About January 16
January 16, 2020 is the 16th day of the year 2020 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 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 9 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.
- 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.
- 1492 –The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
- 1605 –The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid.
- 1707 –The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
- 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.
- 1900 –The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
- 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.
- 1956 –President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
- 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.
- 1970 –Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
- 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 –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.
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