WillDekkard
01-16-2010, 04:19 AM
Hear are some notable events that happened on This Date in History
- January 16th
* 27 BC The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate.
* 550 Gothic War (535552): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
* 1120 The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
* 1362 A storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand.
* 1412 The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
* 1492 The first grammar of the Spanish language, is presented to Queen Isabella I.
* 1547 Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
* 1556 Philip II becomes King of Spain.
* 1572 Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
* 1581 The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
* 1605 The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid.[citation needed]
* 1707 The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
* 1761 The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
* 1777 Vermont declares its independence from New York.
* 1780 American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
* 1809 Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruρa.
* 1847 John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
* 1878 Russo-Turkish War (18771878) Battle of Plovdiv: Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
* 1883 The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
* 1896 Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
* 1900 The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
* 1909 Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
* 1919 Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
* 1942 Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
* 1945 Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Fόhrerbunker.
* 1956 President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
* 1968 The Youth International Party is founded.
* 1969 Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
* 1970 Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
* 1979 The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.
* 1986 First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
* 1991 The United States goes to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
* 1992 El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City ending a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75,000.
* 2001 The First surviving wikipedia edit is made: UuU
* 2001 Congolese President Laurent-Dιsirι 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.
* 2002 The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
* 2003 The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
* 2006 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
- January 16th
* 27 BC The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate.
* 550 Gothic War (535552): The Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer Rome after a long siege, by bribing the Isaurian garrison.
* 1120 The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
* 1362 A storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand.
* 1412 The Medici family is appointed official banker of the Papacy.
* 1492 The first grammar of the Spanish language, is presented to Queen Isabella I.
* 1547 Ivan IV of Russia aka Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
* 1556 Philip II becomes King of Spain.
* 1572 Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.
* 1581 The English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism.
* 1605 The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid.[citation needed]
* 1707 The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
* 1761 The British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
* 1777 Vermont declares its independence from New York.
* 1780 American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
* 1809 Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruρa.
* 1847 John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.
* 1878 Russo-Turkish War (18771878) Battle of Plovdiv: Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
* 1883 The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed.
* 1896 Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire.
* 1900 The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
* 1909 Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
* 1919 Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
* 1942 Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
* 1945 Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Fόhrerbunker.
* 1956 President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
* 1968 The Youth International Party is founded.
* 1969 Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
* 1970 Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
* 1979 The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.
* 1986 First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
* 1991 The United States goes to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
* 1992 El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City ending a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75,000.
* 2001 The First surviving wikipedia edit is made: UuU
* 2001 Congolese President Laurent-Dιsirι 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.
* 2002 The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
* 2003 The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
* 2006 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.