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16 Jan 1120
The Council of Nablus is held establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem
16 Jan 1219
Floods in Northern Netherlands after storm thousands killed
16 Jan 1362
A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt
16 Jan 1412
The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy
16 Jan 1492
The first grammar of a modern language Spanish is presented to Queen Isabella.
16 Jan 1572
Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England
16 Jan 1581
English parliament passes laws against Catholicism
16 Jan 1707
The Act of Union is ratified by the Scottish Parliament
16 Jan 1749
Hoax article advertising fictitious theatrical performer The Bottle Conjuror drew huge crowds to the Haymarket Theatre London whose inevitable non-appearance caused a riot. Its alleged the Duke of Montagu perpetrated the fiasco to win a bet
16 Jan 1761
The British capture Pondicherry India from the French.
16 Jan 1765
Charles Messier catalogs M41 (galactic cluster in Canis Major)
16 Jan 1776
Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks
16 Jan 1780
Battle of Cape St Vincent British fleet under Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats Spanish squadron under Don Juan de Lngara
16 Jan 1795
French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht Netherlands
16 Jan 1809
Peninsular War The British defeat the French at the Battle of Corunna
16 Jan 1819
Godert Alexander Gerard Philip Baron van der Capellen becomes Governor-General of Dutch East Indies
16 Jan 1847
John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory
16 Jan 1862
Hartley Colliery disaster results in 204 deaths
16 Jan 1864
Heavy fighting takes place near Dandridge Tennessee
16 Jan 1865
Drunken sailor attacks munitions at Ft Fisher NC 40 die
16 Jan 1865
General William Sherman issues Field Order 15 (land for blacks)
16 Jan 1868
Refrigerator car patented by William Davis a fish dealer in Detroit
16 Jan 1870
Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to US after Civil War
16 Jan 1871
Jefferson Long of Georgia sworn in as 2nd black congressman
16 Jan 1877
Color organ (for light shows) patented by Bainbridge Bishop
16 Jan 1878
Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule
16 Jan 1879
January record 13 of snow falls in NYC (broken Jan 7 1996)
16 Jan 1883
Pendleton Act creates basis of US Civil Service system
16 Jan 1887
Cliff House damaged when powder cargo of schooner Parallel explodes
16 Jan 1889
128F (53C) Cloncurry Queensland (Australian record)
16 Jan 1896
Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM Newport Monmouthshire.
16 Jan 1900
The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands
16 Jan 1900
The US gains control over Tutuila in Samoa and several smaller Pacific islands
16 Jan 1905
Baseball outfielder Frank Huelsman completes eighth transaction in 8 months
16 Jan 1905
Stanley Cup Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Dawson City (Yukon) in 2 games Ottawa Silver 7 beats Dawson City (Yukon) 23-2 for Stanley Cup this is most lopsided playoff game Frank McGee scores 14 goals
16 Jan 1906
-Apr 13] Conference of Algeciras (about Morocco)
16 Jan 1908
Pinnacles National Monument California established
16 Jan 1909
British explorers David Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole as part of the Nimrod Expedition
16 Jan 1911
Pandora becomes 1st 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east
16 Jan 1913
British House of Commons accepts Home Rule for Ireland (but the Great War gets in the way of it happening)
16 Jan 1915
Congress authorizes 1 & 50 Panama-Pacific Intl Expo gold coin
16 Jan 1917
The Greek Government accepts reparations for Allied losses sustained in recent actions in Greece
16 Jan 1917
Zimmermann Telegram is sent from Germany to Mexico stating in the event of the US entering World War I on the allied side Mexico would be given Texas Arizona and New Mexico. Intercepted by British intelligence and partially deciphered by the next day. Its release in March shifts US public opinion in favor of war against Germany.
16 Jan 1918
Austria and Germany are disrupted by strikes as people express impatience with leaders continuing the war
16 Jan 1919
Prohibition ratified by 34 of US states Nebraska is 36th
16 Jan 1920
1st assembly of the League of Nations is held in Paris
16 Jan 1920
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated is founded at Howard University
16 Jan 1921
Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece (4th time)
16 Jan 1925
Leon Trotsky resigns as chairman of the Russian Revolutionary Military Council as he and Stalin battle for power in the aftermath of Lenins death.
