January 16th Events

January 16 is the 16th (sixteenth) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar . There are 349 days left in the year and 350 in leap years .

27 BC: In the city of Rome , the Senate grants Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian the nickname “Augustus.”
929: In Spain , Abd al-Rahman III proclaims himself Caliph of Córdoba .
1219: The “first St. Marcellus’ Day flood” occurs in West Frisia and Groningen, killing around 36 people.
1362– The second and worst day of the North Sea storm (“Second St. Marcellus Day Flood”) sweeps across the Netherlands , England , and northern Germany , causing between 40,000 and 100,000 deaths.
1493: In the Caribbean Sea , Christopher Columbus ‘ ships explore several islands in the Bahamas , and in the following weeks they will sail along the eastern coasts of Cuba and northern Haiti .
1547: In Russia , Ivan the Terrible proclaims himself ” Tsar of all the Russias.”
1556: In Spain, Charles I cedes the crown of Castile and Aragon to his son Philip II .
1605 : The first edition of The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Manchaby Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra is published in Madrid (Kingdom of Spain) .
1644: In Colombia , an earthquake devastates the village of Pamplona .
1707: In Scotland , Parliament approves the Act of Union with England , thus creating a new State, which is given the name of Great Britain .
1777: In the city of Havana, construction begins on the Alameda de Paula .
1791: The National Gendarmerie is created in France .
1809: In La Coruña ( Spain ), Napoleon ‘s French army defeats the British army .
1834: In Spain , establishment of the judicial division of the country.
1846: In Argentina, 20 km north of the town of Rosario ( Che ‘s city ), on the banks of the Paraná River , the forces of Juan Manuel de Rosas defeat an Anglo-French fleet in the second battle of San Lorenzo that had blocked access to the ports on the Río de la Plata (opposite Buenos Aires) and the Paraná River.
1856: Austria and Russia sign a bilateral agreement during the Russo-Turkish War.
1861: In Spain, submarine telegraphic communication between the peninsula and the Balearic Islands begins to operate .
1869: In Mexico , President Benito Juárez creates the state of Hidalgo by decree .
1885: The first issue of the magazine Cuba Intelectual is published in Havana .
1891: In the United States, the last uprising of the Dakota Indians is crushed .
1902: Germany obtains the concession to build the Konya- Baghdad railway in the Ottoman Empire .
1902: In the United Kingdom, physiologists William Maddock Bayliss and Ernest Henry Starling discover the hormone called secretin in the duodenum .
1906 : In the city of Algeciras (Kingdom of Spain) the Algeciras Conferencebegins , in which representatives of the four invading countries of Morocco ( Spain , France , Germany and the United Kingdom ) meet with the aim of deciding the fate of this African country.
1908: In the city of Chicago ( United States ), the police organize raids and repression against thousands of striking workers.
1909 : Ernest Shackleton’s expedition claims to have reached the south magnetic pole (but the recorded location may be incorrect).
1912: In China , Prime Minister Yuan Shikai is unharmed in a bomb attack.
1914: In the Russian Empire , Tsar Nicholas II authorizes the poet Maxim Gorky to return to his country after eight years of exile.
1915: In Mexico , General Eulalio Gutiérrez Ortiz , after being manipulated by Pancho Villa ‘s troops, decided to leave the capital on January 16, 1915 and move his government to San Luis Potosí , where he declared Villa and Venustiano Carranza ” traitors of the revolutionary spirit” and formally resigned from office on June 2 , 1915 .
1916: In the Caucasus ( Russia ) a major offensive against the Turks begins .
1919: In Poland , the Constituent Assembly confirms pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski as head of government.
1919: In Europe , the Allies extend the armistice with Germany until February 16 .
1920: Prohibition comes into effect in the United States , prohibiting (unsuccessfully) the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages and, paradoxically, ending up generating smuggling networks and the beginning of the mafias that still plague the country today.
1921: In Cuba , the flight of the Goliath plane inaugurates the air postal service.
1922 : The University Athletic Commissionis created in Havana , chaired by Adolfo Aragón.
1924 : The magazine Archivos del Folklore Cubanois published in Havana .
1924: In Querétaro ( Mexico ) bloody clashes occur between supporters of Adolfo de la Huerta and those of Plutarco Elías Calles .
1928: The VI Pan-American Conference is inaugurated in Havana ( Cuba ), where the Code of Private International Law is approved.
