Today in History : January 16
1547 : Ivan IV crowns himself the new Czar of Russia in Assumption Cathedral in Moscow.
1786 : The Council of Virginia guarantees religious freedom.
1847 : John C. Fremont, the famed “Pathfinder” of Western exploration, is appointed governor of California.
1865 : General William T. Sherman begins a march through the Carolinas.
1900 : The U.S. Senate recognizes the Anglo-German Treaty of 1899 by which the UK renounced its rights to the Samoan Islands.
1909 : One of Ernest Shackleton‘s polar exploration teams reaches the Magnetic South Pole.
1914 : Maxim Gorky is authorized to return to Russia after an eight year exile for political dissidence.
1920 : The League of Nations holds its first meeting in Paris.
1920 : Allies lift the blockade on trade with Russia.
1939 : Franklin D. Roosevelt asks for an extension of the Social Security Act to include more women and children.
1940 : Hitler cancels an attack in the West due to bad weather and the capture of German attack plans in Belgium.
1942 : Japan’s advance into Burma begins.
1944 : Eisenhower assumes supreme command of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe.
1945 : The U.S. First and Third armies link up at Houffalize, effectively ending the Battle of the Bulge.
1956 : The Egyptian government makes Islam the state religion.
1965 : Eighteen are arrested in Mississippi for the murder of three civil rights workers.
1975 : The Irish Republican Army calls an end to a 25-day cease fire in Belfast.
1979 : The Shah leaves Iran.
1991 : The Persian Gulf War begins. The massive U.S.-led offensive against Iraq — Operation Desert Storm — ends on February 28, 1991, when President George Bush declares a cease-fire, and Iraq pledges to honor future coalition and U.N. peace terms.
Born on January 16
1757 : Samuel McIntire, architect of Salem, Massachusetts.
1749 : Vittorio Alfieri, Italian tragic poet (Cleopatra, Parigi shastigliata).
1821 : John C. Breckinridge, 14th U.S. Vice President, Confederate Secretary of War.
1909 : Ethel Merman, U.S. singer and actress, the “Queen of Broadway.”
1933 : Susan Sontag, American essayist and novelist (The Style of Radical Will, Illness as a Metaphor).
1547 : Ivan IV crowns himself the new Czar of Russia in Assumption Cathedral in Moscow.
1786 : The Council of Virginia guarantees religious freedom.
1847 : John C. Fremont, the famed “Pathfinder” of Western exploration, is appointed governor of California.
1865 : General William T. Sherman begins a march through the Carolinas.
1900 : The U.S. Senate recognizes the Anglo-German Treaty of 1899 by which the UK renounced its rights to the Samoan Islands.
1909 : One of Ernest Shackleton‘s polar exploration teams reaches the Magnetic South Pole.
1914 : Maxim Gorky is authorized to return to Russia after an eight year exile for political dissidence.
1920 : The League of Nations holds its first meeting in Paris.
1920 : Allies lift the blockade on trade with Russia.
1939 : Franklin D. Roosevelt asks for an extension of the Social Security Act to include more women and children.
1940 : Hitler cancels an attack in the West due to bad weather and the capture of German attack plans in Belgium.
1942 : Japan’s advance into Burma begins.
1944 : Eisenhower assumes supreme command of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe.
1945 : The U.S. First and Third armies link up at Houffalize, effectively ending the Battle of the Bulge.
1956 : The Egyptian government makes Islam the state religion.
1965 : Eighteen are arrested in Mississippi for the murder of three civil rights workers.
1975 : The Irish Republican Army calls an end to a 25-day cease fire in Belfast.
1979 : The Shah leaves Iran.
1991 : The Persian Gulf War begins. The massive U.S.-led offensive against Iraq — Operation Desert Storm — ends on February 28, 1991, when President George Bush declares a cease-fire, and Iraq pledges to honor future coalition and U.N. peace terms.
Born on January 16
1757 : Samuel McIntire, architect of Salem, Massachusetts.
1749 : Vittorio Alfieri, Italian tragic poet (Cleopatra, Parigi shastigliata).
1821 : John C. Breckinridge, 14th U.S. Vice President, Confederate Secretary of War.
1909 : Ethel Merman, U.S. singer and actress, the “Queen of Broadway.”
1933 : Susan Sontag, American essayist and novelist (The Style of Radical Will, Illness as a Metaphor).
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