January January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 349 days remaining (350 in leap years).
Events
- 27 BC - Octavian Caesar given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate.
- 1362 - One of the North Sea's greatest stormtides ever destroys the island of Strand with the city of Rungholt.
- 1547 - Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1556 - Philip II becomes King of Spain.
- 1572 - The Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
- 1581 - English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
- 1761 - British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
- 1777 - Vermont declares its independence from New York.
- 1780 - American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
- 1795 - French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands.
- 1809 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of Corunna.
- 1847 - John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
- 1883 - The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil service, is passed.
- 1900 - The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the Samoan islands.
- 1909 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
- 1919 - The 18th Amendment, authorizing Prohibition, goes into effect in the United States.
- 1938 - Benny Goodman plays Carnegie Hall.
- 1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
- 1956 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
- 1957 - The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool.
- 1961 - Mickey Mantle becomes the highest paid baseball player by signing a $75,000 contract.
- 1964 - The first musical version of Hello, Dolly! opens at New York City's St. James Theatre.
- 1966 - The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City.
- 1970 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
- 1970 - Curt Flood files suit, stating that major league baseball had violated the American anti-trust laws.
- 1977 - The Marx Brothers were inducted into the Motion Picture Hall of Fame.
- 1979 - The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.
- 1988 - Sports commentator Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder is fired by CBS a day after publicly stating that African Americans had been bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery.
- 1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins.
- 1992 - El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City that ends a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75,000.
- 1997 - Ennis Cosby, the only son of actor Bill Cosby, is killed by a gunman while changing a flat tire in Los Angeles, California.
- 1998 - NASA announces that John Glenn will return to space when Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off in October 1998.
- 2000 - In Sacramento, California a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the state capitol building killing the driver.
- 2002 - A student shoots 6 people at the Appalachian School of Law. Three of those shot die.
- 2002 - John Ashcroft announces that so-called "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh would be tried in the United States.
- 2002 - The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining Taliban.
- 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which will be its final one. Columbia disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry.
- 2004 - Goatse.cx is shut down by the Christmas Island Registry
Births
- 1838 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
- 1874 - Robert W. Service, poet (d. 1958)
- 1881 - Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, radio pioneer
- 1898 - Margaret Booth, film editor (d. 2002)
- 1902 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner
- 1909 - Ethel Merman, singer, actress (d. 1984)
- 1910 - Dizzy Dean, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1974)
- 1912 - Franz Tumler, Austrian narrator (d. 1998)
- 1918 - Stirling Silliphant, writer, producer (d. 1996)
- 1922 - Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer
- 1924 - Katy Jurado, actress (d. 2002)
- 1928 - William Kennedy, author
- 1931 - Johannes Rau, President of Germany
- 1932 - Dian Fossey, zoologist (d. 1985)
- 1935 - Udo Lattek, football coach
- 1935 - A.J. Foyt, automobile racer
- 1943 - Brian Ferneyhough, composer
- 1944 - Jim Stafford, singer
- 1946 - Kabir Bedi, actor
- 1946 - Ronnie Milsap, singer
- 1946 - Katia Ricciarelli, opera singer
- 1947 - Laura Schlessinger, psychiatrist, radio talk show host
- 1948 - John Carpenter, director
- 1948 - Dalvanius, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002 )
- 1948 - Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
- 1950 - Debbie Allen, actress, dancer, choreographer
- 1959 - Sade, singer
- 1969 - Roy Jones Jr., boxer
- 1974 - Mitchel Roitman, scientist, psychologist
- 1974 - Kate Moss, supermodel
- 1979 - Aaliyah, singer (d. 2001)
- 1980 - Albert Pujols, baseball player
Deaths
- 1747 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
- 1794 - Edward Gibbon, historian (b. 1737)
- 1806 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
- 1876 - Edmund H. Sears, composer
- 1917 - George Dewey, Admiral (b. 1837)
- 1936 - Albert Fish, serial killer (electrocuted) (b. 1870)
- 1942 - Carole Lombard, actress (b. 1908)
- 1957 - Arturo Toscanini, conductor (b. 1867)
- 1962 - Ivan Meštrović, sculptor (b. 1883)
- 1982 - Red Smith, sports columnist
- 1995 - Eric Mottram - poet, teacher, critic, editor (b. 1924)
- 2002 - Michael Bilandic, mayor of Chicago, IL (b. 1923)
- 2002 - Eddie Meduza
Holidays and observances
January 15 - January 17 - December 16 - February 16 -- listing of all days
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ar:16 يناير
bg:16 януари
ca:16 de gener
cs:16. leden
cy:16 Ionawr
da:16. januar
de:16. Januar
et:16. jaanuar
el:16 Ιανουαρίου
es:16 de enero
eo:16-a de januaro
eu:Urtarrilaren 16
fr:16 janvier
fy:16 jannewaris
ko:1월 16일
hr:16. siječnja
is:16. janúar
it:16 gennaio
[[he:16 בינואר]]
lt:Sausio 16
lb:16. Januar
hu:Január 16
nl:16 januari
ja:1月16日
no:16. januar
oc:16 de genièr
nds:16 Januar
pl:16 stycznia
pt:16 de Janeiro
ro:16 ianuarie
ru:16 января
sa:१६ जनवरी
sl:16. januar
fi:16. tammikuuta
sv:16 januari
tr:16 Ocak
uk:16 січня
zh:1月16日
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