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'''January 16''' is the 16th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 349 days remaining (350 in leap years). {| align=right id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"|Dec – '''January''' – Feb |- style="background:#ccccff; text-align:center;" |width=14%| Su |width=14%| Mo |width=14%| Tu |width=14%| We |width=14%| Th |width=14%| Fr |width=14%| Sa |- style="text-align:center;" |colspan=4|   | 1 | 2 | 3 |- style="text-align:center;" | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |- style="text-align:center;" | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |- style="text-align:center;" | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |- style="text-align:center;" | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |- style="background: lightblue" |colspan="7" align="center" bgcolor="#ccccff"| 2004 day arrangement
All days |} == Events == * 27 BC - Octavian Caesar given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate. * 1362 - One of the North Sea's greatest stormtides ever destroys the island of Strand with the city of Rungholt. * 1547 - Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia. * 1556 - Philip II becomes King of Spain. * 1572 - The Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. * 1581 - English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism. * 1761 - British capture Pondicherry, India from the French. * 1777 - Vermont declares its independence from New York. * 1780 - American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent. * 1795 - French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands. * 1809 - Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of Corunna. * 1847 - John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. * 1883 - The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil service, is passed. * 1900 - The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the Samoan islands. * 1909 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. * 1919 - The 18th Amendment, authorizing Prohibition, goes into effect in the United States. * 1938 - Benny Goodman plays Carnegie Hall. * 1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called ''F�hrerbunker''. * 1956 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine. * 1957 - The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool. * 1961 - Mickey Mantle becomes the highest paid baseball player by signing a $75,000 contract. * 1964 - The first musical version of ''Hello, Dolly!'' opens at New York City's St. James Theatre. * 1966 - The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City. * 1970 - Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. * 1970 - Curt Flood files suit, stating that major league baseball had violated the American anti-trust laws. * 1977 - The Marx Brothers were inducted into the Motion Picture Hall of Fame. * 1979 - The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt. * 1988 - Sports commentator Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder is fired by CBS a day after publicly stating that African Americans had been bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery. * 1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins. * 1992 - El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City that ends a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75,000. * 1997 - Ennis Cosby, the only son of actor Bill Cosby, is killed by a gunman while changing a flat tire in Los Angeles, California. * 1998 - NASA announces that John Glenn will return to space when Space Shuttle ''Discovery'' blasts off in October 1998. * 2000 - In Sacramento, California a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the state capitol building killing the driver. * 2002 - A student shoots 6 people at the Appalachian School of Law. Three of those shot die. * 2002 - John Ashcroft announces that so-called "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh would be tried in the United States. * 2002 - The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining Taliban. * 2003 - Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' takes off for mission STS-107 which will be its final one. ''Columbia'' disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry. * 2004 - Goatse.cx is shut down by the Christmas Island Registry == Births == * 1838 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (d. 1917) * 1874 - Robert W. Service, poet (d. 1958) * 1881 - Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming, radio pioneer * 1898 - Margaret Booth, film editor (d. 2002) * 1902 - Eric Liddell, Scottish runner * 1909 - Ethel Merman, singer, actress (d. 1984) * 1910 - Dizzy Dean, Baseball Hall of Famer (d. 1974) * 1912 - Franz Tumler, Austrian narrator (d. 1998) * 1918 - Stirling Silliphant, writer, producer (d. 1996) * 1922 - Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer * 1924 - Katy Jurado, actress (d. 2002) * 1928 - William Kennedy, author * 1931 - Johannes Rau, President of Germany * 1932 - Dian Fossey, zoologist (d. 1985) * 1935 - Udo Lattek, football coach * 1935 - A.J. Foyt, automobile racer * 1943 - Brian Ferneyhough, composer * 1944 - Jim Stafford, singer * 1946 - Kabir Bedi, actor * 1946 - Ronnie Milsap, singer * 1946 - Katia Ricciarelli, opera singer * 1947 - Laura Schlessinger, psychiatrist, radio talk show host * 1948 - John Carpenter, director * 1948 - Dalvanius, New Zealand entertainer (d. 2002 ) * 1948 - Cliff Thorburn, Canadian snooker player * 1950 - Debbie Allen, actress, dancer, choreographer * 1959 - Sade, singer * 1969 - Roy Jones Jr., boxer * 1974 - Mitchel Roitman, scientist, psychologist * 1974 - Kate Moss, supermodel * 1979 - Aaliyah, singer (d. 2001) * 1980 - Albert Pujols, baseball player == Deaths == * 1747 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680) * 1794 - Edward Gibbon, historian (b. 1737) * 1806 - William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1759) * 1876 - Edmund H. Sears, composer * 1917 - George Dewey, Admiral (b. 1837) * 1936 - Albert Fish, serial killer (electrocuted) (b. 1870) * 1942 - Carole Lombard, actress (b. 1908) * 1957 - Arturo Toscanini, conductor (b. 1867) * 1962 - Ivan Meštrović, sculptor (b. 1883) * 1982 - Red Smith, sports columnist * 1995 - Eric Mottram - poet, teacher, critic, editor (b. 1924) * 2002 - Michael Bilandic, mayor of Chicago, IL (b. 1923) * 2002 - Eddie Meduza == Holidays and observances == ---- January 15 - January 17 - December 16 - February 16 -- listing of all days {| border="0" id="toc" style="margin: 0 auto" align=center |align=center| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |} af:01-16 ar:16 يناير bg:16 януари ca:16 de gener cs:16. leden cy:16 Ionawr da:16. januar de:16. 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