January 16

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This date in recent years January 16, 2006 January 16, 2005 January 16, 2004 January 16, 2003

January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 349 days remaining (350 in leap years).

Contents 1 Interesting Fact 2 Events 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Holidays and observances 6 External links

Interesting Fact

In the United States, this is the only day of the year on which a tornado has never been observed.

Events

• 27 BC - Octavian Caesar given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate.
• 929 - Emir Abd-ar-rahman III of Cordoba declares himself caliph, thereby establishing the Caliphate of Cordoba.
• 1362 - A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt.
• 1412 - The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy.
• 1456 - Painter Filippo Lippi elopes with Lucrezia Buti, a young nun from the convent of Saint Margherita.
• 1492 - The first grammar of a modern language, in Spanish, is presented to Queen Isabella.
• 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.
• 1605 - The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid.
• 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 La Coruña.
• 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.
• 1917 - German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance against the United States.
• 1919 - Temperance movement: The 18th Amendment, authorizing Prohibition, was passed by the Congress of the United States. It went into effect one year later, on January 16th, 1920.
• 1920 - Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. was founded on the campus of Howard University by five young women.
• 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.
• 1968 - Youth International Party (Yippies) founded.
• 1969 - Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
• 1969 - The Metroliner train begins service between New York City and Washington, DC with one round trip per day.
• 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 are inducted into the Motion Picture Hall of Fame.
• 1979 - The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.
• 1986 - First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
• 1988 - CBS fires sports commentator Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder, a day after publicly stating that African Americans had been bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery.
• 1991 - United States begins bombing Iraq.
• 1991 - US serial killer Aileen Wuornos confesses to the murders of six men.
• 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.
• 1995 - UPN begins broadcasting
• 1997 - Ennis Cosby, the only son of actor Bill Cosby, is killed by a gunman while changing a flat tire in Los Angeles, California.
• 1997 - Australian Anthony Stuart becomes the only player to take a hat-trick in his final game of one-day international cricket.
• 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.
• 2001 - Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
• 2002 - A student shoots 6 people at the Appalachian School of Law. Three of those shot die.
• 2002 - John Ashcroft announces that "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 members of the 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.
• 2005 - Singapore won its 2nd Tiger Cup at the National Stadium, Singapore by beating Indonesia 2-1 on aggregate.
• 2005 - Adriana Iliescu gives birth at age 66 and becomes the oldest woman in the world to do so.
• 2006 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
• 2006 - Liu Xinjuan is committed by China to the Beiqiao Psychiatric Hospital for political activism.

