with Michael Jordanwins their 70. Play within a NBA - season and are thus the first team of league history, which reaches this mark.

Entries from athlete IC world records are under the respective discipline under Leichtathletik; for events within the range formula 1 see there.

born

Johann II., mentioned that property (1319-1364)

• 0,936: As-Sulami, Islamic Mystiker
• 1319: Johann II., King of France from 1350 to 1364
• 1495: Petrus Apianus, German astronomer and geo count
• 1619: January van Riebeeck, Netherlands ship's doctor, buyer and colony manager
• 1635: Fray van Mieris the older one, to Netherlands Portrait, history and category painter
• 1646: Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect
• 1647: Matthys Naiveu, Netherlands painter.
• 1649: January Luyken, Dutch poet, Illustrator and Kupferstecher
• 1652: Clemens XII., Pope from 1730 to 1740
• 1660: Hans Sloane, English scientist and physician
• 1663: Alexander victory mouthof Pfalz Neuburg, son of the Pfälzer cure prince Philipp William
• 1671: John Law, Scottish political economist
• 1682: John Hadley, English astronomer and mathematician
• 1693: Anna Sophie of Reventlow, wife of the Danish king Friedrich IV.
• 1718: Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian Mathematikerin and Philanthropin
• 1724: Carl Philipp Frauenfeldt, German composer
• 1728: Joseph Black, Scottish physicist and chemist
• 1755: Élisabeth Vigée Lebrun, French painter
• 1758: Christian von Massenbach, Prussian Coloneland writers
• 1760: Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt, pharmacist, chemist, technologist
• 1767: Karl Julius weber, German writer
• 1773: Johann Karl von Fichard, German historian
• 1780: Johann Jakob Otto August Rühle of lily star, Prussian general
• 1786: Albrecht Adam, German battle painter
• 1797: Adolphe Thiers, French statesman and historian
• 1800: The Jakobs Heine, German physician and discoverer of the spinalen child paralysis
• 1802: François Christophe Edouard cellar man, French statesman and diplomat
• 1804: August Hergenhahn, German politician, Prime Minister of the duchy Nassau
• 1817: Rudolf of Delbrück, German politician
• 1821: Ford Madox Brown, British painter
• 1822: Karl Theodor Robert Luther, German astronomer
• 1822: Robert Luther, GermanAstronomer
• 1823: Gotthold iron stone, German mathematician
• 1834: Włodzimierz Czacki, cardinal
• 1838: Ernest Solvay, Belgian chemist and amateur researcher
• 1844: Anatole France, French writer
• 1847: Hans's William Auer, Swiss architect
• 1850: Paul von Breitenbach, Prussian Minister for public work
• 1850: Sidney Thomas, British Metallurg (Thomas process, Thomas flour)
• 1851: Ernst Josephson, Swedish painter
• 1854: Vicente Casanova y Marzol, archbishop of Granada and cardinal
• 1858: Basilio Pompilj, cardinal of the Roman-catholic church
• 1858: Johann Flierl, German Missionar
• 1867: Wilbur WRIGHTs, US-American flight pioneer and aircraft manufacturer
• 1871: John Milington Synge, Irish dramatist
• 1875: Erwin Baur, German physician, Botaniker, Genetikerand breeding researchers
• 1879: Leon Théry, French running driver
• 1882: Bohumil Markalous, Czech writer and journalist
• 1882: Rudolf young, LV politician
• 1885: Leó Weiner, Hungarian composer
• 1886: Ernst Thälmann, Hamburg worker and politician
• 1889: Charlie Chaplin, British director, actor and Komiker
• 1890: Walter Tausk und Handelsvertreter und Schriftsteller
• 1893: Federico Mompou, Catalan composer
• 1893: Friedrich Franz of balance spring, German writer
• 1894: Carl von Campe,German politician
• 1896: Ernst Udet, German flighter pilot in the First World War
• 1896: Tristan Tzara, French writer
• 1897: Alois Smolík, airplane technical designer
• 1897: Eugen Leibfried, German politician
• 1897: Glubb pasha, British officer, military strategistand Middle East expert
• 1897: Hermann Groine, German politician
• 1899: Konstantin Konstantinowitsch Waginow, Russian poet
• 1903: Paul Waner, US-amerikanischer baseball player
• 1905: Frits Philips, Netherlands Industrieller
• 1905: Paul Pierre Philippe, cardinal of the Roman-catholic church
• 1907: August Eigruber, NSDAP Gauleiter of upper Danube
• 1911: William Thomas Stearn, British Botaniker
• 1912: Jewgeni Walerianowitsch Samoilow, Russian actor
• 1914: Mark of Lasarewitsch Gallai, Soviet test pilot and engineer
• 1915: Alfred Otto Swede,German writer
• 1915: Johannes Leppich, German Jesuit and Wanderprediger
• 1915: Karl Hemfler, German lawyer and politician
• 1917: Charlotte Salomon, German painter
• 1918: Spike Milligan, Irish Komiker, writer, poet and jazz musician
• 1919: Liberace, US-American musician
• 1919: Liesel Christian, Frankfurt people actress
• 1919: Notice Cunningham, US-American dancer and Choreograf
• 1921: Peter Ustinov, Schriftsteller, actor and director
• 1921: Wolfgang Leonhard, political writer, historian and east expert
• 1922: Boby Lapointe, French singer
• 1922: Leo Tindemans, Belgian politician and head of the government