1929: In the run-up to the Chaco War (1932-1935), Paraguay informs Bolivia that all Paraguayan forces have been demobilized.
1941: During World War II , Nazi air attacks against the civilian population of the island of Malta begin , thus beginning the war in the Mediterranean Sea .
1941: Chile and Bolivia sign a non-aggression pact.
1943: In Germany , first Allied air attack on Berlin since late 1941.
1944: In the United Kingdom , American General Dwight D. Eisenhower arrives in London to lead the troops that will fight in Europe in World War II .
1946: In the United Kingdom , Spanish child prodigy Arturo Pomar wins the London chess tournament .
1952 : The state of Baja Californiais created in Mexico .
1956: In Egypt , by constitutional mandate, Islam becomes the official religion.
1957: Jet planes take off from the United States to make the first non-stop circumnavigation of the globe.
1958: Near Yara (Oriente province) – in the context of the Cuban Revolution – the second attack on Veguita occurs .
1961: The National Literacy Commission is established in Havana. Throughout Cuba , the revolutionary government begins a census of illiterate people in order to organize the National Literacy Campaign .
1962: In the Dominican Republic , a coup d’état deposes the president, Joaquín Balaguer , and establishes a Government Junta for 48 hours.
1966: In Havana, the 27 Latin American delegations participating in the First Tricontinental Conference agree – on the initiative of the Chilean socialist Salvador Allende – to create the Latin American Solidarity Organization (OLAS).
1966: In Cuba, right-handed baseball player Aquino Abreu throws a back-to-back no-hitter against the Occidentales team, achieving the same feat as American baseball player Johnny van der Meer.
1968: In Guatemala , the dictatorship declares a “state of emergency” following the murder of two American soldiers – who were providing advice on torture – in a guerrilla attack.
1969: In Prague ( Czechoslovakia ), student Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Wenzel Square, in protest against the Soviet occupation of his country and the suppression of individual freedoms.
1969: The Soviet Union successfully carries out the first docking maneuver between two manned spacecraft .
1970: In La Paz ( Bolivia ) large demonstrations take place in support of President Alfredo Ovando Candía .
1971: In Chile , an attempt to assassinate socialist president Salvador Allende fails .
1973: In Pamplona ( Basque Country ), a commando of the terrorist group ETA kidnaps the industrialist Felipe Huarte.
1975: In Portugal , the agreement for the independence of Angola is signed in Lisbon .
1975: In Chile, during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet , Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez is the victim of an assassination attempt.
1976 : The Rubén Martínez Villena Birthplace Museumis founded in the city of Alquízar ( Havana ) .
1979: The Shah (king) of Iran , Mohamed Reza Pahlevi , goes into exile.
1984: In the city of Barcelona ( Catalonia ), after 5 months and 6 days of testing, regular programming in Catalan begins on TV3.
1985: In Israel , the Government decides to withdraw its troops from Lebanon in three phases.
1986 : The first major anti- rubellavaccination campaign is carried out in Cuba .
1985: In Israel , the Government decides to withdraw its troops from Lebanon in three phases.
1987: In China , Hu Yaobang, secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , resigns. He is replaced by Zhao Ziyang .
1989 : In New York(United States), the UN Security Council approves the plan for the independence of Namibia and asks the South African government to reduce its military presence in that territory.
1991: In Washington DC (United States), President George HW Bush orders the beginning of the Gulf War with Operation Desert Storm.
1992 : The Chapultepec Peace Accordsare signed at Chapultepec Castle ( Mexico City ) between the Government of El Salvador and the FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front) guerrillas, ending twelve years of civil war in that country.
1996: Cuba joins the international convention on the suppression and punishment of crimes against internationally protected persons.
2001: In the Galapagos Islands , the ship Jessica runs aground off Puerto Baquerizo Moreno .
2003: The space shuttle Columbia takes off from Cape Canaveral , but disintegrates 16 days later upon re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere.
2005 : The Aídaseries premieres in Spain on the Telecinco channel .
2015: After 12 years missing on Mars , the European space probe Beagle 2 is found with the help of images taken by NASA ‘s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter .

Births

1245– Edmund of Lancaster , English aristocrat and politician (d. 1296).
1409: Renato I , Neapolitan king (d. 1480).
1500: Antonio Musa Brassavola , Italian physicist, physician and botanist (d. 1554).
1562: Juan de Torres Osorio , Spanish religious (d. 1633).
1616: Francis de Beaufort , French aristocrat (d. 1669).
