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1904 - 122 years ago
1April 16, 1904TERMINUS 2020 LiteratureDates20th Century: 1st HalfBirth Dates

TERMINUS
April 16, 1904
Date of unknown significance on marker in the mysterious island graveyard. This particular marker contains three dates. December 22, 1893 - assumed to be date of birth. April 16, 1904 - assumed to be date of death. August 14, 1949 - date of unknown significance. Alex, also known as Alexander Kotorovich's clone, claims that the graves are his - his other clone brothers.


1922 - 104 years ago
2April 16, 1922 INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY 2023 FilmDates20th Century: 1st HalfEvents

INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
April 16, 1922
Mysterious date listed in Helena Shaw's father's notebooks.



1931 - 95 years ago
3April 16, 1931 THE NIGHT STRANGLER 1973 FilmDates20th Century: 1st HalfEvents

THE NIGHT STRANGLER
April 16, 1931
Date of the last of 6 strangulations in the 1931 series of murders that Kolchak discovers while researching the newspaper's archives, continuing a trend every 21 years.



1952 - 74 years ago
4April 16, 1952 THE PRETENDER 1996 TV SeriesDates20th Century: 50sBirth Dates

THE PRETENDER
April 16, 1952
Mr. White born - new Centre employee reporting to Mr. Lyle in charge of Project Silence.



1959 - 67 years ago
5April 16, 1959 BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II 1989 FilmDates20th Century: 50sHeadlines

BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II
April 16, 1959
Date of Hill Valley Telegraph newspaper headline: Luckiest Man On Earth.



1961 - 65 years ago
6April 16, 1961 11.22.63 2016 TV SeriesDates20th Century: 60sEvents

11.22.63
April 16, 1961
Date of one of the sporting events listed in the notebook that Al gives Jake for him to earn money by gambling in the past.



1964 - 62 years ago
7April 16, 1964 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 1996 FilmDates20th Century: 60sBirth Dates

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE
April 16, 1964
Date of Birth on IMF Agent Data file for Claire Phelps.



1965 - 61 years ago
8April 16, 1965FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON 1958 LiteratureDates20th Century: 60sEvents

FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON
April 16, 1965
Charlie writes in his journal about learning to write better.


9April 16, 1965 PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV SeriesDates20th Century: 60sBirth Dates

PERSON OF INTEREST
April 16, 1965
Date of Birth for Howard Carpenter.



1968 - 58 years ago
10April 16, 1968 APOCALYPSE NOW 1979 FilmDates20th Century: 60sHeadlines

APOCALYPSE NOW
April 16, 1968
Date of article headline: Green Beret Colonel Under Fire in Kurtz dossier, about a negotiating team.



11April 16, 1968 FREQUENCY 2000 FilmDates20th Century: 60sEvents

FREQUENCY
April 16, 1968
Mary Finelli reported missing - the first victim of the Nightingale murderer.



1973 - 53 years ago
12April 16, 1973 THE NIGHT STRANGLER 1973 FilmDates20th Century: 70sEvents

THE NIGHT STRANGLER
April 16, 1973
The second of four nights that Kolchak convinces belly dancer Louise Harper to act as bait in an attempt to attract the Night Strangler. No luck.



1975 - 51 years ago
13April 16, 1975 PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV SeriesDates20th Century: 70sBirth Dates

PERSON OF INTEREST
April 16, 1975
Date of Birth for Samaritan activated civilian asset Jimmy Jager.



1976 - 50 years ago
14April 16, 1976 THE PRETENDER 1996 TV SeriesDates20th Century: 70sBirth Dates

THE PRETENDER
April 16, 1976
Michelle Lucca born - clinical psychologist that worked very closely with Sydney on the Pretender Project, and the mother of his son Nicholas.



1981 - 45 years ago
15April 16, 1981 THE AMATEUR 2025 FilmDates20th Century: 80sBirth Dates

THE AMATEUR
April 16, 1981
Date of Birth on Heller's United Kingdom passport under the name Laurent Joseph Alexander.

 

1985 - 41 years ago
16April 16, 1985 MACGYVER 1985 TV SeriesDates20th Century: 80sIssued Dates

MACGYVER
April 16, 1985
Issued Date on Penny Parker's passport.



