January 16th
The January 16th is the 16th Jour of the Année of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 349 days before the end of the year.
Events
Before 1
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-27: The Roman Sénat decrees with Octave the nickname of Auguste.
1 with 1900
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929: Abd Al-Rahman III becomes Caliph of Cordoue.
- 1235 : Marriage of the duke of Brittany Jean Ier the Russet-red with White of Champagne, girl of the Count de Champagne Thibaut IV Chansonnier.
- 1547 : Ivan IV becomes Tsar of all the Russia S.
- 1556:
- Tired and sick, Charles Quint abdicates initially, the October 25th 1555, as a sovereign of the Burgundian countries and introduces his/her son Philippe II to the General states joined together with Brussels. January 16th, it is under king d' Espagne that it signs the act of abdication in favor of his son. The crown of Germany will return to his/her brother Ferdinand.
- Gigantic Earthquake in the China, worst of all times, it would have made between eight hundred and thousand and one million victims with (Chen-if, Kansou, Chan-if).
- 1581 : The English Parlement decides severe measurements against the Catholiques.
- 1598 : Boris Godounov is elected tsar of Russia unanimously by the Zemski sobor (General states), composed of five hundred deputies, prelates, boyards, middle-class man and officers of which it had required the meeting.
- 1646 : The French Army occupies the Belgian city of Courtrai.
- 1666 : The France, allied of the Holland, declares the war with the England.
- 1756 : The England gives up Austrian alliance and turns to the Prussia, against which it had fought during the War of succession of Austria.
- 1761 : Capitulation of Lally-Tollendal to Pondichéry.
- 1778 : The France recognizes the independence of the the United States.
- 1800 : First with the Feydeau Theater with Paris of the Op3era Comique in three acts Two the , days or Water carrier Luigi Cherubini.
- 1809 : The Spain and the Great Britain are appropriate not to conclude from peace separated with Napoleon.
- 1815 : The Brazil, Portuguese colony, becomes an autonomous kingdom.
- 1824 : Ottoman Empire: The sultan charges Muhammad Ali with pacifying the Morée.
- 1900 : Creation of the Coupe Davis.
20th century
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1906 : Beginning of the conference of Algeciras on the Morocco.
- 1917 : In a secret telegram, which will be decoded by the services of the navy British and transmitted to the US government, the Germany proposes an alliance with the Mexico in the possibility of an entry in war of the the United States.
- 1919 : End of the “bloody week” with Buenos Aires.
- 1920:
- the American Sénat is opposed to adhesion the United States with SDN.
- with the the United States, the leagues of temperance triumph with the coming into effect over the Prohibition over the alcohol, which will make also the fortune of the organized crime.
- 1925 : Leon Trotski is isolated presidency of the council of the Russian revolution.
- 1936 : Albert Fish was carried out with the electric chair.
- 1943 : Hitler orders the destruction of the old workings of Marseilles.
- 1944 : The general Dwight Eisenhower arrives at London to take the command of the allied forces of the unloading.
- 1945 : in France, Nationalization of Renault.
- 1947 :
- Vincent Auriol is elected president of the Republic (first president of the fourth Republic) of 1947 with 1953.
- the Gloster Meteor MK 4 British is the fastest jet of the world.
- 1954 : Beginning of the mandate of president of the Republic of Rene Coty.
- 1956 : Independence of the Egypt.
- 1958 : Lester Bowles Pearson becomes chief of the Liberal party of the Canada.
- 1964 : The Arab representatives of 13 countries, joined together with the Cairo, decide creation of a military command in order to reinforce their position vis-a-vis Israel.
- 1966 : The general Aguiyi Ironsi seizes the power with the Nigeria after having announced the failure of a takeover by force.
- 1969:
- on television, De Gaulle promises self-determination with the Algerians.
- Two Soviet spaceships, Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 , make a success of the first mooring in Orbite.
- Jan Palach immole by fire with Prague.
- 1970 : The Canada announces its conversion with the metric system.
- 1976 : Shortage of Potatoes and beginning of panic in Belgium.
- 1979 : The Chah leaves the Iran after the nomination by the Parliament of a new civil government.
- 1983 : Margaret Thatcher announces that missiles '' Cruise '' will be put out of battery in Great Britain in the current of the year, in spite of the increasing reserves of the opinion.
- 1986 : Official reception of the professor Jean Hamburger (1909-1992) with the French Academy.
- 1987 : Hu Yaobang resigns of the direction of the Chinese Communist party, accepting the responsibility for political errors made following student's agitation.
- 1990 : The Soviet Union makes its nationality Soviet to Rostropovitch.
- 1991 : In Iraq, the operation Tempête of the desert begins.
- 1992 :
- the government of the El Salvador and the representatives of the guerilla sign with Mexico City fine peace agreement putting at twelve years of a civil war which made 75.000 died and ruined the country.
