All Events

Historical Events on January 16

  • Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1780)

    1780

    American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.

  • Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

    1786

    Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.

  • American Samoa

    1900

    The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.

  • Führerbunker

    1945

    Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.

  • Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

    1979

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

  • Gulf War

    1991

    Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.

  • Chapultepec Peace Accords

    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.

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    2001

    US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War.

  • Osama bin Laden

    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.

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Famous Birthdays on January 16

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Famous Deaths on January 16

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