On this day: Dutch cabinet steps down in 2002 over failure to stop Srebrenica massacre

Following are some of the major events to have occurred on April 16: 1912 – Harriet Quimby, the first American woman to gain a pilot’s licence, became the first female to fly a plane across the Channel from England to France. 1941 – In World War Two, German troops entered Sarajevo in Yugoslavia and destroyed […]

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