# 16 Januar

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| December | **Days in Januar** | Februar |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |

The **16t o Januar** is the 16t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 349 days ti come (350 in lowp years).

## Events

2003: Space Shuttle Columbia on final lift-off
* 1219 - A North Sea fluid kills 36,000 fowk.
* 1362 - A North Sea storm tide destroys the German toun o Rungholt.
* 1547 - Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar o Roushie.
* 1556 - Philip II o Spain becomes Keeng.
* 1707 - The Scots Pairliament ratifies the Act o Union creatin the Kinrick o Great Breetain.
* 1777 - Vermont declares itself separate frae New York.
* 1862 - The Hartley Colliery Disaster in Northumberland kills 204 miners.
* 1909 - Ernest Shackleton's expedeetion finds the Magnetic Sooth Pole.
* 1920 - The League o Naitions holds its first council meetin in Paris.
* 1945 - Adolf Hitler moves tae the Führerbunker.
* 1979 - The last Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, flees Iran.
* 2001 - In the Democratic Republic o the Congo, Preses Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinatit.
* 2003 - The Space Shuttle Columbia leaves on its final mission. It explodes on re-entry on 1 Februar.
* 2006 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf becomes Preses o Liberie.
* 2007 - A bomb attack on a varsity in Baghdad kills 65 fowk.
* 2016 - A terrorist attack in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, kills 28 fowk.
* 2017 - Northren Ireland's pouer-sharin govrenment collapses efter a scandal ower a renewable heat initiative. Elections are set for 2 Mairch.
* 2019 - Breetish Prime Meenister Theresa May wins a vote o confidence in her govrenment, bi 325 votes tae 306, a day efter bein heavily defeatit on her Brexit deal.

## Births

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* 1821 - John C. Breckinridge, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1875)
* 1874 - Robert W. Service, Breetish-Canadian poet (d. 1958)
* 1901 - Fulgencio Batista, Preses o Cuba (d. 1973)
* 1902 - Eric Liddell, Scots runner (d. 1945)
* 1923 - Jock Govan, Scots fitbawer (d. 1999)
* 1931 - Johannes Rau, Preses o Germany (d. 2006)
* 1932 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist, primatologist an anthropologist (d. 1985)
* 1933 - Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)
* 1937 - Francis George, American cairdinal (d. 2015)
* 1940 - Franz Müntefering, German politeecian
* 1948 - John Carpenter, American film director
* 1948 - Gregor Gysi, German politeecian
* 1956 − Mark Burton, New Zealand politeecian
* 1957 − Paul Holmes, Inglis politeecian
* 1979 - Aaliyah, American sangster, dancer, actress an model (d. 2001)
* 1983 - Derek Riordan, Scots fitbawer
* 1984 - Craig Beattie, Scots fitbawer
* 1984 - Stephan Lichtsteiner, Swiss fitbawer
* 1985 - Pablo Zabaleta, Argentine fitbawer
* 1988 - Nicklas Bendtner, Dens fitbawer
* 1989 - Paul Sweeney, Scots politeecian
* 1996 - Bradley Neil, Scots gowfer

## Daiths

* 1595 - Murad III, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1546)
* 1942 - Carole Lombard, American actress an sangster (b. 1908)
* 1957 - Arturo Toscanini, Italian cellist an conductor (b. 1867)
* 1962 - James Wordie, Scots polar splorer an geologist (b. 1889)
* 2001 - Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Congolese Preses (b. 1939)
* 2014 - Russell Johnson, American actor (b. 1924)
* 2017 - Eugene Cernan, American astronaut (b. 1934)

## Halidays

* Naitional Releegious Freedom Day (Unitit States)
* Teacher's Day (Myanmar an Thailand)