1675: Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon , French writer (d. 1755).
1728: Niccolò Piccinni , Italian composer (d. 1800).
1733: Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard , French writer (d. 1817).
1745: Antonio José de Cavanilles , Spanish botanist and scientist (d. 1804).
1749: Vittorio Alfieri , Italian playwright and poet (d. 1803).
1763: François Joseph Talma , French director and actor (d. 1836).
1821: John C. Breckinridge , American politician and military officer (d. 1875).
1826: Mariano Escobedo , Mexican military officer and politician (d. 1902).
1838: Franz Brentano , German philosopher (d. 1917).
1853: André Michelin , French industrialist and inventor (d. 1931).
1870: Aurelio Cabrera Gallardo , Spanish sculptor, professor, illustrator and archaeologist (d. 1936).
1872– Edward Gordon Craig , British theatre director (d. 1966).
1872: Enrique Núñez de Villavicencio y Palomino , Cuban doctor, founder of the first private clinic in his country.
1875: Eleanor Michaelis , German biochemist and physicist (d. 1947).
1877: Marcelo Adrian Obregon , Spanish military man and one of the last of the Philippines (d. 1939).
1882: Ernestina Lecuona , Cuban composer, pianist and teacher (d. 1951).
1893: Vsevolod Pudovkin , Russian filmmaker
1885: Práxedis W. Caballero , Mexican soldier (d. 1940).
1896: El Andarín Carvajal (Félix Carvajal Soto), Cuban athlete (d. 1949).
1897: Carlos Pellicer , Mexican writer and poet (d. 1977).
1898: Irving Rapper , American filmmaker
1900: Pepe Arias , Argentine actor (d. 1967).
1900: Edith Frank-Holländer, German personality, mother of Anne Frank (d. 1945).
1901: Fulgencio Batista , Cuban military officer, criminal and dictator (d. 1973).
1901: Rosita Quiroga , Argentine singer and tango player (d. 1984).
1901– Frank Zamboni , American inventor (d. 1988).
1902: Eric Liddell , British athlete (d. 1945).
1903: Eduardo Braun-Menéndez , Argentine physiologist born in Chile (d. 1959).
1904: Manuel Lora Tamayo , Spanish scientist, president of the Royal Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences.
1905: Ernesto Halffter , Spanish composer (d. 1989).
1911: Eduardo Frei Montalva , Chilean politician and president (d. 1982).
1911: Roberto Quiroga, Argentine tango singer and actor (b. 1965).
1912: Fernando Benítez , Mexican writer and journalist (d. 2000).
1914: Ralph Pappier , Argentine filmmaker of Chinese origin (d. 1998).
1917: Giorgio Colli , Italian philosopher and historian (d. 1979).
1918: Marcelo González Martín , Spanish cardinal (d. 2004).
1920: Josep Gonzalvo , Spanish footballer (d. 1978).
1924: Eugenio Giner , Spanish cartoonist (d. 1994).
1924: Francisco PanchitoHernández , Mexican soccer player (d. 2011).
1924: Katy Jurado , Mexican actress (d. 2002).
1926: Tandarica (Alexander Veterany), Argentine actor and comedian of Romanian origin (d. 1995).
1928: Pilar Lorengar , Spanish soprano (d. 1996).
1928: Amelita Vargas (Amelia Graciela Vargas Ipaneca), Cuban actress, singer, vedette and dancer living in Argentina (d. 2019).
1929: Martín Klein , Cuban revolutionary fighter and pilot (d. 1961).
1930: Rogelio Groba , Spanish musician and composer (d. 2022).
1931: Johannes Rau , German politician, President of Germany between 1999 and 2004 (d. 2006).
1932: Dian Fossey , American zoologist (d. 1985).
1932: Mike Ribas, Spanish-born Argentine pianist, arranger and composer (d. 2009).
1933: Julio Medina , Colombian actor.
1933: Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004).
1934: Marilyn Horne , American mezzo-soprano.
1935: AJ Foyt , American racing driver and team owner.
1936: Mario Sánchez , Argentine actor and comedian (d. 2007).
1939: Ralph Gibson , American photographer.
1940: Roberto Roena , Puerto Rican salsa dancer and bongo player (d. 2021).
1940: Franz Müntefering, German politician.
1942: Nicole Fontaine , French politician (d. 2018).
1942: René Angélil, Canadian singer (d. 2016).
1943: Brian Ferneyhough , British composer.
1944: Jill Tarter , American astronomer.
