January 16

Sunday 16, 2005:

Adriana Iliescu gives birth at age 66 and becomes the oldest woman in the world to do so.

Friday 16, 2004:

Goatse.cx is shut down by the Christmas Island Registry

Thursday 16, 2003:

Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which will be its final one. Columbia disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry.

Wednesday 16, 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.

Tuesday 16, 2001:

Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.

Sunday 16, 2000:

In Sacramento, California a commercial truck carrying evaporated milk is driven into the state capitol building, killing the driver.

Friday 16, 1998:

NASA announces that John Glenn will return to space when Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off in October 1998.

Thursday 16, 1997:

Ennis Cosby, the only son of actor Bill Cosby, is killed by a gunman while changing a flat tire in Los Angeles, California.

Thursday 16, 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.

Wednesday 16, 1991:

US serial killer Aileen Wuornos confesses to the murders of six men.

Saturday 16, 1988:

CBS fires sports commentator Jimmy 'the Greek' Snyder, a day after publicly stating that African Americans had been bred to produce stronger offspring during slavery.

Tuesday 16, 1979:

The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.

Sunday 16, 1977:

The Marx Brothers are inducted into the Motion Picture Hall of Fame.

Friday 16, 1970:

Curt Flood files suit, stating that major league baseball had violated the American anti-trust laws.

Thursday 16, 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. The Metroliner train begins service between New York and Washington with one round trip per day.

Sunday 16, 1966:

The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Thursday 16, 1964:

The first musical version of Hello, Dolly! opens at New York City's St. James Theatre.

Monday 16, 1961:

Mickey Mantle becomes the highest paid baseball player by signing a $75,000 contract.

Wednesday 16, 1957:

The Cavern Club opens in Liverpool.

Monday 16, 1956:

President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.

Tuesday 16, 1945:

Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.

Sunday 16, 1938:

Benny Goodman plays Carnegie Hall.

Thursday 16, 1919:

Temperance movement: The 18th Amendment, authorizing Prohibition, was passed by the Congress of the United States. It went into effect one year later, on January 16th, 1920.

Tuesday 16, 1917:

German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann sends the Zimmermann Telegram to Mexico, proposing a German-Mexican alliance against the United States

Saturday 16, 1909:

Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.

Tuesday 16, 1900:

The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounced its claims to the Samoan islands.

Tuesday 16, 1883:

The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil service, is passed.

Saturday 16, 1847:

John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.

Monday 16, 1809:

Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.

Friday 16, 1795:

French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands.

Sunday 16, 1780:

American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.

Thursday 16, 1777:

Vermont declares its independence from New York.

Friday 16, 1761:

British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.

Sunday 16, 1605:

The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid.

Friday 16, 1581:

English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.

Sunday 16, 1572:

The Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.

Monday 16, 1556:

Philip II becomes King of Spain.

Thursday 16, 1547:

Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.

Saturday 16, 1492:

The first grammar of a modern language, in Spanish, is presented to Queen Isabella.

Wednesday 16, 1456:

Painter Filippo Lippi elopes with Lucrezia Buti, a young nun from the convent of Saint Margherita.

Thursday 16, 1412:

The Medici family are made official bankers of the Papacy.

Saturday 16, 1362:

A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt.

Sunday 16, 929:

Emir Abd-ar-rahman III of Cordoba declares himself caliph, thereby establishing the Caliphate of Cordoba.

Tuesday 16, -27:

Octavian Caesar given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate.

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