óæå ïðîøëî 16 April

1943 : Albert Hofmann discovered LSD effects


On 16 April 1943, the Swiss doctor Albert Hofmann discovered, by chance, the effects of LSD which he has accidentally swallowed.

1947 : Explosion of a freighter in Texas


April 16, 1947, a French freighter carrying fertilizer containing ammonium nitrate, exploded in a port in Texas causing explosions in factories around and killing over 600 people.

2003 : Treaty of Accession 2003


On April 16, 2003, the Treaty of Athens is signed. It provides for the enlargement of the European Union to 10 additional states: Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia.

2007 : Virginia Tech Massacre


On April 16, 2007, a student, Seung Hui Cho killed his ex-girlfriend Emily Hilscher and her neighbor before going to Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Virginia Tech, and killed 30 students before killing himself.

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Äíè ðîæäåíèÿ : 16 April

Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (1646)
Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter (1755)
Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1844)
Wilbur Wright , American aviation pioneer (1867)
Charlie Chaplin, English actor and director (1889)
Merce Cunningham, American choreographer and dancer (1919)
Peter Ustinov, English actor and writer (1921)
Henry Mancini, American composer (1924)
Joseph Ratzinger, Benedikt XVI , Pope (1927)
Francis Lax, French actor (1930)
Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark (1940)
Michel Denisot, French journalist and producer (1945)
Catherine Allégret, French actress (1946)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player (1947)
David Graf, American actor (1950)
Michel Blanc, French actor and director (1952)
Peter Garrett, Australian musician and politician (1953)
Ellen Barkin, American actress (1954)
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1955)
Pierre Littbarski, German footballer (1960)
Dave Pirner, American musician (Soul Asylum) (1964)
Martin Lawrence, American actor (1965)
Patrik Järbyn, Swedish skier (1969)
Conchita Martínez, Spanish tennis player (1972)
Lukas Haas, American actor (1976)
Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress (1976)
Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish footballer (1977)
Lara Dutta, Indian actress and supermodel (1978)
Marié Digby, American singer (1983)
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, American writer (1984)
Brendon Leonard, New Zealand All Black rugby player (1985)
Aaron Lennon, English footballer (1987)
Lily Loveless, English actress (1990)
Mirai Nagasu, American figure skater (1993)

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Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, French naturalist (1707)
Francisco Goya, Spanish painter (1828)
Marie Tussaud, Founder of Tussaud's wax Museum (1850)
Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and politician (1859)
José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist (1930)
Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss American car racer and automobile manufacturer (1946)
Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize in Literature (1972)
Lucius D. Clay, American general (1978)
David Lean, English director (1991)
Robert Urich, American actor (2002)
Philippe Castelli, French actor (2006)
Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (butterfly effect) (2008)
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