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What Happened on January 16th This Day in History

Year	Name
2016	Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.
2006	Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
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.
2002	The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
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.
1992	El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
1991	Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.
1979	The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
1969	Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, 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.
1964	Hello, Dolly! opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
1945	Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1942	Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
1921	The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochſa.
1920	Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated was founded on the campus of Howard University.
1920	The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
1919	The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
1909	Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1900	The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
1883	The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
1878	Russo-Turkish War (1877-78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
1862	Hartley Colliery disaster: Two hundred and four men and boys killed in a mining disaster. Prompted a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
1847	John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
1809	Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
1786	Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
1780	American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
1757	Forces of the Maratha Empire defeat a 5,000-strong army of the Durrani Empire in the Battle of Narela.
1707	The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
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, Spain.
1572	Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
1556	Philip II becomes King of Spain.
1547	Grand Duke Ivan IV of Muscovy becomes the first Tsar of Russia, replacing the 264-year-old Grand Duchy of Moscow with the Tsardom of Russia.
1492	The first grammar of the Spanish language (Gramática de la lengua castellana) is presented to Queen Isabella I.
1412	The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
1362	A storm tide in the North Sea ravages the East coast of England and destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand.
1120	The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
929	Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III established the Caliphate of Córdoba.
550	Gothic War: The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
378	General Siyaj K'ak' conquers Tikal, enlarging the domain of King Spearthrower Owl of Teotihuacán.
27 BCE	Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.

Famous People Born on January 16

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Year	Name
1974	Marlon Anderson, American baseball player and sportscaster
1935	Udo Lattek, German footballer, manager, and sportscaster (d. 2015)
1915	Leslie H. Martinson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016)
1987	Jake Epstein, Canadian actor
1895	Evripidis Bakirtzis, Greek soldier and politician (d. 1947)
1749	Vittorio Alfieri, Italian poet and playwright (d. 1803)
1918	Allan Ekelund, Swedish director, producer, and production manager (d. 2009)
1934	Bob Bogle, American rock guitarist and bass player (d. 2009)
1980	Albert Pujols, Dominican-American baseball player
1966	Jack McDowell, American baseball player

Famous People Deaths On January 16

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Date	Name
957	Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Madhara'i, Tulunid vizier (b. 871)
2010	Glen Bell, American businessman, founded Taco Bell (b. 1923)
2016	Joannis Avramidis, Greek sculptor (b. 1922)
1938	Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay Indian author and playwright (b. 1876)
1711	Joseph Vaz, Indian-Sri Lankan priest and saint (b. 1651)
2012	Joe Bygraves, Jamaican-English boxer (b. 1931)
2002	Robert Hanbury Brown, English astronomer and physicist (b. 1916)
2015	Yao Beina, Chinese singer (b. 1981)
970	Polyeuctus of Constantinople, Byzantine patriarch (b. 956)
1972	Ross Bagdasarian, Sr., American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor, created Alvin and the Chipmunks (b. 1919)