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Selena Quintanilla was born on April 16, 1971, at Freeport Community Hospital in Freeport, Texas. [10] [11] She was the youngest child of Marcella Ofelia Quintanilla (née Samora), who was Mexican-American with some Cherokee ancestry, [12] and Abraham Quintanilla Jr., a Mexican American former musician. [13]
Charlie Chaplin. Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is considered one of the film industry's most important figures.
2016 (Saturday) 2015 (Thursday) April 16 is the 106th day of the year (107th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 259 days remain until the end of the year.
Early life: 1927–1951. Main article: Early life of Pope Benedict XVI. The birth house of Joseph Alois Ratzinger in Marktl, Bavaria. Joseph Alois Ratzinger was born on 16 April, Holy Saturday, 1927 at Schulstraße 11 at 8:30 in the morning in his parents' home in Marktl, Bavaria, Germany. He was baptised the same day.
Ferdinand Magellan[a] (c. 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese [3] explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies, which achieved the first circumnavigation of Earth in history. During this expedition, he also discovered the Strait of Magellan, allowing his fleet to pass from the Atlantic ...
Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln (/ ˈlɪŋkən / LINK-ən; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865.
1853. Henri-Victor Regnault. Sèvres, France. [ 24 ] Valley of the Shadow of Death. 23 April 1855. Roger Fenton. Sevastopol, Crimea. Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the ...
April 16. MV Sewol. 1520 – A revolt of citizens of Toledo in Castile, opposed to the rule of the foreign-born Charles I, began when the royal government attempted to unseat radical city councilors. 1862 – Slavery in Washington, D.C., ended when the District of Columbia Compensated Emancipation Act became law.