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Year | Name |
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2020 | The first impeachment of Donald Trump formally moves into its trial phase in the United States Senate. |
2020 | The United States Senate ratifies the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement as a replacement for NAFTA. |
2018 | Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve. |
2016 | Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant. |
2011 | Syrian civil war: The Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) is established with the stated goal of re-organizing Syria along the lines of democratic confederalism.[28] |
2006 | Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state. |
2003 | The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry. |
2002 | War in Afghanistan: The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban. |
2001 | Second Congo War: Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards in Kinshasa. |
2001 | US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War. |
1995 | An avalanche hits the Icelandic village Súðavík, destroying 25 homes and burying 26 people, 14 of whom died. |
1992 | El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives. |
1991 | Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War. |
1983 | Turkish Airlines Flight 158 crashes at Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Ankara, Turkey, killing 47 and injuring 20. |
1979 | Iranian Revolution: The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt. |
1969 | Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before. |
1969 | Space Race: Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk. |
1959 | Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Astor Piazzolla International Airport in Mar del Plata, Argentina, killing 51. |
1945 | World War II: Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker. |
1942 | The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins deporting Jews from the Łódź Ghetto to Chełmno extermination camp. |
1942 | Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard. |
1921 | The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa. |
1920 | The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France. |
1919 | Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later. |
1909 | Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. |
1900 | The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands. |
1883 | The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is enacted by Congress. |
1878 | Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule. |
1862 | Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape. |
1847 | Westward expansion of the United States: John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. |
1809 | Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña. |
1786 | Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson. |
1780 | American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent. |
1757 | Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela. |
1707 | The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain. |
1605 | The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain. |
1572 | Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried and found guilty of treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. |
1556 | Philip II becomes King of Spain. |
1547 | Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia, replacing the 264-year-old Grand Duchy of Moscow with the Tsardom of Russia. |
1537 | Bigod's Rebellion, an armed insurrection attempting to resist the English Reformation, begins. |
1362 | Saint Marcellus's flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea. |
1120 | Crusades: The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. |
929 | Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III establishes the Caliphate of Córdoba. |
550 | Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison. |
378 | General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán. |
27 | Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire. |
Here is a random list who born on January 16. For full list please click on the link above.
Year | Name |
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1928 | William Kennedy, American novelist and journalist |
1958 | Lena Ek, Swedish lawyer and politician, ninth Swedish Minister for the Environment |
1953 | Robert Jay Mathews, American militant, founded The Order (d. 1984) |
1900 | Edith Frank, German-Dutch mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945) |
1986 | Johannes Rahn, German footballer |
1895 | T. M. Sabaratnam, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (d. 1966) |
1909 | Clement Greenberg, American art critic (d. 1994) |
1908 | Ethel Merman, American actress and singer (d. 1984) |
1931 | Robert L. Park, American physicist and academic (d. 2020) |
1937 | Francis George, American cardinal (d. 2015) |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on January 16. For full list please click on the link above.
Date | Name |
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1554 | Christiern Pedersen, Danish publisher and scholar (b. 1480) |
1834 | Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician and academic (b. 1769) |
1898 | Charles Pelham Villiers, English lawyer and politician (b. 1802) |
1886 | Amilcare Ponchielli, Italian composer and academic (b. 1834) |
2016 | Joannis Avramidis, Greek sculptor (b. 1922) |
1711 | Joseph Vaz, Indian-Sri Lankan priest and saint (b. 1651) |
1983 | Virginia Mauret, American musician and dancer |
2009 | Joe Erskine, American boxer and runner (b. 1930) |
2004 | Kalevi Sorsa, Finnish politician 34th Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930) |
1988 | Andrija Artuković, Croatian politician, war criminal, and Porajmos perpetrator, first Minister of Interior of the Independent State of Croatia (b. 1899) |