January 16

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

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

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.
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 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)
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 - 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 - Eddie Meduza

Holidays and observances

January 15 - January 17 - December 16 - February 16 -- listing of all days