1945: Betty Missiego , Spanish singer.
1946: Kabir Bedi , Indian actor.
1948: John Carpenter , American filmmaker.
1948: Gregor Gysi, German politician.
1949: Jorge Velasco Mackenzie , Ecuadorian writer (d. 2021).
1950: Debbie Allen , American actress and choreographer.
1952: Fuad II , Egyptian aristocrat, king between 1952 and 1953.
1954: Morten Peter Meldal , Danish chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022.
1954: Pedro Mari Sánchez, Spanish actor.
1956: Mohamed Ali Rashwan , Egyptian judoka.
1956: Martin Jol , Dutch footballer and coach.
1957: Ricardo Darín , Argentine actor.
1958: Anatoli Boukreev , Russian climber (d. 1997).
1958: Paolo el Roquero(Jorge Montejo), Argentine actor and comedian.
1958: Tony Pulis, British footballer and manager.
1959: Sade Adu , British singer of Nigerian origin.
1959: Ramón María Calderé, Spanish footballer and football coach.
1960: Luis de Guindos , Spanish economist and politician.
1961: José Manuel Ochotorena , Spanish footballer.
1963: James May , co-presenter of the British band’s show Top Gear.
1966: Miguel Angel Mancera , Mexican politician.
1966: Carlos Sousa, Portuguese rally driver.
1967: Alberto Puig , Spanish motorcycle racer.
1969: Max Cachimba (Juan Pablo González), Argentine cartoonist and visual artist.
1969: Dead(Per Yngve Ohlin), Swedish singer of the band Mayhem (d. 1991).
1969: Roy Jones Junior, American boxer.
1969: Cruz Pérez Cuéllar, Mexican politician.
1970: Garth Ennis , Irish cartoonist.
1971: Sergi Bruguera , Spanish tennis player.
1971: Francisco Pérez-Bannen, Chilean actor
1971: Armando Ribeiro, Spanish footballer.
1974: Mattias Johnson , Swedish footballer.
1974: Lisa M, Puerto Rican singer.
1974: Àngel Llàcer, Spanish actor, showman and presenter.
1974: Kate Moss, British model.
1974: Juan Jacinto Muñoz Rengel, Spanish writer.
1974: Monica Garcia Gomez, Spanish anesthesiologist and politician.
1975: Joe Fernández , Argentine astrologer, singer-songwriter, businessman and writer.
1977: Jeff Foster , American basketball player.
1977: Ariel Zeevi, Israeli judoka.
1978: Manskee , Filipino singer-songwriter.
1978: Koldo Gil, Spanish cyclist.
1979: Aaliyah , American R&B singer , dancer, model, and actress (d. 2001).
1979: Mark Anthony Fernández, Filipino actor.
1979: Erik Korchagin, Russian footballer.
1980: Seydou Keita , Malian footballer.
1980: Lin-Manuel Miranda, American composer and actor.
1980: Albert Pujols, Dominican baseball player.
1980: Michelle Wild, Hungarian actress.
1981: Aruna , American singer-songwriter.
1981: David Garcia de la Cruz, Spanish footballer.
1981: Nick Valensi, American guitarist of the band The Strokes.
1981: Bobby Zamora, British footballer.
1982: Jonathan Fabbro , Argentine footballer.
1983: Emanuel Pogatetz , Austrian footballer.
1983: Andriy Rusol, Ukrainian footballer.
1984: Stephan Lichtsteiner , Swiss footballer.
1985: Julio Barroso , Argentine footballer.
1985: Víctor Drija, Venezuelan actor, singer and dancer.
1985: Pablo Zabaleta, Argentine footballer.
1986: Paula Pareto , Argentine judoka.
1986: Gustavo Rodas, Argentine footballer.
1986: Milan Škoda, Czech footballer.
1986: Reto Ziegler, Swiss footballer.
1987: Angel Karamoy , Indonesian singer.
1987: Greivis Vásquez, Venezuelan basketball player.
1988: Nicklas Bendtner , Danish footballer.
1988: FKA twigs, British singer.
1989: Agustín Laje , Argentine essayist, political scientist and neo-Nazi lecturer.
1992: Pablo Corral , Chilean footballer.
1993: WRS , Romanian singer known for Eurovision Song Contest 2022.
1996: Enzo Copetti , Argentine soccer player.
1996: Zhou Qi, Chinese basketball player.
1996: Jennie, South Korean rapper and singer, member of the group Blackpink .