16 Jan 1933
Bodyline Tour Australian batsman Bert Oldfields skull fractured by delivery by English bowler Harold Larwood third test in Adelaide
16 Jan 1936
1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah Florida
16 Jan 1936
Screen Actors Guild incorporates with King Vidor as president
16 Jan 1936
Spanish socialists communists and anarchists form Unidad Popular
16 Jan 1938
1st jazz concert held at Carnegie Hall (Benny Goodman)
16 Jan 1941
War Department forms first Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
16 Jan 1942
William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in US army
16 Jan 1943
-60F (-51C) Island Park Dam Idaho (state record)
16 Jan 1943
German 2nd SS-Panzer division evacuates Charkow
16 Jan 1943
Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad
16 Jan 1945
Scottish 52nd land division and 1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg
16 Jan 1948
35 Haganah members are ambushed & killed in Gush Etzyon
16 Jan 1949
Rape of Lucretia closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 23 performances
16 Jan 1949
KNBH (now KNBC) TV channel 4 in Los Angeles CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
16 Jan 1949
WTOP (now WUSA) TV channel 9 in Washington D.C. (CBS) 1st broadcast
16 Jan 1950
Belgium Luxembourg & Netherlands recognize Israel
16 Jan 1951
Worlds largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville Texas to 134th St New York City)
16 Jan 1953
Egyptian Premier General Naguib disbands all political parties
16 Jan 1953
KXLY TV channel 4 in Spokane WA (ABCCBS) begins broadcasting
16 Jan 1954
South Pacific closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1928 performances
16 Jan 1955
5th NFL Pro Bowl Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Western Conference beats Eastern Conference 26-19 MVP Billy Wilson SF 49ers WR
16 Jan 1956
Egyptian President Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine
16 Jan 1957
3 B-52s leave California for 1st non-stop round world flights
16 Jan 1957
Cavern Club opens on Matthews Street in Liverpool England home of The Beatles 1st appearance
16 Jan 1958
William Gibsons Two for the Seesaw premieres in NYC
16 Jan 1961
Conquering Hero opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 8 performances
16 Jan 1961
Russian espionage ring detected in Great Britain
16 Jan 1962
Shooting begins on Dr No the first James Bond film
16 Jan 1962
Suit accuses NYC Board of Education uses racial quotas
16 Jan 1962
12th NBA All-Star Game West beats East 150-130 at St. Louis
16 Jan 1963
13th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 115-108 at Los Angeles
16 Jan 1964
Hello Dolly opens at St James Theater NYC for 2844 performances
16 Jan 1964
AL owners vote 9-1 against Charlie Finley moving KC As to Louisville
16 Jan 1965
Oh What a Lovely War closes at Broadhurst NYC after 125 performances
16 Jan 1965
4th AFL All Star Game Jeppeson Stadium Houston Western Division beats Eastern Division 38-14 MVPs Keith Lincoln LA Chargers RB Willie Brown Denver Broncos DB
16 Jan 1965
The Searchers Love Potion Number 9 peaks at 3
16 Jan 1966
Harold R Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US
16 Jan 1966
Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi seizes power in the chaos caused by a military coup and becomes the Nigerian Head of State
16 Jan 1966
Chicago is granted an NBA franchise to be called the Bulls become the 3rd NBA franchise in the city after the Chicago Stags (194650) and Chicago PackersZephyrs (now Washington Wizards)
16 Jan 1967
Lucius Amerson becomes 1st southern (Alabama) African American sheriff in 20th century
16 Jan 1968
21st NHL All-Star Game Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto Maple Leafs beat All-Stars 4-3 MVP Bruce Gamble Toronto G
16 Jan 1968
Jay Allens Prime of Miss Jean Brodie premieres in NYC
16 Jan 1969
Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
16 Jan 1970
Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseballs reserve clause
16 Jan 1970
AAU player Steve Myers makes a basketball field goal of 923 from out of bounds Tacoma-it shouldnt have counted but was allowed
16 Jan 1970
Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects
16 Jan 1970
Inaugural Buffalo Sabres owners Seymour H. Knox III and Northrup Knox hire former Toronto Maple Leafs general manager and head coach Punch Imlach in the same capacities for their new NHL franchise
16 Jan 1972
Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes European all-round lady skating champ
16 Jan 1972
Super Bowl VI Tulane Stadium New Orleans Dallas Cowboys beat Miami Dolphins 24-3 MVP Roger Staubach Dallas QB
16 Jan 1973
NBC presents 440th & final showing of Bonanza
16 Jan 1973
USSRs Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of Moon
16 Jan 1976
Donny & Marie [Osmond] musical variety show premieres on ABC TV
16 Jan 1976
Peter Frampton released platinum live album Frampton Comes Alive
16 Jan 1977
Caps H Monahan scored on 2nd penalty shot against Islanders
16 Jan 1979
Bakhtiar government established by the Shah in Iran will preside until unrest in the country subsides
16 Jan 1981
Protestant gunmen shoot & wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey & husband
16 Jan 1985
Playboy announces end of stapling centerfolds
16 Jan 1986
First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
16 Jan 1988
4th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
16 Jan 1988
Jimmy the Greek Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks
16 Jan 1988
NFL St Louis Cardinals announce move to Phoenix
16 Jan 1989
USSR announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars
16 Jan 1989
5th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
16 Jan 1990
2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering
16 Jan 1991
7th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Lives wins
16 Jan 1992
Two Shakespearean Actors opens at Cort Theater NYC for 29 performances
16 Jan 1992
Chapultepec Peace Accords are signed in Mexico City which ends the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War
16 Jan 1993
25th NAACP Image Awards Boyz n the Hood wins Outstanding Motion Picture
16 Jan 1995
UPN (Universal-Parmount Network) begins telecasting (WWOR in NYC)
16 Jan 1997
Anthony Stuart takes ODI hat-trick Aus v Pakistan MCG
16 Jan 2001
Congolese President Laurent-Dsir Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
16 Jan 2001
US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War
16 Jan 2001
A fuel supply tanker runs aground off the island of San Cristobal causing an ecological disaster
