April 16

Saturday 16, 2005:

BBC announces David Tennant's casting as the Tenth Doctor in the long-running science-fiction series, Doctor Who

Monday 16, 1917:

Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd (present-day Saint Petersburg) from exile in Finland.

Saturday 16, 1853:

The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.

Saturday 16, 1521:

Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the rest of the estates of the empire.

Monday 16, -1178:

A solar eclipse may mark the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War.