1997: Pau Torres , Spanish footballer.
1998: Seungkwan , South Korean singer, member of the group SEVENTEEN .
1998: Iona Fyfe, British-Scottish singer.

Deaths

309: Marcellus I , Catholic pope between 308 and 309 (b. ?).
399: Nintoku , 16th Japanese emperor (b. 313).
1391: Muhammad V of Granada , Sultan of Granada (b. 1339).
1606: Baltasar del Alcázar , Spanish poet (b. 1530).
1710: Higashiyama , 113th Japanese emperor (b. 1675).
1794– Edward Gibbon , British historian (b. 1737).
1809: John Moore , British general (b. 1761).
1846: José María Calatrava , Spanish politician and jurist (b. 1781).
1879: Lorenzo Salvi , Italian tenor (b. 1810).
1883: Antonio Lopez y Lopez , Spanish shipowner (b. 1817).
1884: Manuel González del Valle , Cuban intellectual, disciple of Félix Varela at the San Carlos seminary.
1885: Edmond About , French writer (b. 1828).
1891: Léo Delibes , French composer (b. 1836).
1901: Arnold Böcklin , Swiss painter (b. 1827).
1916: Lindor Pérez Gacitúa , Chilean military officer (b. 1854).
1919: Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves , Brazilian politician (b. 1848).
1934: Rubén Martínez Villena , prominent intellectual and communist leader.
1938– Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay , Indian Bengali-language novelist (b. 1876).
1942: Carole Lombard , American actress (b. 1908).
1950: Gustav Krupp , German industrialist and financier (b. 1870).
1957: Arturo Toscanini , Italian conductor (b. 1867).
1958: Sofía Casanova , journalist, poet and novelist, the first Spanish permanent correspondent in a foreign country and war correspondent (b. 1851)
1959: Eduardo Braun-Menéndez , Argentine physiologist (b. 1903).
1962: Emilio Madero , Mexican military officer (b. 1880).
1967: Robert J. Van de Graaff , American physicist (b. 1901).
1969: Vernon Duke , American singer (b. 1903).
1970: Francisco Cossío , Spanish painter (b. 1898).
1971: Philippe Thijs , Belgian cyclist (b. 1890).
1972: Gregorio Modrego , Spanish priest (b. 1890).
1973: Nellie Yu Roung Ling , Chinese dancer (b. 1889).
1979: Ted Cassidy , American actor (b. 1932).
1980: Benjamin Palencia , Spanish painter (b. 1894).
1981: Bernard Lee , British actor (b. 1908).
1982: Ramón J. Sender , Spanish writer (b. 1901).
1986: Jean Cassou , French writer and Hispanist (b. 1897).
1987: María Dhialma Tiberti , Argentine writer (b. 1928).
1993: Glenn Corbett , American actor (b. 1933).
1993: Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Icelandic weightlifter (b. 1960).
2001: Laurent-Désiré Kabila , Congolese guerrilla, politician and president from 1997 to 2001 (b. 1939).
2002: Alfonso del Real , Spanish actor (b. 1916).
2004: Melchor Ángel Posse , Argentine physician and politician (b. 1932).
2005: Agustín González , Spanish actor (b. 1930).
2007: Bo Yibo , Chinese politician (b. 1908).
2007: Rudolf August Oetker, German businessman (b. 1917).
2008: Pierre Lambert , French politician (b. 1920).
2009: Andrew Wyeth , American artist (b. 1917).
2011: Alcides Silveira , Uruguayan footballer (b. 1938).
2011: Augusto Algueró , Spanish conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1934). ^[1]
2012: Juan Carlos Pérez López , Spanish footballer (b. 1945).
2012: Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichordist, musicologist and conductor (b. 1928).
2013: Noé Hernández , Mexican race walker and Olympic medalist (b. 1978). ^[2]
2014: Russell Johnson , American actor (b. 1924).
2017: Gene Cernan , American aeronautical engineer, NASA astronaut , fighter pilot, and naval aviator, last person to walk on the Moon (b. 1934).
2018: Jo Jo White , American basketball player (b. 1946).
2019: John Bogle , American investor, business magnate, and philanthropist (b. 1929).
2020: Efraín Sánchez , Colombian footballer and coach, known as El Caimán (The Caiman). (b. 1926).
2021: Phil Spector , American musician and producer (b. 1939).
2022: Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta , Malian politician, President of Mali from 2013 to 2020 (b. 1945).

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