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Day Of The Week: January 16

What day of the week?

January 16, 2024 is the 16th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 350 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Tuesday.

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

  • 1492 –
    The first grammar of the Spanish language is presented to Queen Isabella I.
  • 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.
  • 1707 –
    The Scottish Parliament ratifies the Act of Union, paving the way for the creation of Great Britain.
  • 1786 –
    The Commonwealth of Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
  • 1909 –
    Ernest Shackleton’s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
  • 1920 –
    The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris.
  • 1942 –
    Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2006 –
    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia’s new president. She becomes Africa’s first female elected head of state.

Who were born on January 16?

  • 1093 –
    Isaac Komnenos, son of Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (d. after 1152)
  • 1501 –
    Anthony Denny, confidant of King Henry VIII of England (d. 1559)
  • 1916 –
    Philip Lucock, Australian politician and Presbyterian minister (d. 1996)
  • 1943 –
    Gavin Bryars, English composer and double bassist
  • 1944 –
    Gerd Klier, German footballer (d. 2011)
  • 1953 –
    Robert Jay Mathews, American neo-Nazi (d. 1984)
  • 1969 –
    Neil Back, England rugby player
  • 1970 –
    Ron Villone, American baseball player
  • 1972 –
    Salah Hissou, Moroccan long-distance runner
  • 1980 –
    Albert Pujols, Dominican-born baseball player

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