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Title changes (Selection of important championships)
1960	NWA United States Tag Team Titles (Capitol-Version): Won by Eddie Graham & Jerry Graham
1983	NWA United States Heavyweight Title (Mid-Atlantic-Version): Won by Roddy Piper
1986	Mexican National Lightweight Title: Won by Guerrero Samurai
1986	Mexican National Tag Team Titles: Won by Cien Caras & Máscara Año Dos Mil
1989	AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Title: Won by Shin'ichi Nakano
1993	Mexican National Minis Title: Won by Mascarita Sagrada
1994	ECW Television Title: Won by Pitbull #1
2000	WCW Hardcore Title: Won by Terry Funk
2000	WCW World Tag Team Titles: Won by Buff Bagwell & Shane Douglas
2000	WCW United States Heavyweight Title: Won by Scott Steiner
2000	WCW Cruiserweight Title: Won by Chris Candido
2000	WCW World Heavyweight Title: Won by Jeff Jarrett
2001	WWF Intercontinental Title: Won by Triple H
2007	WWE Intercontinental Title: Won by Santino Marella
2018	WWE United States Title: Won by Jeff Hardy
2023	GHC Junior Heavyweight Title: Won by HAYATA
2023	GHC Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Won by Shuhei Taniguchi & Takashi Sugiura
2023	IW World Title: Won by Steve Maclin
2023	GHC Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Titles: Won by Tadasuke & YO-HEY
2023	IW Knockouts World Title: Won by Deonna Purrazzo
All in all, there are 251 title changes in our championships database which happened on a April 16th.

Tournament Finals
1994	NJPW Super J Cup 1994
1999	AJPW Champion Carnival 1999
2000	WCW United States Heavyweight Title Tournament
2000	WCW Tag Team Titles Tournament
2005	NJPW Samurai! TV Openweight Tag Tournament
2005	GCW Television Title Tournament
2006	GHC Heavyweight Title #1-Contenders Tournament
2006	#1-Contender Tournament (Champion of the Strongest-K)
2009	DEEP Lightweight Title Tournament
2011	Guerra de Empresas III
2016	Smoky Mountain Cup 2016
2017	FCP Dream Tag Team Invitational 2017
2022	PPW Doug French Memorial Canine Cup

Pay-Per-Views (or similar)
1994	UWFi Shootfighting 2 (Buyrate: 0.01)
1994	NJPW Super J Cup - 1st Stage
1994	AJPW Champion Carnival 1994 - Day 22
1999	AJPW Budokan Show #76 - Champion Carnival - Day 17
2000	WCW Spring Stampede 2000 (Buyrate: 0.25)
2003	NWA-TNA PPV #40
2005	UFC 52: Couture vs. Liddell 2 (Buyrate: 280000)
2008	Hustle House Vol. 35
2023	IW Rebellion 2023
2023	AAA TripleManía XXXI - A