1987 - 39 years ago
17April 16, 1987 DEXTER 2006 TV SeriesDates20th Century: 80sBirth Dates

DEXTER
April 16, 1987
Date of Birth on Freebo's girlfriend Teegan Campbell's Florida Driver License.



18April 16, 1987 FOR ALL MANKIND 2019 TV SeriesDates20th Century: 80sHeadlines

FOR ALL MANKIND
April 16, 1987
Date of headline: Helios Wins NASA Mining Contract.



1991 - 35 years ago
19April 16, 1991 PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV SeriesDates20th Century: 90sHeadlines

PERSON OF INTEREST
April 16, 1991
Date of Corpus Christi Chronicle newspaper headline: 14-Year-Old Girl Gone Missing.



1993 - 33 years ago
20April 16, 1993 PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV SeriesDates20th Century: 90sBirth Dates

PERSON OF INTEREST
April 16, 1993
Date of Birth on machine number and Anderson Rake Consulting Employee Alex Duncan's Equian Union Credit Report.



1994 - 32 years ago
21April 16, 1994 CHUNGKING EXPRESS 1994 FilmDates20th Century: 90sExpiration Dates

CHUNGKING EXPRESS
April 16, 1994
When Qiwu's girlfriend May breaks up with him on April Fool's Day, he takes it as a joke. Deciding to humor her for a month, every day he buys a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1, because May loves pineapple, and because May 1 is his birthday. If May doesn't come back by the time he's bought 30 cans, their love will expire.



22April 16, 1994 CLERKS 1994 FilmDates20th Century: 90sEvents

CLERKS
April 16, 1994
Dante goes to work at Quick Stop on his day off.



23April 16, 1994 MALLRATS 1994 FilmDates20th Century: 90sDeath Dates

MALLRATS
April 16, 1994
According to her calendar, Tricia goes down on a guy and has sex with him outside. (15 year-old Tricia sleeps with a bunch of guys as research for her book about male sexual prowess in the 90s. She codes her research on a calendar: the smiley face is when she goes down on the guy. The smiley face with lashes is for when the goes down on her. The circle is for when they have sex. The circle with an "X" in it is for when she has an orgasm. The little house is for when they do it inside and the grass is for outside.) Since it has been confirmed in the Clerks: The Lost Scene comic that Julie Dwyer dies on April 15, and Mallrats takes place the day before Clerks, that puts this date in the future. So, either Tricia plans ahead or this is a simple continuity error.



24April 16, 1994 PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV SeriesDates20th Century: 90sEvents

PERSON OF INTEREST
April 16, 1994
Date of Doug Hammill's Westchester Police Department Voluntary Witness Statement regarding the death of machine number and criminal prosecutor Matthew Reed's girlfriend Claire Klein.



25April 16, 1994 PROJECT: ALF 1996 FilmDates20th Century: 90sEvents

PROJECT: ALF
April 16, 1994
Date of Edmonds Air Force Base security video of Dr. Warner unintentionally electrocuting himself while getting ready to subject ALF to electric shock testing.



1996 - 30 years ago
26April 16, 1996 THE SIMPSONS 1989 Animated SeriesDates20th Century: 90sEvents

THE SIMPSONS
April 16, 1996
Principal Skinner spends Spring Break in Hong Kong.



1997 - 29 years ago
27April 16, 1997 EARLY EDITION 1996 TV SeriesDates20th Century: 90sHeadlines

EARLY EDITION
April 16, 1997
Gary's father goes out on a newspaper mission without him, resulting in a video store blowing up. Chicago Sun-Times headlines: Child in critical condition after fall, Poultry truck accident snarls traffic, Elderly man robbed at cash machine, Child disappears from market, High-speed accident injures six people.

 
 


1998 - 28 years ago
28April 16, 1998MEMOIRS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 1733 LiteratureDates20th Century: 90sEvents

MEMOIRS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
April 16, 1998
Date of letter to the Lord High Treasurer from Philip Dormer Stanhope, the Earl of Chesterfield. "My Lord, In my former Letters I believe I gave you a sufficient surfeit of my political observations on this great Empire, and its present Condition, Laws, and Customs, and I shall now furnish another kind of entertainment for you, if any thing I can send your Lordship can be justly called so. I shall chiefly confine myself at present to give you some imperfect accounts of my Telescope's performances, and of several conversations I have had on it, with the Grand Seignior in person, in those secret recesses of his retirement, the Apartments of the Seraglio, and the lovely Gardens with which it is almost surrounded, to the very Banks of the Sea."


