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
- 27 BC –Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
- 550 –Gothic War (535–554): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
- 1120 –The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- 1547 –Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 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.
- 1707 –The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
- 1786 –The Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
- 1878 –Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) – Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
- 1883 –The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
- 1909 –Ernest Shackleton’s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
- 1920 –The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris.
- 1924 –Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time.
- 1942 –Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
- 1945 –Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
- 1956 –President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1970 –Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
- 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.
- 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.
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