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April 16: Easter in Western Christianity, Mawlid in Shi'a Islam (2006)

1746 - The Battle of Culloden, the final battle of the Jacobite Rising, was fought in Culloden, Scotland.
1853 - Indian Railways launched its first passenger train service.
1917 - Vladimir Lenin (pictured) returned to Petrograd from Switzerland, and joined the Bolshevik movement in Russia.
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.