Free TV Shows
1963	WWWF TV-Taping @ Bridgeport
1966	Live Pittsburgh Studio Wrestling
1968	Live Pittsburgh Studio Wrestling
1989	Wrestling Challenge
1989	AJPW Champion Carnival 1989 - Day 18
1990	WWF Prime Time Wrestling
1991	AJPW Champion Carnival 1991 - Day 21
1992	NJPW Explosion Tour 1992 - Day 1
1994	WWF Superstars
1994	WCW Saturday Night
1994	SMW TV-Show #116
1995	WCW Worldwide
1995	NJPW Battle Rush 1995 - Day 3
1998	WCW Thunder #14
2000	ECW Hardcore TV #364
2001	WWF RAW is WAR #412 (Rating: 5.10)
2004	WWE SmackDown #243 (Rating: 2.90)
2005	ZERO1 on Samurai TV
2005	WWE Velocity #149 (Rating: 0.40)
2005	OVW TV Show
2005	NWA Wildside TV Show #289
2006	NOAH Spring Navigation - Day 9
2007	WWE RAW #725 (Rating: 3.70)
2009	WWE Superstars #1 (Rating: 0.90)
2009	TNAW iMPACT! #251 - Jeff Jarrett's Dilemma (Rating: 1.28)
2010	WWE SmackDown #556
2010	KOTC Bad Boys 2
2011	Road FC 2: Alive
2011	OVW TV Show #608
2011	NWA Championship Wrestling from Hollywood #31
2011	NWA Anarchy TV Show #273
2011	Bellator 41 (Rating: 0.10/132000)
2012	WWE RAW #986 (Rating: 3.08/4390000)
2014	UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Kennedy Prelims (Rating: 263000)
2014	UFC Fight Night: Bisping vs. Kennedy (Rating: 641000)
2014	TNAW Xplosion #499
2014	AAW TV Show #7
2015	WWE SmackDown #817 (Rating: 1.70/2450000)
2016	UFC on FOX: Teixeira vs. Evans
2016	ROH on SBG #239 - Road Rage
2016	Bellator 152: Italy
2017	AJPW Champion Carnival 2017 - Day 1
2018	WWE RAW #1299 (Rating: 2.47/3622000)
2019	WWE SmackDown Live #1026 - Superstar Shake-up (Rating: 2219000)
2019	SGPW @ Tokyo
2021	WWE Friday Night SmackDown #1130 (Rating: 1997000)
2021	ROH on SBG #500
2022	Korakuen Hall 60th Birthday Show ~ New Japan + All Japan 50th Anniversary Special
2022	AEW Battle of the Belts II (Rating: 527000)

The ten oldest shows in our database
1885	Show @ New York City
1886	Show @ Buffalo
1901	Show @ Wien
1902	Show @ Perth
1902	Show @ London
1902	Show @ Cleveland
1905	Show @ København
1906	Show @ Praha
1906	Show @ Praha
1906	Show @ Montréal
All in all, there are 251 shows in our events database which happened on a April 16th.

Birthdays
1881	John Niflot
1905	Mayes McLain
1908	Karl Davis
1925	André Coutoula
1934	Kitione Lave
1934	Terry Majors
1937	George Steele
1943	Frankie Laine
1959	Gran Apache
1960	Horst Brack
1960	Damien Kane
1961	Volk Han
1968	Vickie Guerrero
1969	Gran Apache #2
1969	La Migala
1974	K-ness
1976	Phil Baroni
1977	Keiko Saito
1980	Boostayre Nefarios
1980	Paul London
1980	Jon Ryan
1981	El Demente
1982	Gina Carano
1982	Joe Doering
1985	Nate Díaz
1986	Pat Audinwood
1989	Michin
1990	Alexandre Pantoja
1992	Kirsty Love
1992	Candy Cartwright
???	Estigma
???	Matze
???	Alan Wasylychyn

Deaths
1953	Carl Temple
1956	Bill Leon
1964	Olga Zepeda
1986	Buckets Goldenberg
1988	Gene Reardon
2003	Ray Mendoza
2009	Tiger Bill Mills
2014	Bolo Shiroma
2020	Howard Finkel
2022	Tony Walsh

Debuts
1994	Survival Tobita
2000	Dylan Klein
2000	Vince Lucero
2004	Dustin Thomas
2004	Riki Fukuda
2004	Toshimichi Akagi
2005	Drew Gulak
2006	Corben Strife
2006	Alison
2006	Insane
2009	Black Animal
2010	Jordan Jacobs
2010	Albert Cheng
2010	Nikita
2011	Mike Malott
2014	Takatoriki
2016	Millie McKenzie
2019	Jacky "Funky" Kamei
2019	SBK

Mask Matches
2023	Argenis lost the mask at an event against Myzteziz Jr..

Hair Matches
1980	Buddy Rose lost the hair at an event against Roddy Piper.
1999	Babe Face lost the hair at an event against Latin Lover.
2000	Rody lost the hair at an event against Cyborg.
2011	Johnny Paradise lost the hair at an event against SoCal Crazy.
2017	Free Lance lost the hair at an event against Máscara Año Dos Mil Jr..
2023	Shocko lost the hair at an event against Hell Boy.

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