1999 - 27 years ago
29April 16, 1999 DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS 2024 FilmDates20th Century: 90sEvents

DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS
April 16, 1999
Date of the photo of Jamie that Sukie gives the goons.



2000 - 26 years ago
30April 16, 2000 DEXTER 2006 TV SeriesDates21st Century: 00sEvents

DEXTER
April 16, 2000
Date of Juvenile Detention Center Behavior Report on Joseph Jensen for setting roommate's bunk on fire - the pyromaniac serial killer known as the Phantom.



31April 16, 2000 THE PRETENDER 1996 TV SeriesDates21st Century: 00sEvents

THE PRETENDER
April 16, 2000
Date of surveillance video from the Pratt Institute, where Dr. Raines has apparently been visiting his wife Edna, who supposedly committed suicide over twenty years ago.



2002 - 24 years ago
32April 16, 2002 DEXTER 2006 TV SeriesDates21st Century: 00sEvents

DEXTER
April 16, 2002
Day after drug dealer and Bay Harbor Butcher victim Anthony Rodrigo's trial. Deb mentions that this is the last day he was seen alive. According to the note taken by nut job Lenny Asher, the guy that lived next door to him: "Rodrigo gets into car parked in wrong space. Must be drunk because someone is carrying him."



2003 - 23 years ago
33April 16, 2003 TIME CUT 2024 FilmDates21st Century: 00sDeath Dates

TIME CUT
April 16, 2003
Original timeline. Day 1 of serial killer the Sweetly Slasher's three-day killing spree in Sweetly, Minnesota that leaves 4 students dead.



34April 16, 2003 TIME CUT 2024 FilmDates21st Century: 00sDeath Dates

TIME CUT
April 16, 2003
Revised timeline. Lucy travels back in time from 2024, attempting to prevent the death of two of serial killer the Sweetly Slasher's victims, unintentionally adding a third.



2004 - 22 years ago
35April 16, 2004 LOST 2004 TV SeriesDates21st Century: 00sEvents

LOST
April 16, 2004
Issue Date on Mr. Eko's forged passport under the name Ulu Oduduwa.



2007 - 19 years ago
36April 16, 2007 ANDY BARKER P.I. 2007 TV SeriesDates21st Century: 00sEvents

ANDY BARKER P.I.
April 16, 2007
Andy finishes his father-in-law George's tax return, with 29 hours until the deadline. He plans to proof read it one last time in the morning before filing electronically. Unfortunately, he gets mixed up in one of Lew's cases, and his laptop is stolen before he can file it.



2008 - 18 years ago
37April 16, 2008 THE OFFICE 2005 TV SeriesDates21st Century: 00sEvents

THE OFFICE
April 16, 2008
Ryan is arrested for Fraud.



2012 - 14 years ago
38April 16, 2012 PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV SeriesDates21st Century: 10sEvents

PERSON OF INTEREST
April 16, 2012
Date of information for Estonian mobster Irina Kapp that Detective Carter reviews.



39April 16, 2012 PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV SeriesDates21st Century: 10sEvents

PERSON OF INTEREST
April 16, 2012
Date of transactions on Owen Reynolds' One State Bank account statement.



2013 - 13 years ago
40April 16, 2013 PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV SeriesDates21st Century: 10sEvents

PERSON OF INTEREST
April 16, 2013
Date of attack on a substation by Vigilance.



2014 - 12 years ago
41April 16, 2014 JUPITER ASCENDING 2015 FilmDates21st Century: 10sEvents

JUPITER ASCENDING
April 16, 2014
Jupiter's employer and friend Katherine Dunlevy donates her eggs at the Volo Inc. Womens Health Fertility Center.

 

42April 16, 2014 PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV SeriesDates21st Century: 10sEvents

PERSON OF INTEREST
April 16, 2014
Date of Operative Robert Hersh's Final Autopsy Report handed to Control.



2016 - 10 years ago
43April 16, 2016 2:22 2017 FilmDates21st Century: 10sEvents

2:22
April 16, 2016
While working out in his loft, Dylan finds a bundle of old letters belonging to a previous resident named Jake Redmond. He later visits the Keifer Gallery, where there's an exhibit displaying photographs of the murder he has been dreaming about.

