1912
Apr 16, Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel

1961
Apr 16, Selena, Latina singer (Grammy-1994), was born in Texas.

1998
Apr 16, Paula Jones announced she would ask an appeals court to reinstate her sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton after it was thrown out by a federal judge.

2001
Apr 16, Lee Bong-ju of South Korea won the 105th Boston Marathon in 2:09:43. Catherine Ndereba of Kenya won the women's race in 2:23:53 for the second consecutive year.

2005
Apr 16, Authorities in Hillsborough County, Fla., found the body of missing 13-year-old Sarah Michelle Lunde. A suspect, David Lee Onstott, was later charged with her murder.

2009
Apr 16, In northern Nigeria a Canadian woman was seized in the city of Kaduna where she had been attending an international conference. Julie Mulligan (45) was freed unharmed in the northern city of Kaduna on April 29.

2011
Apr 16, Leavy Nin Batista (33), the ex-wife of a reputed Caribbean drug kingpin, was returned to the Dominican Republic to face accusations she laundered money for her former husband's alleged trafficking network. Jose Figueroa Agosto, the so-called "Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean," was captured last year in Puerto Rico. On May 9 Batista acknowledged her guilt in a plea deal with prosecutors

2011
Apr 16, Thousands of Yemenis demonstrated against the president after he criticized the participation of women in anti-government protests.

2013
Apr 16, In Texas Kim Lene Williams, the wife of a former judge, was arrested. She confessed to being involved in the shooting deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, his wife, Cynthia, and one of his prosecutors, Mark Hasse.