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Selected shit that happened on April 16:
1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.
1178 BC – The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus' return home from the Trojan War.
73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Great Jewish
Revolt.
1818 – The United States Senate ratifies the Rush-Bagot Treaty, establishing the border with Canada.
1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
1962 – 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".
1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
2007 – Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest spree shooting in modern American history. Seung-Hui Cho kills 32 and injures 23 before committing suicide.
Follow the dots, people! Connect the trends!
