About January 16

January 16, 2022 is the 16th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 349 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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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 16 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.
  • 1362 –
    A storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand.
  • 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.
  • 1581 –
    The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
  • 1707 –
    The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
  • 1896 –
    Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
  • 1909 –
    Ernest Shackleton’s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • 1919 –
    Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
  • 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.
  • 1939 –
    The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
  • 1942 –
    Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
  • 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.
  • 1979 –
    The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.
  • 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.
  • 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 –
    The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.

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