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Information about January 16


January 16 is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are


349 days remaining (350 in leap years).


Events


   * 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


     FŸhrerbunker


   * 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


   * 1963 - Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens in Los Angeles, California


   * 1964 - Hello Dolly! opens in New York City's St. James Theatre.


   * 1966 - Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center, New York City


   * 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 relocate 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 a pact 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 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.


Births


   * 1838 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and phsycologist (+ 1917)


   * 1874 - Robert W. Service, poet (+ 1958)


   * 1881 - Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, radio pioneer


   * 1898 - Margaret Booth, film editor (+ 2002)


   * 1909 - Ethel Merman, singer, actress (+ 1984)


   * 1910 - Dizzy Dean, Baseball Hall of Famer (+ 1974)


   * 1918 - Stirling Silliphant, writer, producer (+ 1996)


   * 1912 - Franz Tumler, Austrian narrator (+ 1998)


   * 1924 - Katy Jurado, actress (+ 2002)


   * 1928 - William Kennedy, author


   * 1931 - Johannes Rau, President of Germany


   * 1932 - Dian Fossey, zoologist (+ 1985)


   * 1933 - Susan Sontag, author


   * 1935 - Udo Lattek, football coach


   * 1935 - A.J. Foyt, automobile racer


   * 1944 - Jim Stafford, singer


   * 1946 - Kabir Bedi, actor


   * 1946 - Ronnie Milsap, singer


   * 1946 - Katia Ricciarelli, opera singer


   * 1947 - Dr. Laura Schlessinger, psychiatrist, radio talk show host


   * 1948 - John Carpenter, director


   * 1950 - Debbie Allen, actress, dancer, choreographer


   * 1959 - Sade, singer


   * 1969 - Roy Jones Jr., boxer


   * 1974 - Kate Moss, supermodel


   * 1979 - Aaliyah, singer (+ 2001)


Deaths


   * 1806 - William Pitt the Elder, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom


   * 1876 - Edmund H. Sears, composer


   * 1917 - George Dewey, Admiral


   * 1936 - Albert Fish, serial killer (electrocuted)


   * 1942 - Carole Lombard, actress


   * 1957 - Arturo Toscanini, conductor

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