• 1923: Warren Barker, US-American composer
• 1924: Henry Mancini, US-American musician
• 1924: Walter rough, accordionist and composer from Switzerland
• 1925: Walter Pe, German football player
• 1927: Benedikt XVI., Pope (civil Joseph Alois Ratzinger)
• 1927: Claus Arndt, German politician and MdB
• 1927: Edie Adam, US-American actress
• 1927: Rolf Schult, GermanActor
• 1930: Herbie man, US-American jazz seamist
• 1932: Eberhard Panitz, German writer
• 1932: Henk Schouten, Netherlands football player
• 1932: Wolfgang Niederhöfer, German homeland researcher and mill expert
• 1933: Karl Blecha, Austrian politician
• 1933: Ludwig Haas, German actor
• 1933: Marquitos, Spanish football player
• 1934: Alfred Flury, Swiss clergyman and Chasonier
• 1934: Robert Stigwood, Australian music and film producer
• 1934: Vicar, Comiczeichner with Disney
• 1935: Bobby Vinton, US-American singer
• 1935: Sarah Kirsch, German authoress
• 1935: Siegfried Esajas, Surinamese athlete
• 1939: Dusty Springfield, British Soulsängerin
• 1939: Karl Heinz Essl senior, Austrian entrepreneur and art collecting tank
• 1940: Erika Simm, GermanPolitician and MdB
• 1940: Margrethe II., Queen of Denmark
• 1940: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, German poet and storyteller
• 1940: Waltraud Meissner, Pfälzer Mundartdichterin
• 1942: Franc Williams, team head and partner of the Williams F1 running team
• 1943: Dave Peverett, British rock musician
• 1943: Gerd Leo Kuck, German theatrical director, Dramaturg and director
• 1944: Elmar incoming inspection by, German actor
• 1945: Gojko Šušak, Croatian Secretary of Defense
• 1945: Stefan Grossman, US-American guitarist
• 1946: Pēteris Vasks, lettischer composer
• 1947: Fred Viebahn, German writer
• 1947: Gerry Rafferty, British musician
• 1947: Kareem Abdul Jabbar, US-American basketball player
• 1949: Johannes Vöcking, stellv. Chairman BARMER
• 1949: Machiel Evert Nordeloos, Netherlands Mykologe
• 1950: David count, US-American Filmschauspieler
• 1950: Karl Martin Hentschel, German politician
• 1951: Björgvin Helgi Halldórsson, well-known Icelandic Popsänger from Hafnarfjörður
• 1951: Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian writer and essayist
• 1952: Alexander Tschäppät, Swiss politician
• 1952: Peter Arnold, German bugler
• 1952: Peter Westbrook, US-amerikanischer Fechter
• 1952: Ulrich Deuschle, German politician
• 1954: Inches Barkin, US-American actress
• 1954: James Cameron, Canadian director
• 1954: Sibylle Lewitscharoff, German authoress
• 1955: Henri of Luxembourg, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
• 1955: Cool DJ Herc, musician and music producer
• 1956: Lise Marie Morerod, Swiss Skirennläuferin
• 1957: Olexander Sintschenko, Ukrainian politician anddeputy parliament president
• 1959: Grzegorz Pojmański, Polish astronomer
• 1959: Hartmut Koschyk, German politician
• 1959: Stefan Hecker, German handball-gate-wait
• 1960: Anke Gebert, German crime film authoress
• 1960: Pierre suffering bar ski, German football player and coach
• 1960: Rafael Benítez, Spanish football coach
• 1960: Rochus cock, German Comic and film script author
• 1960: Sonja suffering man, German politician
• 1962: Ian MacKaye, US-American musician and label founder
• 1962: To Matthias roar, was guitarist with thatSkirt volume Böhse Onkelz
• 1963: Jimmy Osmond, US-American musician
• 1964: Danny Quinn, Italian actor, director and film producer
• 1965: Martin Lawrence, US-American actor
• 1966: Dock Wiesinger, German actor
• 1966: Ovo Maltine, Polit Tunte,Kabarett Tunte and AIDS Aktivistin
• 1967: Jonas Thern, Swedish football player
• 1968: Andreas Hajek, German Ruderer
• 1968: Martin dahlias, former Swedish football player
• 1968: Ruediger Stenzel, German athlete and olympia participant
• 1968: Sandra Maahn, GermanTelevision host
• 1969: Marcus Jehner, German ice hockey professional
• 1969: Michael Baur, Austrian football player
• 1969: Olivia Del Rio, Brazilian Pornodarstellerin
• 1971: Natallja Swerawa, Byelorussian Tennisspielerin
• 1971: Selena Quintanilla Perez, texanische singer
• 1971: Sven Fischer, German Biathlet
• 1972: Andreas Dittmer, German Kanute
• 1972: Christof Spörk, Austrian Klarinettist and Kabarettist
• 1972: Conchita Martínez, Spanish Tennisspielerin
• 1974: Andrejs Vlascenko, ice art runner
• 1974: Zali Steggall, AustralianSkiläuferin
• 1976: Igor Tudor, Croatian football player
• 1976: Qi Shu, taiwanische actress
• 1977: Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish football player
• 1977: Thomas's racing having, Danish football player
• 1978: Lara Dutta, Indian actress
• 1979: Christijan Albers, Netherlands automobile running driver
• 1979: Gustav Götz, Austrian radio moderator
• 1979: To Lars boron-succeed, German athlete and olympia participant
• 1979: Rudi Marek Dutschke, son of the Rudi Dutschke; German politician
• 1982: Boris Diaw, French basketball player
• 1983: Daniel stroke man, Swiss orientation runner
• 1988: Peter Liebers, German ice art runner