- Mohammed Boudiaf returns in Algérie after twenty-seven years of exile to become president; he will be assassinated in next June.
- 1994 : Entry according to the first president of the autonomous Republic of Ossétie of North, Ahsarbek Galazov.
- 1996 : One week after the death of François Mitterrand, his former personal doctor, Dr. Claude Gubler, affirms in one entitled book the Great Secrecy , that the former president of the Republic knew himself reached of a Cancer since November 1981 and that it was not any more in a position to take up his duties since November 1994. The Court of Bankruptcy of Paris will order, the 18, the prohibition of the diffusion of this book.
- 1997 : Ennis Cosby, the 27 year old son of the actor Bill Cosby, is found died in its car on a highway close to Santa Monica, in California. It was killed out of a ball in the head after being itself stopped to repair a puncture.
- 1998 :
- with Ankara, dissolution of the islamist party Refah Partisi.
- In a storm, with broad of Saint-Pierre-and-Miquelon, the Vraquier Flare breaks into two and blackjacks marins.périssent
- 1999:
- In Belgium, in a private clinic of Leuwen, died of two babies. Because of an error of labelling, they received Chlorure of potassium in the place of the Glucose envisaged.
- Taken refuge in Italy, the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan share for an unknown exile.
- Quarantecinq Kosovan civilians is massacred in the village albanophone Racak (south-western of the Serb province).
- 2000 : With the second turn, Ricardo Lagos is elected president of the Chile in front of Joaquín Lavín.
21e century
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2001 :
- the Congolese president Laurent-Desired Kabila is assassinated with the presidential palace of Kinshasa. His/her son, Joseph Kabila, will succeed the January 26th to him.
- an Ecuadorian tanker Jessica transporting more than nine thousand tons of Fioul fails broad of the archipelago of the Galapagos, populated marine mammals. More than seven hundred tons of Fioul will flow in broad island but will be carried by the winds and currents towards the broad one.
- 2002 :
- the final report on the accident of the Harmony occurred the July 25th 2000 with Gonesse (Val-d'Oise) by the Office Investigation-Accidents (BEA), confirms that the presence of a metal plate lost by a plane five minutes earlier on the track is at the origin of the air crash which made 113 died.
- the Safety advice of the United Nations adopts a resolution requiring a international Embargo on the weapons and a prohibition to travel to the individuals or groups associated with Usama Bin Laden, its network, the Talibans, and that their financial goods are blocked.
- 2003 : The inspectors in disarmament of the the United Nations discover eleven empty chemical warheads in Iraq.
- 2004 :
- Michael Jackson, accused in December for sexual assaults on minor, pleads not culprit in front of the court of Santa Maria (California).
- the room of the Representatives of the Morocco unanimously adopts the law on the reform of the code of the family ( Mouadawana ) which aims at devoting “the legal equality between the man and the woman”.
- the patriarch of Constantinople proceeds to the canonization of five Russian saints having lived in France in first half of the 20th century: Alexis of Ugine († 1934) and four martyrs died in deportation. They are the Nouveaux Russian saints of France.
- 2005 :
- Yann Wehrling succeeds Gilles Lemaire at the post of national secretary of the Greens.
- Rumanian 67 years gives rise to a little girl thanks to a fecundation '' in vitro ''.
Births
- 1675 : Louis de Rouvroy, duke of Saint-Simon, French writer, celebrates for his Mémoires . († March 2nd 1755).
- 1716 : Gustav Seidel, Danish printer
- 1756: Martin Michel Charles Gaudin, duke of Gaète, Politician French, Minister for Finance of the Consulate and the Empire. († November 5th 1841).
- 1795 : Carl Christian Rafn, Danish archeologist († October 20th 1864)
- 1801: Thomas Clausen, mathematician Danish.
- 1822 : Henri of Orleans, duke of Aumale, academician French († May 7th 1897).
