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Notable anniversaries in history for today: April 16
- 300th: 1724 - First Easter observed.
- 100th: 1924 - First radio-transmission of wireless, by Matthäus Passion.
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Geoffrey Johnson Smith; actor (Norman Loves Rose, Drinking Games).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Henry Mancini in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; pianist, composer, orchestra leader (Glenn Miller-Tex Beneke orchestra, worked on over 100 films, "Moon River", "Days of Wine and Roses", Peter Gunn TV show theme, The Pink Panther movie theme, over 90 albums, "Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet" album (1969)).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of John Harvey-Jones; CEO (ICI).
- 100th: 1924 - Child labor laws strengthened in Holland.
- 100th: 1924 - Jack Board, cricket wicket-keeper (England in six Tests 1898-1906), dies.
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Brian Peppiatt; joint CEO (SG Warburg Securities).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Geoffrey Owen; British editor (Financial Times).
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Robert Stigwood; producer (Saturday Night Fever, Grease).
- 70th: 1954 - NHL Stanley Cup: Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 3.
- 60th: 1964 - Nine men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery".
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Dave Pirner; rocker (Soul Asylum - "Runaway Train").
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Robert Kelker-Kelly in Wichita, Kansas, USA; (Bo - Days of our Lives).
- 50th: 1974 - 200,000 attend rock concert California Jam I in Ontario, California.
- 50th: 1974 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk.
- 40th: 1984 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Mary Oliver for American Primitive.
- 40th: 1984 - 13th Boston Women's Marathon won by Lorraine Moller of New Zealand in 2:29:28.
- 40th: 1984 - 88th Boston Marathon won by Geoff Smith of Great Britain in 2:10:34.
- 40th: 1984 - Oakland Athletics' Dave Kingman hits three homeruns including a grand slam.
- 30th: 1994 - Ralph Waldo Ellison, American writer (Invisible Man), dies at age 80 (born 1914).
- 30th: 1994 - Ron Vawter, US actor (Roy Cohn, Silence of the Lambs), dies at age 45.
- 30th: 1994 - Samuel Selvon author, dies at age 70.
- 30th: 1994 - Voters in Finland decide to join the European Union in a referendum.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Alexander (Skip) Spence at age 52 of lung cancer and alcoholism in San Francisco, California, USA; rock and roll singer/guitarist/drummer (Moby Grape, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service).
- 20th: 2004 - India defeats Pakistan in their first cricket tour in 14 years.
- 15th: 2009 - General Growth Properties, the second-largest U.S. mall owner (over 200 malls), files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the biggest real estate failure in U.S. history. The 55-year-old company, based in Chicago, listed total assets of US$29.56 billion and total debts of $27.29 billion. Company share value dropped to 60 cents from a high of US$67 in 2007.
- 15th: 2009 - US President Barack Obama confirms that CIA interrogators who used interrogation methods not considered torture by legal opinion of the previous administration on suspects will not face prosecution. The approved techniques including waterboarding (simulated drowning), week-long sleep deprivation, nudity and putting insects in with a tightly confined prisoner.
- 15th: 2009 - General election begins in India.
- 10th: 2014 - Korean ferry MV Sewol capsizes and sinks after an unmanageable cargo shift, killing 304 people, mostly high school students.
- 5th: 2019 - The Howse Peak avalanche kills three noted mountaineers: Austrians Hansjörg Auer and David Lama, and Canadian Jess Roskelley.
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