About January 16

January 16, 2025 is the 16th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 349 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

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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 13 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On January 16

  • 1120 –
    The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
  • 1412 –
    The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
  • 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.
  • 1761 –
    The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
  • 1780 –
    American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
  • 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.
  • 1896 –
    Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
  • 1920 –
    The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris.
  • 1924 –
    Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time.
  • 1938 –
    The Benny Goodman Orchestra performed the first jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2001 –
    Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
  • 2001 –
    US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War.
  • 2003 –
    The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
  • 2006 –
    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia’s new president. She becomes Africa’s first female elected head of state.

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