- 1849 : Eugene Career, writer French († 1906)
- 1858: Henri Gourgouillon, French sculptor († 1902)
- 1872: Henri Busser, type-setter and French leader. († December 30th 1973)
- 1873: Boyd Alexander, British officer , explorer and ornithologist († April 2nd 1910)
- 1877: Thomas Hakon Grönwall, mathematician Swedish
- 1880: Paulette Brupbacher Raygrodski, lady doctor, militant of the women's rights Swiss
- 1881: Jean Bourguer, anarchistic militant, antimilitarist, anticlerical and revolutionary trade unionist French
- 1884: Jules Supervielle, writer French († May 17th 1960)
- 1901: Fulgencio Batista, dictator Cuba in († August 6th 1973)
- 1903: Pierre-Henri Simon, academician French († 1972)
- 1906: François Coulet, politician French (? 1984)
- 1909: Ethel Merman, American actress. († February 15th 1984)
- 1911: Roger Lapébie, cyclist French († October 12th 1996)
- 1917
- Buddy To ballast, actor states-unien († 2002)
- Justin Ahomadegbé-Tomêtin, president of Benign the (° March 8th 2002)
- 1918: Stirling Silliphant, scenario writer states-unien († 1996)
- 1919: Roger Nicolas, humorist French († 1977)
- 1920: William Werner Boone, mathematician states-unien
- 1921: Pierre Sipriot, journalist French
- 1922: Jean Gaven, actor French
- 1924: Katy Jurado, Mexican actress († 2002)
- 1925: Anne-Marie Carrière, French actress († December 29th 2006)
- 1929: Jean Boissonnat, journalist French
- 1930: Micheline Luccioni, French actress († 1992)
- 1931: Johannes Rau, German politician
- 1932
- Diane Fossey, zoologist states-unienne († December 26th 1985)
- Alain Jessua, realizer, producer and scenario writer French.
- 1933 : Susan Sontag, writer states-unienne († December 28th 2004)
- 1934:
- Marcel-Pierre Cléach, politician French.
- Marilyn Horne, American mezzo-soprano.
- 1938 : Jean-Claude Narcy, journalist French
- 1939: Jean Van Hamme, Belgian scenario writer of cartoon
- 1942:
- Richard Bohringer, actor French
- Nicole Fontaine, political woman French
- 1943:
- Gavin Bryars, type-setter and British double bass player .
- Brian Ferneyhough, British type-setter .
- 1944 : Marilu Tolo, actress Italy
- 1946: Michael L. Coats, American astronaut
- 1947: Juliet Berto, director of Theater and French director of Cinema († 1990)
- 1948
- John Carpenter, realizer states-unien
- Anatoly Solovyev, Russian cosmonaut
- 1951: Wilfried Huismann, German realizer
- 1952
- L. Blaine Hammond, American astronaut
- Piercarlo Ghinzani, pilot Italy N
- 1955: Jerry Mr. Linenger, American astronaut
- 1956: Paris Barclay, realizer states-unien
- 1959: Sade, British singer
- 1960: Tellier Denis, father, France
- 1961
- Dirk Of Wolf, Belgian cyclist
- Nicolas Miguet, businessman French
- 1971: Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis player
- 1974: Kate Moss, British mannequin
- 1976: Lysed Ansaldi, singer (Paris)
- 1979: Aaliyah Dana Haughton, singer states-unienne († August 25th 2001)
Death
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1547 : Johannes Schöner, astronomer and German cartographer (° January 16th 1477)
- 1659: Charles Annibal Fabrot, French lawyer (° September 15th 1580)
- 1710: Higashiyama, Emperor of Japan (° October 21st 1675)
- 1747: Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (° September 22nd 1680)
- 1794: Edward Gibbon, British historian (° April 27th 1737)
- 1806: William Pitt the Young person, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (° May 28th 1759)
- 1854: Charles Gaudichaud-Bowsprit, French botanist (° September 4th 1789)
- 1856: Thaddeus William Harris, naturalist states-unien (° November 12th 1795)
- 1885: Edmond Butt, French writer and academician (° February 14th 1828)
- 1891: Léo Delibes, French type-setter (° February 21st 1836)
- 1919: Francisco of Paula Rodrigues Alves, President of Brazil (° July 7th 1848)
- 1936: Albert Fish, Serial killer states-unien (° May 19th 1870)
- 1942: Carole Lombard, American actress (° October 6th 1909)
- 1957: Arturo Toscanini, Italian leader (° March 25th 1867)
- 1962: Ivan Meštrović, Croatian sculptor (° August 15th 1883)
- 1967: Robert VAN DE GRAAFF, nuclear physicist states-unien (° December 20th 1901)
- 1969: Jan Palach, Czechoslovakian student which immole in public in sign of protest against the Russian invasion (° August 11th 1948)
- 1981: Bernard Lee, British actor (° January 10th 1908)
- 1984: Kenneth Arnold, American aviator (° March 29th 1915)
- 1989: Pierre Boileau, French writer (° April 28th 1906)
- 1995: Eric Mottram, British poet (° 1924)
- 2001: Laurent-Desired Kabila, revolutionist and statesman Congolese (° November 27th 1939)
- 2001: Jules Vuillemin French philosopher and author
- 2002: Jean Elleinstein, French historian
- 2004: Kalevi Sorsa, Finnish political personality (° January 21st 1930)
Celebrations
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Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day
- Marcel I {{er}}, Pope
- Honorat of Arles († 430), abbot of Lérins then archbishop of Arles.
See too
- January 16th in sport
- January 16th in the railroads
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