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The 16t o Januar is the 16t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 349 days ti come (350 in lowp years).

Events

1219 - A North Sea fluid kills 36,000 fowk.
1362 - A North Sea storm tide destroys the German toun o Rungholt.
1547 - Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar o Roushie.
1556 - Philip II o Spain becomes Keeng.
1707 - The Scots Pairliament ratifies the Act o Union creatin the Kinrick o Great Breetain.
1777 - Vermont declares itself separate frae New York.
1862 - The Hartley Colliery Disaster in Northumberland kills 204 miners.
1909 - Ernest Shackleton's expedeetion finds the Magnetic Sooth Pole.
1920 - The League o Naitions holds its first council meetin in Paris.
1945 - Adolf Hitler moves tae the Führerbunker.
1979 - The last Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, flees Iran.
2001 - In the Democratic Republic o the Congo, Preses Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinatit.
2003 - The Space Shuttle Columbia leaves on its final mission. It explodes on re-entry on 1 Februar.
2006 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf becomes Preses o Liberie.
2007 - A bomb attack on a varsity in Baghdad kills 65 fowk.
2016 - A terrorist attack in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, kills 28 fowk.
2017 - Northren Ireland's pouer-sharin govrenment collapses efter a scandal ower a renewable heat initiative. Elections are set for 2 Mairch.
2019 - Breetish Prime Meenister Theresa May wins a vote o confidence in her govrenment, bi 325 votes tae 306, a day efter bein heavily defeatit on her Brexit deal.

1821 - John C. Breckinridge, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1875)
1874 - Robert W. Service, Breetish-Canadian poet (d. 1958)
1901 - Fulgencio Batista, Preses o Cuba (d. 1973)
1902 - Eric Liddell, Scots runner (d. 1945)
1923 - Jock Govan, Scots fitbawer (d. 1999)
1931 - Johannes Rau, Preses o Germany (d. 2006)
1932 - Dian Fossey, American zoologist, primatologist an anthropologist (d. 1985)
1933 - Susan Sontag, American writer (d. 2004)
1937 - Francis George, American cairdinal (d. 2015)
1940 - Franz Müntefering, German politeecian
1948 - John Carpenter, American film director
1948 - Gregor Gysi, German politeecian
1956 − Mark Burton, New Zealand politeecian
1957 − Paul Holmes, Inglis politeecian
1979 - Aaliyah, American sangster, dancer, actress an model (d. 2001)
1983 - Derek Riordan, Scots fitbawer
1984 - Craig Beattie, Scots fitbawer
1984 - Stephan Lichtsteiner, Swiss fitbawer
1985 - Pablo Zabaleta, Argentine fitbawer
1988 - Nicklas Bendtner, Dens fitbawer
1989 - Paul Sweeney, Scots politeecian
1996 - Bradley Neil, Scots gowfer