 

2017 - 9 years ago
44April 16, 2017 BOB'S BURGERS 2011 Animated SeriesDates21st Century: 10sEvents

BOB'S BURGERS
April 16, 2017
Easter. Bob and Linda wake up hungover from drinking the homemade bottle of Jellybean Schnapps she bought from a guy in the parking lot of Food World, unable to remember where they hid their Easter eggs for their annual Easter egg hunt (Ye olde annual Belcher egg hunt).



2018 - 8 years ago
45April 16, 2018 COUNTERPART 2017 TV SeriesDates21st Century: 10sEvents

COUNTERPART
April 16, 2018
Howard Silk meets another version of himself from a divergent parallel universe.



2019 - 7 years ago
46April 16, 2019 BOB'S BURGERS 2011 Animated SeriesDates21st Century: 10sEvents

BOB'S BURGERS
April 16, 2019
Tina steals Jimmy Jr.'s gym socks, labels them with the date and places them in her drawer, which Louise later finds.



47April 16, 2019RECURSION 2019 LiteratureDates21st Century: 10sEvents

RECURSION
April 16, 2019
In one timeline, it's Day 160 of Helena being held captive by DARPA. Dead memories of multiple disasters surface, including a tunnel accident, a bridge explosion and a train station bombing. The Department of Undoing learns that the chair was leaked to private companies as well as governments almost a year earlier, and now others are using it to change the past. In several subsequent timelines, the world ends in nuclear war, despite Barry and Helen's attempts to rewrite history, trying and failing to find a way to prevent dead memories from harming the brain. Eventually, Barry learns from Marcus Slade how to stop it - going back into a dead memory from the original timeline.


2023 - 3 years ago
48April 16, 2023 I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE 2019 TV SeriesDates21st Century: 20sEvents

I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE
April 16, 2023
Date of note on Marcus' calendar, the office worker playing the Feed Eggs video game at his desk: "8A General Business Meeting".



2024 - 2 years ago
49April 16, 2024 ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 2026 FilmDates21st Century: 20sEvents

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
April 16, 2024
Date of note written on the Sergio St. Carlos Ninja Academy calendar, visible when Steven sends troops to Baktan Cross to find Charlene/Willa: 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm.

 

2025 - 1 years ago
50April 16, 2025 WAKE UP DEAD MAN 2025 FilmDates21st Century: 20sEvents

WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY
April 16, 2025
Spy Wednesday. Wednesday of Holy Week at the Our Lady of Perpetual Fortitude church in Chimney Rock, New York - the week of special services leading up to Easter.



2027 - 1 years from now
51April 16, 2027 CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD 2025 FilmDates21st Century: 20sEvents

CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD
April 16, 2027
Sam Wilson, Joaquin Torres and Isaiah Bradley attend the Celestial Island World Summit at the White House, where a mind controlled Isaiah attempts to assassinate President Ross.

 
 

2151 - 125 years from now
52April 16, 2151 STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE 2001 TV SeriesDates22nd Century and beyondJournal Entries

STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE
April 16, 2151
Date of Captain Archer's log entry: Enterprise starlog, Captain Jonathan Archer. April 16th, 2151. We've been tracking the Suliban ship for ten hours, thanks to our science officer, who came up with a way to tweak the sensors...



2253 - 227 years from now
53April 16, 2253 BABYLON 5 1993 TV SeriesDates22nd Century and beyondEvents

BABYLON 5
April 16, 2253
Free Mars freedom fighter Abel Horn escapes from the Lunis Planum Prison Base.



3002 - 976 years from now
54April 16, 3002 FUTURAMA 1999 Animated SeriesDates22nd Century and beyondEvents

FUTURAMA
April 16, 3002
Date visible when the Planet Express ship is thrown back in time and the calendar on the wall rolls back, until the crew ultimately crashes in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.



Year Unknown
55April 16 A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS 2022 FilmDatesNo YearEvents

A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS
April 16
Ralphie's father's - the Old Man - birthday. Actually actor Peter Billingsly's birthday.



56April 16THE PLAGUE 1947 LiteratureDatesNo YearEvents

THE PLAGUE
April 16
Dr. Bernard Rieux steps on a dead rat on his way to surgery. Later that evening, when he returns to his apartment, he watches another rat die.


57April 16 TRANSCENDENCE 2014 FilmDatesNo YearEvents

TRANSCENDENCE
April 16
Will and Evelyn meet for the first time.




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