Around 44 people, mostly children, die after a bus plunges into the Narmada River in the western Indian state of Gujarat. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7349795.stm (BBC News)
Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, Raja of Perlis dies after a reign of 55 years. He was the longest reigning monarch in the world since the death of Hirohito, Emperor of Japan.
Wednesday, April 16, 1997
Houston, Texas, socialite Doris Angleton is murdered in her River Oaks home. Roger Angleton later admits to the crime in his suicide note. Despite being found innocent of the crime by a Texas jury, he is later arrested by the United States Department of Justice on similar charges.
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, held at Wembley Stadium, is televised live to over 1 billion people and raises millions of dollars for AIDS research.
Burma-Japanese peace treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954, comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries that had not existed for a long time.
Friday, April 16, 1954
Vice President Richard Nixon announces that the United States may be “putting our own boys in Indochina regardless of Allied support.”
Albert Hofmann self administers the drug LSD for the first time in history, and records the details of his experience.
Saturday, April 16, 1938
London and Rome sign an agreement that sees Britain recognise Italian control of Ethiopia in return for an Italian pledge to withdraw all its troops from Spain at the conclusion of the civil war there.
Queen Victoria takes the title "Empress of India".
May ndash Batak massacre refers to the massacre of Bulgarians in Batak by Ottoman troops in 1876 at the beginning of the April Uprising. The number of victims ranges from 3,000 to 5,000, depending on the source.
In England, John Winthrop, later governor of the future Massachusetts Bay Colony, marries his first wife (of 4), Mary Forth, daughter of John Forth, of Great Stambridge, Essex.
Saturday, April 16, 1594
Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby is found poisoned. At the time of his death, he was, after his mother, second in line to the throne of England.
June ndash Moctezuma II, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, is declared deposed due to his captivity by conquistador Hernán Cortés. His brother Cuitláhuac rises to the throne.
Revolt of the Comuneros: Citizens of Toledo, Castile opposed to the rule of the Flemish-born Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, rise up when the royal government attempts to unseat radical city councilors.
Tuesday, April 7, 1444 (Julianian calendar)
The Truce of Tours is signed between England and France (it lasts 5 years).
Saturday, April 8, 1346 (Julianian calendar)
MayndashJune ndash An English invasion fleet assembles at Portsmouth.ref name = crecy/
August 1 ndash The Fourth Crusade elevates Alexius IV as Byzantine Emperor, after the citizens of Constantinople proclaim as emperor Isaac II Angelus (Alexius IV's father).
July 17 ndash The armies of the Fourth Crusade capture Constantinople by assau the Byzantine emperor Alexius III flees from his capital into exile.
First evidence that the Temple in London is extending loans to the king of England. The sums remained relatively small but were often used for critical operations such as the ransoming of the king’s soldiers captured by the French.
