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
- 1547 –Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 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.
- 1780 –American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
- 1786 –The Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
- 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.
- 1942 –Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
- 1968 –The Youth International Party is founded.
- 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.
- 1979 –The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.
- 1991 –The United States goes to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
- 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.
- 2001 –US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War.
- 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.
- 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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