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).
| 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 | ||
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)
| Wiki Commons haes media relatit tae 16 January. |
This article uses material from the Wikipedia Scots article 16 Januar, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available unner CC BY-SA 4.0 unless itherwise notit. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
®Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wiki Foundation, Inc. Wiki Scots (DUHOCTRUNGQUOC.VN) is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wiki Foundation.