January 16 in History

Historical Events on January 16

1780 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.

1786 Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.

1847 John C. Frémont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.

1945 Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.

1979 The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.

1991 Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.

1992 El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.

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.

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Famous Birthdays on January 16

1935 A. J. Foyt

1969 Roy Jones Jr.

1979 Aaliyah

1980 Albert Pujols

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Famous Deaths on January 16

1942 Carole Lombard

1957 Arturo Toscanini

2007 Benny Parsons

2010 Jyoti Basu

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