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 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 349 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is January 3, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 482,496 hours 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.
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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 13 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 4,409 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.
- 1547 –Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
- 1556 –Philip II becomes King of Spain.
- 1780 –American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
- 1920 –The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris.
- 1938 –The Benny Goodman Orchestra performed the first jazz concert at Carnegie Hall.
- 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.
- 2001 –US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War.
- 2006 –Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia’s new president. She becomes Africa’s first female elected head of state.
Who were born on January 16?
- 1872 –Henri Busser, French composer (d. 1973)
- 1901 –Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973)
- 1922 –Ernesto Bonino, Italian singer (d. 2008)
- 1946 –Ronnie Milsap, American singer and songwriter
- 1947 –Sarah Jane Olson, American political activist
- 1950 –Brian Castro, Australian author
- 1965 –Maxine Jones, American singer (En Vogue)
- 1969 –Neil Back, England rugby player
- 1979 –Mark Anthony Fernandez, Filipino actor
- 1991 –Matt Duchene, Canadian hockey player
Who died on January 16?
- 1554 –Christiern Pedersen, Danish humanist (b. 1480)
- 1585 –Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)
- 1834 –Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
- 1856 –Thaddeus William Harris, American naturalist (b. 1795)
- 1942 –Carole Lombard, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1957 –Arturo Toscanini, Italian conductor (b. 1867)
- 1967 –Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (b. 1901)
- 1979 –Ted Cassidy, American actor (b. 1932)
- 1988 –Andrija Artuković, Croatian war criminal (b. 1899)
- 1999 –Jim McClelland, Australian solicitor and politician (b. 1915)
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