16 Januar

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 
 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 
 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)

Category:Days o the year
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