April 16: Queen Margrethe II's birthday in Denmark
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 1520 – Citizens of Toledo, Castile, who were opposed to the rule of the foreign-born Charles V, rose up in revolt when the royal government attempted to unseat radical city councilors.
- 1818 – The United States Senate ratified the Rush–Bagot Treaty, which laid the basis for a demilitarized boundary between the US and British North America.
- 1917 – Vladimir Lenin returned to Petrograd from Switzerland, and joined the Bolshevik movement in Russia.
- 1963 – Martin Luther King, Jr. (pictured) wrote his Letter from Birmingham Jail in response to an open letter written by white clergymen four days earlier.
- 2014 – The South Korean ferry MV Sewol sank 1.5 km (0.93 mi) offshore of Donggeochado, Jindo County, with 476 onboard, including 172 survivors.
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