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Day Of The Week: January 16
January 16, 2025 is the 16th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 349 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Capricorn is your zodiac sign. Garnet is your modern birthstone. Emerald is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: January 16
- 1120 –The Council of Nablus is held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- 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.
- 1809 –Peninsular War: The British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.
- 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.
- 1945 –Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
- 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.
- 1979 –The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.
- 1986 –First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.
- 1992 –El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City ending the 12-year Salvadoran civil war that claimed at least 75,000.
Who were born on January 16?
- 1409 –René I of Naples (d. 1480)
- 1749 –Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist (d. 1803)
- 1872 –Henri Busser, French composer (d. 1973)
- 1874 –Robert W. Service, Canadian poet (d. 1958)
- 1918 –Clem Jones, Australian Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2007)
- 1933 –Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)
- 1947 –Magdalen Nabb, British author (d. 2007)
- 1961 –Paul Raven, English musician (Killing Joke) (d. 2007)
- 1963 –James May, English television presenter
- 1988 –Nicklas Bendtner, Danish footballer
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