16 Jan 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.
16 Jan 2005
At 66 years old Romanian university lecturer Adriana Illiescu becomes the oldest birth mother in the world
16 Jan 2013
24 people die after three car bombs exploded in Idlib Governorate Syria
16 Jan 2013
A four day occupation of an Algerian BP facility by Amenas militants begins killing 48 hostages
16 Jan 2013
25 people are killed after an apartment block collapses in Alexandria Egypt
16 Jan 2014
19th Critics Choice Movie Awards 12 Years a Slave wins Best Film
16 Jan 2016
First ever flower grown in space - a zinnia aboard the International Space Station using NASA Veggie system
16 Jan 1556
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V appoints his son Philip II King of Spain
16 Jan 1847
John C. Frmont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory
16 Jan 1905
Stanley Cup Deys Arena Ottawa ON Ottawa Senators rout Dawson City (Yukon) 23-2 for 2-0 series sweep most lopsided challenge playoff game in history Frank McGee 14 goals
16 Jan 1925
Leon Trotsky resigns as chairman of the Russian Revolutionary Military Council as he and Joseph Stalin battle for power in the aftermath of Vladimir Lenins death
16 Jan 1933
Crickets Bodyline Tour Australian batsman Bert Oldfields skull fractured by delivery bowled by Englishman Harold Larwood during the third test in Adelaide
16 Jan 1938
LPGA Titleholders Championship Womens Golf Augusta CC Patty Berg retains title by a massive 14 strokes ahead of Jane Cothran
16 Jan 1972
Super Bowl VI Tulane Stadium New Orleans LA Dallas Cowboys beat Miami Dolphins 24-3 MVP Roger Staubach Dallas QB
16 Jan 2003
The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry.
16 Jan 2019
Golden State Warriors break 2 franchise records in 142-111 win over Denver Nuggets in 1st quarter record 10 three-point field goals on way to franchise best 51 points in the period
16 Jan 2019
Australian Bureau of Meteorology tweets last four days were the countrys hottest on record with Tarcoola South Australia reaching 49 C (120 F) Port Augusta 48.5 C (119 F)
16 Jan 1865
Munitions magazine explodes at Fort Fisher North Carolina killing or injuring 200 soldiers carelessness of drunken soldiers blamed. [1]
16 Jan 2001
US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the SpanishAmerican War
16 Jan 2019
Egyptian city Cairo is engulfed by a sandstorm turning it orange
16 Jan 2019
Explosion by a suicide bomber aimed at US-led coalition forces at a market in Manjib Syria kills about 18 including four Americans
16 Jan 1939
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a 14 month long bombing campaign in England
16 Jan 1967
1st black government installed in Bahamas led by Lynden Pindling as leader of the Progressive Liberal Party
16 Jan 1970
Curt Flood files a civil lawsuit challenging baseballs reserve clause [1]
16 Jan 1909
Anrtarctic explorers Douglas Mawson Edgeworth David and Alistair Mackay reach south magnetic pole as part of the Nimrod Expedition
16 Jan 1922
Ralph Vaughan Williams Pastoral Symphony premieres in London with Adrian Boult conducting
16 Jan 1957
3 US B-52 bombers leave California for 1st non-stop around the world flights
16 Jan 1957
Cavern Club opens on Matthews Street in Liverpool England home of many performances by The Beatles
16 Jan 1969
Jan Palach a Czech student self-immolates in protest after the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
16 Jan 1972
Dutch speed skater Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes European Allround ladies champion for the first of three consecutive years
16 Jan 1973
NBC presents 440th & final showing of western series Bonanza
16 Jan 1572
Thomas Howard 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried and convicted of high treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England
16 Jan 1749
Hoax article advertising fictitious theatrical performer The Bottle Conjuror drew huge crowds to the Haymarket Theatre London whose inevitable non-appearance caused a riot. Its alleged the Duke of Montagu perpetrated the fiasco to win a bet.
