Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 16

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 * 1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: Severely outnumbered French forces repulsed an Ottoman attack at the Battle of Mount Tabor in present-day Israel.
 * 1912 – American pilot Harriet Quimby (pictured) became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.
 * 1917 – World War I: Several French army corps began a massive assault against the German-occupied Chemin des Dames ridge, south of Laon, France.
 * 1919 – Polish–Soviet War: The Polish army launched the Vilna offensive to capture Vilnius (now in Lithuania) from the Red Army.
 * 1963 – In response to an open letter written by white clergymen, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote the Letter from Birmingham Jail in defence of the strategy of nonviolent resistance against racism.
 * 2001 – India and Bangladesh began a six-day conflict over their disputed border, which ended in a stalemate.
 * 2007 – In one of the deadliest shooting incidents in United States history, a gunman killed 32 people and wounded over 20 more before committing suicide at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia (memorial pictured).
 * Born/died: | Fructuosus of Braga |d|665| John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke |d|1375| Tabinshwehti |b|1516| Francisco Goya |d|1828| Harry Chauvel |b|1865| John Millington Synge |b|1871| Farran Zerbe |b|1871| Gertrude Chandler Warner |b|1890| William T. Stearn |b|1911|  Joan Bakewell |b|1933| Johnnie Lewis |b|1946| R. Carlos Nakai |b|1946| Yasunari Kawabata |d|1972| Khalil al-Wazir |d|1988| Johnny Peirson |d|2021

April 16


 * 1520 – A revolt of citizens in Toledo, Castile, opposed to the rule of the foreign-born Charles I began when the royal government attempted to unseat radical city councilors.
 * 1862 – Slavery in Washington, D.C., ended when the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act became law.
 * 1945 – Second World War: British and Canadian forces concluded the Liberation of Arnhem in the Netherlands from German occupation.
 * 1948 – The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, headquartered in Paris, was founded.
 * 2014 – The ferry MV Sewol (pictured) capsized and sank off Donggeochado, South Korea, killing 306 people, mainly students from Danwon High School.