On this day, April 16

Pins on April 16 going back to 1853: 27.

In 556: Emperor Justinian I approved and consecrated Pope Pelagius I. (Wikipedia)

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2026

Anime09/16/2026@AnimeDesk
Nitian Xie Shen: Nian Fan Premieres
Foch
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Release start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList^[1] listing.
The Chinese ONA Nitian Xie Shen: Nian Fan begins release, continuing the Nitian Xie Shen action-fantasy story into its next arc.

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2025

Food09/24/2026@AgriDesk
AWL Agri Business Completes 80% Purchase of Tops Maker GD Foods
Delhi, IndiaWilmar International
Starts 04/16/2025 11:15AM UTCCONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins89% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 89%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.5 years ago
'The Company has today, i.e. on April 16, 2025, acquired 80% of the issued and paid up equity share capital of the Target Company'; filed on NSE at 16:45 IST.^[1]
AWL Agri Business takes 80% of G.D. Foods Manufacturing, owner of the Tops sauces and pickles brand, making it a subsidiary; the other 20% is due by fiscal 2028-29.
≈$71.8M
AI09/19/2026@AIDesk
OpenAI o3 and o4-mini Released
OpenAI
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OpenAI's^[1] own model release notes date this entry April 16, 2025
OpenAI releases o3, its most powerful reasoning model, and o4-mini, a smaller model optimized for fast, cost-efficient reasoning.
AI10/13/2026@AIDesk
Granite 3.3 8B and 2B Released
1 New Orchard Road, Armonk, New York 10504, United StatesIBM
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IBM's^[1] announcement page is dated 16 April 2025 and describes the Granite 3.3 launch as 'today'; Speech Technology Magazine reported the Granite Speech 3.3 release on 22 April 2025. The Hugging Face^[2][3] repositories were created a week earlier, on 9 April, before the announcement.
IBM releases Granite 3.3 8B and 2B Instruct with fill-in-the-middle support and refined reasoning, plus Granite Speech 3.3 8B, its first official speech-to-text model, under Apache 2.0.
Automotive10/26/2026@MotorDesk
Huawei-Backed Aito Launches the M8 Family SUV From 359,800 Yuan With 20,000 First-Hour Orders
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Wuhe Boulevard, Huangjingshan Community, Bantian Sub-District, Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518100, ChinaSeres Group
Starts 04/16/2025CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins79% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 79%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 4 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better1.5 years ago
CnEVPost^[1] article dated 16 April 2025 says the launch event was 'today'; the AITO M8 Wikipedia^[2] page lists the official launch as 16 April 2025.
Aito launched the M8 six- and five-seat extended-range SUV on 16 April 2025 in six variants from 359,800 yuan, taking more than 20,000 orders in the first hour; a battery-electric version followed on 25 August 2025.
≈$50K

2021

Music10/18/2026@MusicDesk
Sebastián Yatra & Myke Towers — "Pareja del Año" (PROMUSICAE Top 100 Canciones (annual, year-end) #2 2021)
SpainSebastián Yatra & Myke Towers
Starts 04/16/2021CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins90% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 90%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 3 references, the source included, support the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better5.5 years ago
Dated to the release; ranking per PROMUSICAE^[1] Top 100 Canciones (annual, year-end) (PROMUSICAE / AGEDI).
Sebastián Yatra & Myke Towers achieved the #2 music ranking of 2021 on Spain's PROMUSICAE Top 100 Canciones (annual, year-end). Sebastián Yatra and Myke Towers's Pareja del Año was second on PROMUSICAE's 2021 annual songs chart, behind Todo de Ti.
Music10/18/2026@MusicDesk
Ladipoe & Buju — "Feeling" (TurnTable Official Nigeria Top 100 #2 2021)
NigeriaLadipoe & Buju
Starts 04/16/2021CONFIRMEDDate confidence: CONFIRMEDStated as firmHow firmly the source words the date: confirmed, scheduled, estimated, delayed or unverified.Show all CONFIRMED pins95% CONFIDENCEOverall confidence: 95%How well the pin's source and references back up its dates.Weighted average of how firmly 1 reference, the source included, supports the pin's start and end times; a reference counts half as much for every 180 days older than the newestShow all pins at 75% confidence or better5.5 years ago
Dated to the release; ranking per TurnTable Official Nigeria Top 100 (TurnTable Charts).^[1]
Ladipoe & Buju achieved the #2 music ranking of 2021 on Nigeria's TurnTable Official Nigeria Top 100. Ladipoe and Buju's Feeling is second on TurnTable's End of the Year Top 50 of 2021 for Nigeria, behind Omah Lay's Godly. It had earlier held number one on the weekly chart for four consecutive weeks.