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Events on April 16

• 1521 Martin Luther arrives in Worms. He is said to have explained and defended his theses once more before the Imperial Diet in Worms on both of the following days, following intercession by Frederick III, Elector of Saxony.
• 1705 Isaac Newton is knighted by Queen Anne for his services to science.
• 1867 The constituent Reichstag adopts the Constitution of the North German Confederation, which is essentially identical to the Constitution of the German Reich adopted exactly four years later.
• 1922 Under the Treaty of Rapallo, concluded between the German Reich and Russia by the foreign ministers Walther Rathenau and Georgy Vasilyevich Chicherin, both countries renounce each other's claims for reimbursement of war costs and compensation for war damage.
• 1943 The Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers at Sandoz the psychoactive effect of LSD, which he had already synthesized in 1938 while searching for a circulatory stimulant.
• 1945 The Battle for Berlin begins in the Second World War with the Red Army, reinforced by Polish troops, attacking the newly formed Army Group Vistula at the Seelow Heights.
• 1949 As part of the Berlin Airlift to West Berlin, the largest quantity of supplies in a single day—12,849 tonnes—is flown into the blockaded city by the Western Allies.
• 1972 The Apollo 16 mission launches from the Kennedy Space Center with astronauts John Watts Young, Ken Mattingly and Charles Moss Duke aboard for the penultimate lunar landing to date.
• 1982 Oliver, the first German "test-tube baby" conceived by in vitro fertilization, is born at the university hospital in Erlangen.
• 1996 In Germany, the almost complete ban on the cultivation of Cannabis sativa under the Narcotics Act is lifted. However, in order to prevent the cultivation of cannabis, the cultivation of industrial hemp still requires approval, and the hemp may not have a tetrahydrocannabinol content exceeding 0.3%.
• 1996 The Chicago Bulls with Michael Jordan win their 70th game within an NBA season and are thus the first team in league history to reach this mark.
• 2014 The South Korean ferry Sewol capsizes shortly before the island of Jindo. Of the 476 people on board, 174 survive.

Born on April 16

• 1850 Sidney Thomas, British metallurgist (Thomas process, Thomas meal)
• 1871 John Millington Synge, Irish playwright
• 1921 Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian
• 1921 Peter Ustinov, writer, actor and director
• 1940 Margrethe II., Queen of Denmark
• 1950 David Graf, American film actor
• 1960 Pierre Littbarski, German football player and coach
• 1971 Sven Fischer, German biathlete
• 1990 Senta-Sofia Delliponti, German singer, musical performer and actress
• 2002 Sadie Sink, American actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „16. April“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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