What happened this day in history January 16

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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