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What Happened on January 16th This Day in History

Year	Name
2020	The first impeachment of Donald Trump formally moves into its trial phase in the United States Senate.
2020	The United States Senate ratifies the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement as a replacement for NAFTA.
2018	Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.
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.
2011	Syrian civil war: The Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) is established with the stated goal of re-organizing Syria along the lines of democratic confederalism.[28]
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	War in Afghanistan: 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	Second Congo War: Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards in Kinshasa.
2001	US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
1995	An avalanche hits the Icelandic village Súðavík, destroying 25 homes and burying 26 people, 14 of whom died.
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.
1983	Turkish Airlines Flight 158 crashes at Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Ankara, Turkey, killing 47 and injuring 20.
1979	Iranian Revolution: 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	Space Race: 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.
1959	Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 205 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Astor Piazzolla International Airport in Mar del Plata, Argentina, killing 51.
1945	World War II: Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1942	The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins deporting Jews from the Łódź Ghetto to Chełmno extermination camp.
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 Ľubochňa.
1920	The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
1919	Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later.
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 enacted by Congress.
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, prompting a change in UK law which henceforth required all collieries to have at least two independent means of escape.
1847	Westward expansion of the United States: 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 and found guilty of 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.
1537	Bigod's Rebellion, an armed insurrection attempting to resist the English Reformation, begins.
1362	Saint Marcellus's flood kills at least 25,000 people on the shores of the North Sea.
1120	Crusades: The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
929	Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III establishes 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	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
1925	James Robinson Risner, American general and pilot (d. 2013)
1516	Bayinnaung, king of Burma (d. 1581)
1924	Katy Jurado, Mexican actress (d. 2002)
1876	Claude Buckenham, English cricketer and footballer (d. 1937)
1931	Johannes Rau, German journalist and politician, eighth Federal President of Germany (d. 2006)
1477	Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (d. 1547)
1918	Clem Jones, Australian surveyor and politician, eighth Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2007)
1907	Paul Nitze, American banker and politician, tenth United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 2004)
1920	Elliott Reid, American actor and screenwriter (d. 2013)
1932	Dian Fossey, American zoologist and anthropologist (d. 1985)

Famous People Deaths On January 16

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Date	Name
1400	John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician, Lord Great Chamberlain (b. 1352)
1981	Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
1917	George Dewey, American admiral (b. 1837)
2006	Stanley Biber, American soldier and physician (b. 1923)
1967	Robert J. Van de Graaff, American physicist and academic (b. 1901)
2019	John C. Bogle, American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (b. 1929)
1996	Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (b. 1903)
1856	Thaddeus William Harris, American entomologist and botanist (b. 1795)
1995	Eric Mottram, English poet and critic (b. 1924)
1999	Jim McClelland, Australian lawyer, jurist, and politician, 12th Minister for Industry and Science (b. 1915)