January 16

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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).

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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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.
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.
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. The Metroliner train begins service between New York and Washington 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.
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 - 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.
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 - Adriana Iliescu gives birth at age 66 and becomes the oldest woman in the world to do so.