Births

• 1245 - Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (d. 1296)
• 1409 - King René I of Naples (d. 1480)
• 1477 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
• 1501 - Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)
• 1616 - François de Vendôme, duc de Beaufort, French soldier (d. 1669)
• 1626 - Lucas Achtschellinck, Flemish painter (d. 1699)
• 1634 - Dorthe Engelbrechtsdatter, Norwegian poet (d. 1716)
• 1675 - Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, French writer (d. 1755)
• 1728 - Niccola Piccinni, Italian composer (d. 1800)
• 1821 - John C. Breckenridge, U.S. Senator from Kentucky and Confederate general (d. 1875)
• 1838 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917)
• 1853 - Andre Michelin, French industrialist (d. 1931)
• 1874 - Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)
• 1886 - John Hamilton, American actor (d. 1958)
• 1888 - Osip Brik, Russian writer (d. 1945)
• 1897 - Carlos Pellicer, Mexican poet (d. 1977)
• 1898 - Margaret Booth, American film editor (d. 2002)
• 1901 - Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973)
• 1901 - Frank Zamboni, American inventor (d. 1988)
• 1902 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner (d. 1945)
• 1906 - Diana Wynyard, British actress (d. 1964.
• 1907 - Paul Nitze, American government official (d. 2004)
• 1908 - Ethel Merman, American actress, singer (d. 1984)
• 1910 - Dizzy Dean, baseball player (d. 1974)
• 1918 - Nel Benschop, Dutch poetess (d. 2005)
• 1918 - Stirling Silliphant, American writer and producer (d. 1996)
• 1921 - Francesco Scavullo, photographer (d. 2004)
• 1922 - Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer
• 1923 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
• 1924 - Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
• 1928 - William Kennedy, American author
• 1931 - Johannes Rau, President of Germany (d. 2006)
• 1932 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist (d. 1985)
• 1934 - Marilyn Horne, American mezzo-soprano
• 1935 - A.J. Foyt, American race car driver
• 1943 - Brian Ferneyhough, British composer
• 1943 - Ronnie Milsap, American singer/songwriter, musician
• 1946 - Kabir Bedi, Indian actor
• 1946 - Katia Ricciarelli, Italian soprano
• 1947 - Laura Schlessinger, American radio talk show host
• 1948 - John Carpenter, American film director
• 1948 - Dalvanius, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002)
• 1948 - Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player
• 1950 - Debbie Allen, American actress, dancer, and choreographer
• 1956 - Martin Jol, Dutch football manager
• 1958 - Anatoli Boukreev, Russian climber (d. 1997)
• 1959 - Sade, Nigerian-born singer
• 1962 - Paul Webb, British musician (Talk Talk)
• 1966 - Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue)
• 1969 - Roy Jones Jr., American boxer
• 1970 - Garth Ennis, Irish comic book author
• 1974 - Kate Moss, English model
• 1977 - Jeff Foster, American basketball player
• 1979 - Aaliyah, American singer (d. 2001)
• 1979 - Brenden Morrow, Canadian hockey player
• 1980 - Albert Pujols, baseball player
• 1980 - Michelle Wild, Hungarian model
• 1981 - Nick Valensi, American guitarist (The Strokes)

Deaths

• 1400 - John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (executed)
• 1545 - George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
• 1547 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
• 1554 - Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist
• 1585 - Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)
• 1659 - Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
• 1710 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
• 1711 - Joseph Vaz, Catholic Apostle of Ceylon (b. 1651)
• 1747 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
• 1748 - Arnold Drakenborch, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1684)
• 1750 - Ivan Trubetskoy, Russian field marshall (b. 1667)
• 1752 - Francis Blomefield, English topographer (b. 1705)
• 1794 - Edward Gibbon, English historian (b. 1737)
• 1806 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759)
• 1809 - John Moore, British general (killed in battle) (b. 1761)
• 1815 - Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (b. 1765)
• 1817 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (b. 1759)
• 1856 - Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)
• 1891 - Léo Delibes, French composer (b. 1836)
• 1917 - George Dewey, U.S. admiral (b. 1837)
• 1919 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (b. 1848)
• 1936 - Albert Fish, American serial killer (executed) (b. 1870)
• 1942 - Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
• 1957 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
• 1962 - Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (b. 1883)
• 1967 - Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (b. 1901)
• 1969 - Jan Palach, Czech Freedom Fighter (b. 1948)
• 1972 - Ross Bagdasarian, American actor and songwriter (b. 1919)
• 1979 - Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
• 1981 - Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
• 1982 - Red Smith, American sports columnist (b. 1905)
• 1986 - Herbert W. Armstrong, American evangelist, author, and publisher (b. 1892)
• 1988 - Ballard Berkeley, English actor (b. 1904)
• 1995 - Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor (b. 1924)
• 2001 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1939)
• 2002 - Michael Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
• 2002 - Eddie Meduza, Swedish composer (b. 1948)
• 2002 - Bobo Olson, American boxer (b. 1928)
• 2002 - Ron Taylor, American actor (b. 1952)
• 2004 - Kalevi Sorsa, Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930)
• 2005 - Marjorie Williams, American journalist (b. 1958)

Holidays and observances

• 2006 - Martin Luther King Day
• Teacher's day in Thailand

External links

• On this day in Canada
• NY Times: On this day
• BBC: On This Day

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