16th April 1920
Lenin and 32 communists rode in a train through Germany, took a ferry to Sweden, another train to Finland finally arriving in Petrograd, Russia, on April 16, 1917. Lenin gave a speech to supporters calling for a continent-wide European revolution. Stalin was not present.
The death sentence of Robert Stroud, who would become famous as the "Birdman of Alcatraz", was commuted to life imprisonment by U.S. President Wilson.
Ship Losses:
Svelviksand I (Norway) The auxiliary sailing ship was wrecked on the Knock Sand, North Sea. Her crew sought refuge on the Knock Lightship ( United Kingdom).