Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 16
April 16: Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel (2007), Patriots' Day in Massachusetts and Maine (2007)
- 1746 - The Battle of Culloden, the final battle of the Jacobite Rising, was fought in Culloden, Scotland.
- 1912 - Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
- 1917 - Vladimir Lenin (pictured) returned to Petrograd from Switzerland, and joined the Bolshevik movement in Russia.
- 1943 - Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann discovered the psychedelic effects of LSD.
- 1947 - Texas City Disaster: Thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate in the port of Texas City, Texas, USA exploded, killing 581 people and triggering the first ever class action lawsuit against the United States government.