16 Jan 1756
Britain & Prussia sign Treaty of Westminster to respect each others European territories
16 Jan 1819
Godert van der Capellen becomes Governor-General of Dutch East Indies
16 Jan 1862
Hartley Colliery disaster in Northumberland England results in 204 deaths
16 Jan 1920
First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Paris
16 Jan 1953
KXLY TV channel 4 in Spokane Washington (ABCCBS) begins broadcasting
16 Jan 1964
Jerry Hermans musical Hello Dolly starring Carol Channing opens at St James Theatre NYC runs for 2844 performances and wins 10 Tony Awards
16 Jan 1668
Infamous sword duel between George Villiers Duke of Buckingham and Francis Talbot Earl of Shrewsbury over Anna Duchess of Shrewsbury and mistress of Buckingham. The Earl is mortally wounded. [1]
16 Jan 1879
The Windom Resolution by Minnesota Senator William Windom encourages black migration out of the South helping trigger the Exodus of . 6000 southern blacks flee Louisiana Mississippi and Texas for Kansas. [1]
16 Jan 1905
Stanley Cup Deys Arena Ottawa Ontario Ottawa Senators rout Dawson City (Yukon) 23-2 for 2-0 series sweep most lopsided challenge playoff game in history Frank McGee 14 goals
16 Jan 1917
Zimmermann Telegram is sent from Germany to Mexico offering promise of Texas Arizona and New Mexico being given to Mexico in return for joining World War I if the US enters on the Allied side British intelligence intercepts the communication and partially deciphers it by the next day. Its release in March shifts US public opinion in favor of war against Germany.
16 Jan 1944
US Coast Guard pilot Stewart Graham first to fly a helicopter from a ship taking off for a surveillance mission from British freighter SS Daghestan part of a convoy sailing from New York to Liverpool England
16 Jan 1973
NBC presents 440th and final showing of western TV series Bonanza
16 Jan 1973
Scientists at Corning Glass granted U.S. patent 3711262 for optical fiber (invented August 1970) - beginning a telecommunications revolution [1]
16 Jan 2019
Houston guard James Harden becomes first player to score 55 points in back-to-back NBA games since Wilt Chamberlain (1962) scores 58 in 145-142 OT loss to Brooklyn 18 straight games with 30 points
16 Jan 2019
UN says at least 890 killed in ethnic violence in the western Democratic Republic of Congo in December with 465 building destroyed delaying the presidential election
16 Jan 2020
Former Sacramento State softball player Alyssa Nakken becomes first woman to hold a coaching position on a MLB staff when named an assistant by the San Francisco Giants
16 Jan 2020
Newly appointed manager Carlos Beltran and New York Mets mutually agree to part ways because of his role in Houston Astros sign stealing scandal third manager forced out of a job as a result of the allegations
16 Jan 2021
10 Nepali climbers become the first to reach the summit of K2 in winter on the China-Pakistan border
16 Jan 2021
India begin the vaccination of its 1.3 billion people for COVID-19
16 Jan 2023
Italys most wanted mobster Matteo Messina Denaro (61) arrested at a private cancer clinic in Palermo Sicily after being on the run for 30 years [1]
16 Jan 2024
Iran carries out a missile attack on militant group Jaish al-Adl in Balochistan Pakistan killing two children and angering Pakistan [1]
16 Jan 1909
Antarctic explorers Douglas Mawson Edgeworth David and Alistair Mackay reach south magnetic pole as part of the Nimrod Expedition
16 Jan 1936
First photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race Track in Hialeah Florida
16 Jan 2003
Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which is its final one disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry
16 Jan 2016
First-ever flower grown in space a zinnia aboard the International Space Station using NASAs Veggie system
16 Jan 2020
The MacLean brothers Ewan (27) Jamie (26) and Lachlan (21) of Scotland arrive in Antigua after rowing a boat across the Atlantic Ocean in record 35 days 9 hours and 9 minutes in addition to making the fastest three-man crossing they are also the youngest and first sibling trio
16 Jan 2025
Actor and director Justin Baldoni countersues actress Blake Lively for 400 million for defamation and extortion over their film It Ends With Us after Lively earlier sued for him for harassment and a smear campaign [1]