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

  • 1120 –
    The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
  • 1492 –
    The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
  • 1572 –
    Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
  • 1581 –
    The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
  • 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.
  • 1780 –
    American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
  • 1847 –
    John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
  • 1878 –
    Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) – Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
  • 1900 –
    The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
  • 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.
  • 1938 –
    The Benny Goodman Orchestra performed the first jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.
  • 1945 –
    Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
  • 1968 –
    The Youth International Party is founded.
  • 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.
  • 1991 –
    The United States goes to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
  • 2001 –
    Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
  • 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.
  • 2006 –
    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia’s new president. She becomes Africa’s first female elected head of state.

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