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The following events took place on January 16. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 50 events. Showing 31 - 50.

• 1924

  Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time.
• 1938

  Benny Goodman, and his band, performed in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City
• 1939

  The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England.
• 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 Führerbunker.
• 1964

  Hello, Dolly! (musical) starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances.
• 1969

  Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets’ crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
• 1969

  Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
• 1970

  Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects.
• 1979

  The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
• 1986

  First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
• 1991

  The Coalition Forces go 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, 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.
• 2002

  The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, 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.
• 2005

  Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world
• 2006

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia’s new president. She becomes Africa’s first female elected head of state.
• 2013

  An estimated 41 international workers are taken hostage in an attack in the town of In Aménas, Algeria.

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