Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 16
- 1746 - Battle of Culloden: In Scotland, the final battle of the Jacobite Rising.
- 1917 - Vladimir Lenin returned to Petrograd from exile in Finland.
- 1935 - The radio program Fibber McGee and Molly debuted.
- 1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovered the psychedelic effects of LSD.
- 1947 - Texas City Disaster: Thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate in Texas City's port exploded.