Today in History
16 January
Carole Lombard
Ivan IV the Terrible
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| 1219 Floods in Northern Netherlands after storm, 1,000s killed | ||
| 1325 Laure de Noves, beloved of Petrarch, marries Hugues de Sade | ||
| 1493 Columbus returns to Spain on his 1st trip | ||
| 1531 English Reformation parliament's 2nd sitting | ||
| 1547 Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself 1st tsar of Moscow | ||
| 1556 Emperor Karel appoints his son Philip II, king of Spain | ||
| 1581 English parliament passes laws against Catholicism | ||
| 1756 England & Prussia sign Treaty of Westminster | ||
| 1759 British Museum opens in London | ||
| 1776 Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks |
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| 1777 Vermont declares independence from NY | ||
| 1795 French army under Pichegru occupies Utrecht Neth | ||
| 1819 Godert baron van der de Capellen becomes governor of Dutch-Indies | ||
| 1832 Charles Darwin lands at San Tiago, Cape Verde | ||
| 1868 Refrigerator car patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit | ||
| 1873 Boyd Alexander, English explorer was born | ||
| 1909 British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole | ||
| 1909 David, Mawson & Mackay reach south magnetic pole | ||
| 1913 British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland | ||
| 1914 Writer Maksim Gorki returns to Russia | ||
| 1919 Missouri, Nebraska and Wyoming ratified Prohibition, which went into effect in 1920. | ||
| 1920 1st assembly of League of Nations (Paris) | ||
| 1920 Georgia declares independence | ||
| 1925 Leon Trotsky dismissed as CEO of Russian Revolution Military Council |
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| 1941 US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor | ||
| 1941 War Dept forms 1st Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets | ||
| 1942 Actress Carole Lombard was killed in a plane crash in Nevada while on a trip to sell war bonds. | ||
| 1943 1st US air raid on Ambon | ||
| 1943 German 2nd SS-Pantzer division evacuates Charkow | ||
| 1943 Red Army recaptures Pitomnik airport at Stalingrad | ||
| 1944 Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied Invasion Force in London, England. | ||
| 1945 Scottish 52nd land division/1st Commando brigade-assault at Heinsberg | ||
| 1945 US 1st & 3rd army meet at Houffalise | ||
| 1948 35 Haganah members are ambushed & killed in Gush Etzyon | Carole Lombard |
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| 1950 Belgium, Luxembourg & Netherlands recognize Israel | ||
| 1951 World's largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville Tx, to 134th St, NYC) | ||
| 1956 Egyptian pres Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine | ||
| 1966 Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center | ||
| 1969 Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space | ||
| 1970 Col Kadhaffi becomes premier of Libya |
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| 1973 USSR's Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of Moon | ||
| 1979 Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran flees Iran for Egypt | ||
| 1986 Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam | ||
| 1988 CBS sports commentator Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder was fired for making what were considered racist remarks. | ||
| 1989 Police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague | ||
| 1991 The White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm to force Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. | ||
| 1997 Ennis Cosby, the son of comedian Bill Cosby, was shot to death while changing a flat tire in Los Angeles, California. Michael Markhasev was convicted in the killing. | ||
| 1997 Two bombs exploded at an Atlanta, Georgia, building where abortions were performed. Six people suffered injuries. | Ivan IV the Terrible |
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| 1998 NASA said space pioneer John Glenn would take part in a space shuttle flight that year, more than 35 years after he first flew into space. | ||