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, 1,705,363,200 seconds 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
- 27 BC –Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
- 1556 –Philip II becomes King of Spain.
- 1761 –The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
- 1809 –Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
- 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.
- 1956 –President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
- 2001 –Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
- 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?
- 1821 –John C. Breckinridge, American lawyer and politician; 14th Vice President of the United States and Confederate general (d. 1875)
- 1853 –Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor and theatre manager (d. 1937)
- 1872 –Henri Busser, French composer (d. 1973)
- 1901 –Fulgencio Batista, Cuban leader (d. 1973)
- 1921 –Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
- 1935 –A.J. Foyt, American race car driver and team owner
- 1950 –Debbie Allen, American dancer and choreographer
- 1952 –L. Blaine Hammond, NASA astronaut
- 1972 –Salah Hissou, Moroccan long-distance runner
- 1991 –Matt Duchene, Canadian hockey player
Who died on January 16?
- 1585 –Edward Clinton, 1st Earl of Lincoln, English admiral (b. 1512)
- 1834 –Jean Nicolas Pierre Hachette, French mathematician (b. 1769)
- 1942 –Ernst Scheller, German Nazi politician (b. 1899)
- 1959 –Phan Khoi, Vietnamese intellectual (b. 1887)
- 1967 –Robert J. Van de Graaff, American nuclear physicist (b. 1901)
- 1968 –Bob Jones, Sr, American evangelist (b. 1883)
- 1981 –Bernard Lee, English actor (b. 1908)
- 1999 –Jim McClelland, Australian solicitor and politician (b. 1915)
- 2001 –Auberon Waugh, British author and journalist (b. 1939)
- 2002 –Michael Anthony Bilandic, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1923)
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