Today is Tuesday, April 16, the 106th day of 2019. There are 259 days left in the year.
1509 — French army under Louis XII enters Alps
1705 — Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
1724 — First Easter observed
1789 — George Washington heads for first presidential inauguration
1854 — Franz Liszt's "Mazeppa" premieres
1861 — Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states
1908 — Natural Bridges National Monument established
1912 — Harriet Quimby becomes first woman pilot to cross the English Channel
1917 — Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution