German/Russian history
April 16, 1922: With the Treaty of Rapallo between the German Reich and Russia concluded by Foreign Ministers Walther Rathenau and Georgi Wassiljewitsch Tschitscherin, both countries forego reimbursement of war costs and settlement of the other side's war damages.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Rapallo_(1922)
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Communist Crimes
April 16, 1925: Bulgarian communists, with Soviet help, carried out a bomb attack on the Sveta Nedelya Cathedral in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, killing more than 150 people, including high-ranking politicians and military officers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nedelya_Church_assault
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Afghan Civil War - a never-ending story...?
April 16, 1992: After mediation by the UN, Mohammed Najibullah resigns as head of government of Afghanistan and hands over power to the Mujahideen in front of Kabul. However, the Afghan civil war did not end there, as the Mujahideen groups under Ahmad Shah Massoud, Gulbuddin Hekmatyār, Burhānuddin Rabbāni and Abdul Raschid Dostum subsequently fought each other.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War
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We Remember
April 16, 1994: Hutu soldiers begin carrying out the Nyarubuye massacre among the Tutsis in Rwanda.
The Nyarubuye massacre is the name which is given to the killing of an estimated 20,000 civilians on April 15, 1994 at the Nyarubuye Roman Catholic Church in Kibungo Province, 140 km (87 mi) east of the Rwandan capital Kigali. The victims were Tutsis. Men, women, and children were reported to have been indiscriminately killed, with the attackers allegedly using spears, machetes, clubs, hand grenades and automatic weapons. Local Interahamwe, acting in concert with the authorities, used bulldozers to knock down the church building. The militia used machetes and rifles to kill every person who tried to escape.
https://alchetron.com/Nyarubuye-massacre
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarubuye_massacre
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We Remember
United Nations peacekeeping - involved in terror?
April 16, 2002: Four weeks before the parliamentary elections, the Dutch government under Wim Kok resigns because of Dutchbat's shared responsibility for the Srebrenica massacre in the Bosnian War in 1995.
The massacre is considered the worst war crime in Europe since the end of the Second World War.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srebrenica_massacre
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Titusz Dugovics sacrifices himself in the Siege of Belgrade (1456)
From
Alexander originally Sándor von Wagner (April 16, 1838 – January 19, 1919) was a Hungarian painter.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Belgrade_(1456)
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German Soldiers
Captain Karl Küspert! September 14, 1919, Selb/Upper Franconia - April 16, 1945, Baltic Sea
I can't find any information about Captain Küspert's career either.
From the summer of '43, he served as a first lieutenant in the 3rd Company, Panzer Division 52.
In March '43, this was set up in Grafenwöhr as a Panther Division from the 1st Division, Panzer Regiment 15. After the battles for Belgorod, it was deployed together with Panzer Division 51 as part of the Panzer Grenadier Division "GD" during "Citadel". After the operation was aborted, the Panzer Division 52 became the I.Abt./Pz-Rgt 15 again.
In September 1944, as captain, he took over the 1st Company, Panzer Regiment 35, for the wounded commander, Captain of the Reserve and RKT W.Grohe.
Under his command, the company was able to advance to Doblen on 18.09.44 during the fighting in Latvia, destroying several T-34s, 2 assault guns, 15 anti-tank guns and other guns.
A short time later, Captain K. was also wounded, the regiment was evacuated from Courland to West Prussia in January 1945, losing all of its equipment, re-equipped with Panthers and Jagdpanthers, but disbanded in April 1945 as a result of further fighting. In April, the remaining 200 men of Panzer Regiment 35 were to be brought across the Baltic Sea to Stettin on the "Goya" along with the wounded and refugees. On April 16th at 23:52, the Russian submarine L-3 under Lt. Commander W. Konovalov fired four torpedoes at the "Goya", two of which hit and caused the ship to sink within seven minutes. Only 176 or 183 shipwrecked people could be rescued, Captain Küspert was not among them...
EKII 01.12.39, EKI 18.09.41, DKiG 31.08.43, Panzer Combat Badge, Black Wound Badge, RK 16.10.1944
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WWII History
The Battle of the Seelow Heights was a defensive battle fought by the German Wehrmacht against the Red Army on the Oder Front in the final phase of World War II.

It took place from April 16 to 19, 1945, and was the largest battle of World War II on German soil. The Bolshevik victory, inevitable due to their superiority in material resources, gave the Soviets the decisive breakthrough to the final battle for Berlin. The three Soviet fronts along the Oder and Neisse rivers had a total of approximately 2.5 million men, 6,250 tanks, 7,500 aircraft, 41,600 artillery pieces and mortars, 3,255 Katyusha rocket launchers, and 95,383 motor vehicles. The Red Army's most powerful front, the 1st Belorussian Front, consisted of eleven armies (77 rifle divisions, seven tank and three mechanized corps, eight artillery divisions, and additional artillery and rocket launcher brigades). This was to deliver the main blow. Zhukov's units possessed 3,155 tanks and self-propelled guns, as well as 20,130 artillery pieces (including 7,186 mortars), and were concentrated in the western Oder bridgehead at Küstrin. They faced a newly formed German 9th Army in front of the Seelow Heights. On April 16, 1945, between 3 and 4 a.m., the attack from the Küstrin bridgehead began with massive artillery fire. 40,000 guns were reportedly deployed. 2.5 million Soviet soldiers were deployed over a 30 km stretch along the Oder and Neisse rivers, grouped into three army groups. The central line, under the command of Marshal Zhukov, was to cross the Oderbruch from Küstrin with around one million soldiers, capture Seelow, and march directly to Berlin. The plan was simple: the heaviest barrage of the entire war would turn the German defenses into mud. The remaining positions would then be overrun as quickly as possible. However, the Wehrmacht had preemptively cleared the forward defensive trenches, so the barrage did not cause major losses. Heinrici and Busse had anticipated the attack, withdrawn their soldiers during the night, and then deployed them in the second line on the Seelow Heights. The Wehrmacht exploited its advantage in the terrain—the only advantage the defenders had. They could shell the attackers from Seelow down on the plain; moreover, the Russians had only a few routes to advance, as the Oderbruch represented a natural obstacle. When Zhukov sent his tanks and infantry forward after the barrage, they found the first line of defense destroyed, but no Germans. Another nasty surprise followed immediately: 143 Soviet anti-aircraft searchlights were intended to turn night into day and blind the Germans. However, smoke, dust, and fog scattered the light, which tended to blind their own troops. Against the backdrop of the searchlights, these troops also presented easy targets for the Germans further west. This resulted in heavy losses among Stalin's soldiers. The first wave of attacking tanks became stuck in the main trench. Zhukov immediately sent in the tank reserve, which led to the almost complete immobility of the attack front. Tanks and infantry hindered each other, resulting in a traffic jam, and the Germans successfully harassed the melee with their artillery. The first day ended with a defensive success for the Wehrmacht.
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Soldiers
RAF fighter Ace Ian “Widge” Gleed in the cockpit of his Supermarine Spitfire Mk VB at RAF Ibsley. Gleed is credited with 18 aerial victories during the Battle of Britain and in North Africa. He was lost on April 16, 1943 during a fighter sweep over Tunisia. Gleed was likely shot down by the high-scoring Luftwaffe ace Ernst-Wilhelm Reinert flying a Messerschmitt Bf-109 fighter. Colorization by Dan Steele.
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Can't blame him for trying

Short story of menkind.
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We Remember
April 16, 2007: 32 people are killed and 29 others injured in a shooting at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Virginia. The perpetrator then kills himself.
@LieberLebenswertLebenChannel
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seung-Hui_Cho
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tech_shooting