died

• 1198: Friedrich I., Duke of Austria
• 1597: Caspar Cruciger the younger one, lutherischer theologian
• 1689: Aphra Behn, English authoress
• 1729: Antonio Ferrante Gonzaga, duke of Guastalla
• 1756: Jacques Cassini, French astronomer and geo count
• 1757: Daniel Gran, Austrian baroque painter
• 1783: Benoit Joseph Labre, French Mystiker and catholic holy
• 1788: George it Louis Leclercde Buffon, French natural scientist
• 1796: Johann Friedrich Doles D. J., German composer and attorney
• 1809: Wassili Jakowlewitsch Tschitschagow, Russian admiral and polar researcher
• 1819: Friedrich Valentin, German sculptor
• 1828: Francisco de Goya,Spanish painter and commercial artist
• 1850: Johann David Heegewaldt, secret yard advice
• 1858: Johann Baptist Cramer, pianist and composer
• 1859: Alexis de Tocqueville, French journalist and politician
• 1860: Bartolomeo Borghesi, Italian inscription researcher
• 1861: Friedrich Landolin Karl baron von Blittersdorf, civil servant of Baden
• 1870: Maria Carolina of Bourbon Sicilies, oldest daughter king Franz' I. of Neapel
• 1879: Bernadette Soubirous, French nun and catholic holy ones
• 1888: Friedrich Grillo, German Industrieller
• 1891: Elizabeth Rosenthal, foundress of the first private higher Mädchenschule in Magdeburg
• 1901: Henry Augustus Rowland, physicist
• 1905: Otto William of Struve, ethnic German astronomer in Russia
• 1914: George William Hill, US-American astronomer and mathematician
• 1921: Willibrord Benzler, bishop, monk
• 1932: Ferruccio Cattelani, Italian composer
• 1938: Steve Bloomer, English football player
• 1941: Hans Driesch, German biologist and nature philosopher
• 1947: Rudolf Höss, commander of the extermination camp Auschwitz
• 1951: Martin Loibl, German politician
• 1958: Rosalind Elsie Franklin, British Biochemikerin
• 1962: Hans Dirscherl, German politician
• 1965: William Banse, German politician and MdB
• 1968: Albert Betz, German physicist and pioneer thatWind force technology
• 1968: Edna Ferber, US-American authoress
• 1972: Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer and Literaturnobelpreisträger
• 1975: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Indian philosopher, politician and president
• 1978: Lucius D. Clay, deputy of Dwight D. Eisenhower
• 1978: Smelling pool of broadcasting corporations Lindner, US-American painter and commercial artist
• 1980: Morris Stoloff, US-American picking up vein
• 1981: Sigurd Debus, German RAF - terrorist
• 1982: Anatoli Nikolajewitsch Alexandrow, Russian composer
• 1982: Hermann of thief fields, German politician and MdB
• 1989: Ishikawa Kaoru, developed the concept of the quality circle
• 1989: Kaoru Ishikawa, Japanese chemist, developed „the Ishikawa diagram “
• 1991: Ernst Theodor acorn tree, German politician and MdB
• 1992: Werner get away, German politician
• 1994: Ralph Ellison, US-American author
• 1996: Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipowner
• 1997: Roland Topor, French author, actor and painter
• 2001: Alberto Erede, in Monaco; Italian conductor
• 2002: Harsh ore who-nods, German opera director
• 2002: Ramiro deLeon Carpio, Guatemalan politician and president
• 2003: Briefly Kluxen, German historian
• 2004: Giovanni Agnelli, Italian large-scale manufacturer
• 2005: Marla Ruzicka, US-American lady journalist
• 2006: Briefly mill head, German painter, sculptor and writer

Celebration and anniversaries

• Benedikt: Benoit Joseph Labre, French Mystiker (catholic)
• Bernadette: Bernadette Soubirous: French girl, that in the year 1858 the nut/mother of God appeared (catholic)
• Paul: Paulus: Anniversary of the transfer of the Kopfreliquie into thoseLateranskirche

see also: Historical anniversaries, time scale