Many historical events and holidays took place on April 16, we will talk about some of them in more detail.
The following holidays are celebrated on this day:
• Orchid Day
• Day of mushrooms
• Librarian’s Day.
Memorable dates and important events of April 16
• 1705 – Queen Anne of England knighted the scientist Isaac Newton
• 1710 – Pylyp Orlyk was elected Hetman of Ukraine (in exile).
• 1863 – Plongeur, the largest submarine of the 19th century, was launched in France
• 1871 – Berlin is declared the capital of Germany, adoption of the Constitution of the German Empire.
• 1912 – American Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel by plane.
• 1943 – Albert Hofmann discovered the psychotropic properties of LSD, this made the chemist widely known.
• 1945 – the beginning of the Berlin operation during the Second World War.
• 1964 – American aviator Geraldine Mock landed in West Germany and became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.
• 1966 – the first “Coca-Cola” went on sale in Israel.
On April 16, 2015, Oles Buzyna, a Ukrainian writer, historian, journalist, and TV presenter, was killed. It was named after the Ukrainian Soviet writer Oles Honchar. You can agree or disagree with his statements, but you can’t ignore them.
On April 16, 2000, a referendum initiated by President Leonid Kuchma was held in Ukraine. Four questions were put to the vote: about the conditions for the dissolution of the parliament by the president; on restrictions on parliamentary immunity; on reducing the number of Verkhovna Rada deputies from 450 to 300; on the formation of another chamber of the parliament, in which the representatives of the regions should sit. The majority of Ukrainian citizens then supported Kuchma and answered all questions positively. As a result, out of four proposed changes to the Constitution, the parliament approved only one: the president can dissolve the Verkhovna Rada – such a rule appeared in the Ukrainian Constitution in 2004.
On April 16, 1922, a man was brought to London’s Charing Cross Hospital in the West End in an unknown condition, the roof leaking from a deep wound in his neck. When the victim regained consciousness, telling the police that no one was with him at the time of the attack, no one attacked him. They decided that he must be wrong until a witness to this event was found.
Two hours after the police inspector’s conversation with the victim, another man was brought to the same hospital with numerous stab wounds from an invisible criminal. Finally, on the same day, a third person who was attacked by an unknown killer arrived at the hospital.
All the investigations of the police led to only one thing – they found out that a number of crimes took place directly on the corner from Coventry Street. It seemed unusual that the third victim had been hit in the forearm by a blow from behind, but the man’s jacket sleeve was completely intact. This event went down in history as an attack by “invisible people in London’s West End”.
On April 16, 1889, the great actor-comedian and silent film screenwriter Charles Spencer Chaplin was born. Little hobo Charlie with a stick, in a bowler hat, baggy pants and huge boots.
