What are the important events that happened on January 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
January 16: Facts & Myths About This Day
January 16 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 3, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,422,720 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hexadecagon’ day.
Capricorn is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,043 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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January 16 Historical Events
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.
1780 –
American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
1809 –
Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
1878 –
Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) – Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
1942 –
Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
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.
1986 –
First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
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.
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.
Who were born on January 16?
1757 –
Richard Goodwin Keats, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1834)
1875 –
Leonor Michaelis, German enzyme kinetic theorist (d. 1947)
1922 –
Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
1933 –
Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)
1947 –
Magdalen Nabb, British author (d. 2007)
1947 –
Sarah Jane Olson, American political activist
1950 –
Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer (Can)
1972 –
Salah Hissou, Moroccan long-distance runner
1975 –
Gillian Iliana Waters, American actress
1981 –
Bobby Zamora, English footballer
Who died on January 16?
1400 –
John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter, English politician (b. 1352)
1659 –
Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (b. 1580)
1710 –
Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
1879 –
Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (b. 1827)
1962 –
Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (b. 1883)
1979 –
August Heissmeyer, German SS officer (b. 1897)
1995 –
Eric Mottram, English poet, teacher, critic, and editor (b. 1924)
1997 –
Ennis Cosby, son of entertainer Bill Cosby (b. 1969)
2002 –
Michael Anthony Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
2006 –
Stanley Biber, American surgeon (b. 1923)
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