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January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the
Gregorian calendar . There are 349 days remaining (350 in
leap years ).
Contents
1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links
Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate .
550 - Gothic War (535–552) : The Ostrogoths , under King Totila , conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
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 Don Quixote ) by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid .
1707 - The Scottish Parliament , ratified the Act of Union , paving way for the creation of Great Britain .
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.
1878 - Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from the Ottoman rule.
1883 - The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act , establishing the United States Civil service , is passed.
1896 - Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM , Newport, Monmouthshire .
1900 - The United States Senate accepts the Anglo -German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands .
1909 - Ernest Shackleton 's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole .
1919 - Temperance movement : The United States of America ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution , authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker .
1956 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine .
1968 - Youth International Party (Yippies ) is 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 - Metroliner train starts running.
1970 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects .
1979 - The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt .
1986 - First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force .
1991 - The United States of America declares war on Iraq, beginning the Persian Gulf War (U.S.Time).
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.
2001 - Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
2001 - US President Bill Clinton awards former US President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War .
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.
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 the Chinese government to a psychiatric hospital, allegedly for political activism.
2007 - Tri-Centenary of the United Kingdom .
Births 1245 - Edmund Crouchback , son of Henry III of England (d. 1296 )
1409 - 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 )
1815 - Henry W. Halleck , American Civil War general (d. 1872 )
1821 - John C. Breckenridge , Confederate general (d. 1875 )
1834 - Robert R. Hitt , American politician (d. 1906 )
1838 - Franz Brentano , German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917 )
1853 - Andre Michelin , French industrialist (d. 1931 )
1874 - Robert W. Service , Canadian poet (d. 1958 )
1875 - Leonor Michaelis , German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947 )
1885 - Zhou Zuoren , Chinese writer (d. 1967 )
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 , American baseball player (d. 1974 )
1911 - Roger Lapébie , French cyclist (d. 1996 )
1911 - Eduardo Frei Montalva , president of Chile (d.1982 )
1918 - Nel Benschop , Dutch poetess (d. 2005 )
1918 - Stirling Silliphant , American writer (d. 1996 )
1921 - Francesco Scavullo , American fashion 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
1930 - Clarence Ray Allen , American murderer (d. 2006 )
1931 - Johannes Rau , President of Germany (d. 2006 )
1932 - Dian Fossey , American zoologist (d. 1985 )
1933 - Susan Sontag , American writer (d. 2004 )
1934 - Marilyn Horne , American mezzo-soprano
1935 - A.J. Foyt , American race car driver
1942 - René Angélil , Canadian singer (Baronets), husband and manager of Céline Dion
1942 - Barbara Lynn , American singer and guitarist
1943 - Brian Ferneyhough , British composer
1943 - Ronnie Milsap , American singer/songwriter
1944 - Jim Stafford , American singer, songwriter and guitarist
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 Prime , New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002 )
1948 - Cliff Thorburn , Canadian snooker player
1948 - Ruth Reichl , American editor-in-chief of Gourmet
1950 - Debbie Allen , American dancer/choreographer
1951 - Glenn Ordway , American radio talk show host
1952 - King Fuad II of Egypt
1953 - Robert Jay Mathews , American neo-Nazi (d. 1984 )
1955 - Steve Brown , Record producer
1956 - Martin Jol , Dutch football manager
1956 - Ivan Safronov , Russian journalist (d. 2007 )
1958 - Anatoli Boukreev , Russian climber (d. 1997 )
1959 - Sade , Nigerian-born singer
1962 - Paul Webb , British musician (Talk Talk )
1963 - James May , English television presenter
1966 - Maxine Jones , American singer (En Vogue )
1969 - Roy Jones Jr. , American boxer
1970 - Ron Villone , American baseball player
1970 - Garth Ennis , Irish comic book author
1973 - Josie Davis , American actress
1974 - Kate Moss , English model
1974 - Marlon Anderson , American baseball player
1975 - Greg Strause , American director in special effects
1976 - Viktor Maslov , Russian racing driver
1976 - Martina Moravcová , Slovak female swimmer
1977 - Jeff Foster , American basketball player
1979 - Aaliyah , American singer (d. 2001 )
1979 - Brenden Morrow , Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Jason Ward , Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Albert Pujols , Dominican-born baseball player
1980 - Michelle Wild , Hungarian model
1980 - Dan Brickley , American television personality
1981 - Nick Valensi , American guitarist (The Strokes )
1982 - Samuel Preston , British singer (The Ordinary Boys )
1983 - Emanuel Pogatetz , Austrian footballer
1988 - Nicklas Bendtner , Danish footballer
1989 - John O'Brien , Bridge Rovers goalkeeper, Relegated season 06-07
1991 - Julie Dubela , American singer
1991 - Chris Thorsvik , American mathematician, guitarist, and singer.
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 , 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 )
1809 - John Moore , British general (b. 1761 )
1815 - Emma, Lady Hamilton , English mistress of Horatio Nelson (b. 1765 )
1817 - Alexander J. Dallas , American statesman (b. 1759 )
1834 - Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette , French mathematician (b. 1769 )
1856 - Thaddeus William Harris , American naturalist (b. 1795 )
1865 - Edmond François Valentin About , French writer (b. 1828 )
1879 - Octave Crémazie , French Canadian poet (b. 1827 )
1891 - Léo Delibes , French composer (b. 1836 )
1898 - Charles Pelham Villiers , longest-serving MP in the British House of Commons (b. 1802 )
1917 - George Dewey , U.S. admiral (b. 1837 )
1919 - Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves , President of Brazil (b. 1848 )
1924 - Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald , philanthropist (b. 1859 )
1936 - Albert Fish , American serial killer (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 - Vernon Duke , American composer and songwriter (b. 1903 )
1969 - Jan Palach , Czech freedom fighter (b. 1948 )
1971 - Philippe Thys , Belgian cyclist (b. 1890 )
1972 - Ross Bagdasarian , American actor and creator of The Chipmunks (b. 1919 )
1979 - Ted Cassidy , American actor (b. 1932 )
1979 - August Heissmeyer , German SS officer (b. 1897 )
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 - Andrija Artuković , Croatian war criminal (b. 1899 )
1988 - Ballard Berkeley , English actor (b. 1904 )
1993 - Jón Páll Sigmarsson , Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960 )
1995 - Eric Mottram , English poet, teacher, critic, and editor (b. 1924 )
1997 - Ennis Cosby , son of entertainer Bill Cosby (murdered) (b. 1969 )
1998 - Dimitris Horn , Greek actor (b. 1921 )
2000 - John Rankin , musical entertainer (b. 1959 )
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 )
2003 - Richard Wainwright , English politician (b. 1918 )
2004 - Kalevi Sorsa , Prime Minister of Finland (b. 1930 )
2005 - Marjorie Williams , American journalist (b. 1958 )
2007 - Ron Carey , American actor (b. 1935 )
2007 - Benny Parsons , American NASCAR driver (b. 1941 )
Holidays and observances
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