On This Day April 16th

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April 16th is the One Hundred-sixth Day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 259 days remain until the end of the year.

 

Events

1457 BC – Battle of Megido - the first battle recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma found the settlement of Salta, Argentina.

1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the British Hanoverian forces commanded by William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, in Scotland. After the battle, many highland traditions were banned, and the Highlands of Scotland were cleared of inhabitants.

1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor: Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.

1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.

1910—Boston Arena, the oldest indoor ice hockey arena still used for sport in the 21st century, opens for the first time.

1917 – Russian Revolution: Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.

1942 – King George VI awarded the George Cross to the people of Malta to appreciate their heroism.

1947 – Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.

1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama, for protesting segregation.

 

Birthdays

1569 – John Davies, English poet and lawyer (d. 1626)

1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and politician, First Lord of the Treasury (d. 1715)

1867 – Wilbur Wright, American inventor (d. 1912)

1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, and composer (d. 1977)

1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer and conductor (d. 1994)

1928 – Night Train Lane, American football player (d. 2002)

1947 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player and coach.

1982 – Gina Carano, American mixed martial artist and actress

 

Holidays And Observance

Save The Elephant Day

Elephants are the most significant existing land animals and spread across Africa and Asia. Recent studies estimate that there are now just over 400,000 elephants across the African continent. Although the situation differs from country to country, it cannot be denied that the number of giant mammals is declining continent-wide. Human activities such as poaching for ivory remain a significant reason for the decline.

Save the Elephant Day seeks to change this upsetting trend by educating people about elephants and their predicament and encouraging everyone to do their bit to help save elephants from extinction.

Organizations worldwide have worked together to tackle some significant threats elephant populations face. In 1989, the international commercial trade of ivory was banned. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) secured an agreement among its member states to ban international ivory trade.

In 2016, China, which is the world’s largest ivory market, called for the ban of all ivory sales within the country. On December 20, 2018, the U.K. Ivory Act 2018 received royal assent after being passed by the British Parliament. The act may be extended to include hippos, walruses, and narwhals in the future.

In 2012, Save the Elephant Day was established by the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation in Thailand, together with Patricia Sims, a Canadian filmmaker. The launch of this worldwide initiative in 2012 saw the release of “Return to the Forest,” a documentary film narrated by “Star Trek” actor William Shatner.

 

Others Include.

Day of the Mushroom

Emancipation Day (Washington D.C.)

Foursquare Day

National Bean Counter Day

National Eggs Benedict Day

National Healthcare Decisions Day

National Librarian Day

National Orchid Day

National Stress Awareness Day

National Wear Your Pajamas to Work Day

Save the Elephant Day

Teach Your Daughter to Volunteer Day

World Semicolon Day

World Voice Day

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