Historical Events
The following events took place on . The list is arranged in chronological order.
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- World War II: The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin, with nearly one million troops fighting in the Battle of the Seelow Heights.
- The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
- More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine.
- Texas City disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
- Bernard Baruch coins the term “Cold War” to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
- Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia.
- In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
- Walter Cronkite takes over as the lead news anchor of the CBS Evening News, during which time he would become “the most trusted man in America”.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
- Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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- The “Doctor of Death”, Jack Kevorkian, participates in his first assisted suicide.
- The Katina P runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique and 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
- George W. Bush names April 16 as Selena Day in Texas, after she was killed two weeks earlier.
- India and Bangladesh begin a five-day border conflict, but are unable to resolve the disputes about their border.
- The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting ten new member states to the European Union.
- Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
- The trial for Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, begins in Oslo, Norway.
- The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced, it was the first time since 1977 that no book won the Fiction Prize.
- A 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran, killing at least 35 people and injuring 117 others.
- The MV Sewol ferry carrying more than 450 people capsizes near Jindo Island off South Korea, leaving 295 passengers and crew dead and 9 more missing.
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