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1904 - 120 years ago | |||||
1 | April 16, 1904 | TERMINUS 2020 Literature | Dates | 20th Century: 1st Half | Birth Dates |
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 - 102 years ago | |||||
2 | April 16, 1922 | INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY 2023 Film | Dates | 20th Century: 1st Half | Events |
April 16, 1922 Mysterious date listed in Helena Shaw's father's notebooks. | |||||
1952 - 72 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 1952 | THE PRETENDER 1996 TV Series | Dates | 20th Century: 50s | Birth Dates |
April 16, 1952 Mr. White born - new Centre employee reporting to Mr. Lyle in charge of Project Silence. | |||||
1959 - 65 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 1959 | BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II 1989 Film | Dates | 20th Century: 50s | Headlines |
April 16, 1959 Date of Hill Valley Telegraph newspaper headline: Luckiest Man On Earth. | |||||
1964 - 60 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 1964 | MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 1996 Film | Dates | 20th Century: 60s | Birth Dates |
April 16, 1964 Date of Birth on IMF Agent Data file for Claire Phelps. | |||||
1965 - 59 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 1965 | FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON 1958 Literature | Dates | 20th Century: 60s | Events |
April 16, 1965 Charlie writes in his journal about learning to write better. | |||||
4 | April 16, 1965 | PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV Series | Dates | 20th Century: 60s | Birth Dates |
April 16, 1965 Date of Birth for Howard Carpenter. | |||||
1968 - 56 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 1968 | APOCALYPSE NOW 1979 Film | Dates | 20th Century: 60s | Headlines |
April 16, 1968 Date of article headline: Green Beret Colonel Under Fire in Kurtz dossier, about a negotiating team. | |||||
3 | April 16, 1968 | FREQUENCY 2000 Film | Dates | 20th Century: 60s | Events |
April 16, 1968 Mary Finelli reported missing - the first victim of the Nightingale murderer. | |||||
1975 - 49 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 1975 | PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV Series | Dates | 20th Century: 70s | Birth Dates |
April 16, 1975 Date of Birth for Samaritan activated civilian asset Jimmy Jager. | |||||
1976 - 48 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 1976 | THE PRETENDER 1996 TV Series | Dates | 20th Century: 70s | Birth Dates |
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. | |||||
1985 - 39 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 1985 | MACGYVER 1985 TV Series | Dates | 20th Century: 80s | Issued Dates |
April 16, 1985 Issued Date on Penny Parker's passport. | |||||
1987 - 37 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 1987 | DEXTER 2006 TV Series | Dates | 20th Century: 80s | Birth Dates |
April 16, 1987 Date of Birth on Freebo's girlfriend Teegan Campbell's Florida Driver License. | |||||
3 | April 16, 1987 | FOR ALL MANKIND 2019 TV Series | Dates | 20th Century: 80s | Headlines |
April 16, 1987 Date of headline: Helios Wins NASA Mining Contract. | |||||
1991 - 33 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 1991 | PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV Series | Dates | 20th Century: 90s | Headlines |
April 16, 1991 Date of Corpus Christi Chronicle newspaper headline: 14-Year-Old Girl Gone Missing. | |||||
1993 - 31 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 1993 | PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV Series | Dates | 20th Century: 90s | Birth Dates |
April 16, 1993 Date of Birth on machine number and Anderson Rake Consulting Employee Alex Duncan's Equian Union Credit Report. | |||||
1994 - 30 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 1994 | CLERKS 1994 Film | Dates | 20th Century: 90s | Events |
April 16, 1994 Dante goes to work at Quick Stop on his day off. | |||||
3 | April 16, 1994 | MALLRATS 1994 Film | Dates | 20th Century: 90s | Death Dates |
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. | |||||
3 | April 16, 1994 | PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV Series | Dates | 20th Century: 90s | Events |
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. | |||||
3 | April 16, 1994 | CHUNGKING EXPRESS 1994 Film | Dates | 20th Century: 90s | Expiration Dates |
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. | |||||
3 | April 16, 1994 | PROJECT: ALF 1996 Film | Dates | 20th Century: 90s | Events |
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 - 28 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 1996 | THE SIMPSONS 1989 Animated Series | Dates | 20th Century: 90s | Events |
April 16, 1996 Principal Skinner spends Spring Break in Hong Kong. | |||||
1998 - 26 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 1998 | MEMOIRS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 1733 Literature | Dates | 20th Century: 90s | Events |
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." | |||||
2000 - 24 years ago | |||||
4 | April 16, 2000 | THE PRETENDER 1996 TV Series | Dates | 21st Century: 00s | Events |
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. | |||||
3 | April 16, 2000 | DEXTER 2006 TV Series | Dates | 21st Century: 00s | Events |
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. | |||||
2002 - 22 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 2002 | DEXTER 2006 TV Series | Dates | 21st Century: 00s | Events |
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." | |||||
2004 - 20 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 2004 | LOST 2004 TV Series | Dates | 21st Century: 00s | Events |
April 16, 2004 Issue Date on Mr. Eko's forged passport under the name Ulu Oduduwa. | |||||
2007 - 17 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 2007 | ANDY BARKER P.I. 2007 TV Series | Dates | 21st Century: 00s | Events |
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 - 16 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 2008 | THE OFFICE 2005 TV Series | Dates | 21st Century: 00s | Events |
April 16, 2008 Ryan is arrested for Fraud. | |||||
2012 - 12 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 2012 | PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV Series | Dates | 21st Century: 10s | Events |
April 16, 2012 Date of transactions on Owen Reynolds' One State Bank account statement. | |||||
3 | April 16, 2012 | PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV Series | Dates | 21st Century: 10s | Events |
April 16, 2012 Date of information for Estonian mobster Irina Kapp that Detective Carter reviews. | |||||
2013 - 11 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 2013 | PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV Series | Dates | 21st Century: 10s | Events |
April 16, 2013 Date of attack on a substation by Vigilance. | |||||
2014 - 10 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 2014 | PERSON OF INTEREST 2011 TV Series | Dates | 21st Century: 10s | Events |
April 16, 2014 Date of Operative Robert Hersh's Final Autopsy Report handed to Control. | |||||
2017 - 7 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 2017 | BOB'S BURGERS 2011 Animated Series | Dates | 21st Century: 10s | Events |
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 - 6 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 2018 | COUNTERPART 2017 TV Series | Dates | 21st Century: 10s | Events |
April 16, 2018 Howard Silk meets another version of himself from a divergent parallel universe. | |||||
2019 - 5 years ago | |||||
3 | April 16, 2019 | RECURSION 2019 Literature | Dates | 21st Century: 10s | Events |
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 - 1 years ago | |||||
4 | April 16, 2023 | I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE 2019 TV Series | Dates | 21st Century: 20s | Events |
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". | |||||
2253 - 229 years from now | |||||
3 | April 16, 2253 | BABYLON 5 1993 TV Series | Dates | 22nd Century and beyond | Events |
April 16, 2253 Free Mars freedom fighter Abel Horn escapes from the Lunis Planum Prison Base. | |||||
Year Unknown | |||||
3 | April 16 | THE PLAGUE 1947 Literature | Dates | No Year | Events |
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. | |||||
4 | April 16 | A CHRISTMAS STORY CHRISTMAS 2022 Film | Dates | No Year | Events |
April 16 Ralphie's father's - the Old Man - birthday. Actually actor Peter Billingsly's birthday. | |||||
3 | April 16 | TRANSCENDENCE 2014 Film | Dates | No Year | Events |
April 16 Will and Evelyn meet for the first time. |