About January 16
January 16, 2024 is the 16th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Capricorn is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 25 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 16
- 27 BC –Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
- 1362 –A storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand.
- 1556 –Philip II becomes King of Spain.
- 1572 –Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
- 1581 –The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
- 1761 –The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
- 1847 –John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
- 1878 –Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) – Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from 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.
- 1909 –Ernest Shackleton’s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
- 1938 –The Benny Goodman Orchestra performed the first jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.
- 1939 –The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
- 1956 –President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
- 1968 –The Youth International Party 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 –Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
- 1986 –First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
- 1992 –El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City ending the 12-year Salvadoran civil war that claimed at least 75,000.
- 2001 –Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
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