16 January
Notable Births
Andrew Nembhard
b. 2000
Canadian basketball player (born 2000)
Seungkwan
b. 1998
South Korean singer (born 1998)
Jennie (singer)
b. 1996
South Korean singer (born 1996)
Zhou Qi
b. 1996
Chinese basketball player (born 1996)
Jonathan Allen
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Mikaela Turik
b. 1995
Canadian womens cricketer (born 1995)
Tre'Davious White
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Mikko Lehtonen (ice hockey, born 1994)
b. 1994
Finnish ice hockey player (born 1994)
Hannes Anier
b. 1993
Estonian footballer (born 1993)
Amandine Hesse
b. 1993
French tennis player (born 1993)
Sungjin
b. 1993
South Korean singer (born 1993)
Jason Zucker
b. 1992
American ice hockey player (born 1992)
Matt Duchene
b. 1991
Canadian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Dennis Kelly (American football)
b. 1990
American football player (born 1990)
Nicklas Bendtner
b. 1988
Danish footballer (born 1988)
Jorge Torres Nilo
b. 1988
Mexican footballer (born 1988)
FKA Twigs
b. 1988
English singer, songwriter, and dancer (born 1988)
Jake Epstein
b. 1987
Canadian actor and singer (born 1987)
Charlotte Henshaw
b. 1987
British Paralympic swimmer
Greivis Vásquez
b. 1987
Venezuelan basketball player and coach (born 1987)
Notable Deaths
David Lynch
d. 2025
American filmmaker (1946–2025)
Joan Plowright
d. 2025
British actress (1929–2025)
Bob Uecker
d. 2025
American baseball player and broadcaster (1934–2025)
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
d. 2022
President of Mali from 2013 to 2020
Pedro Trebbau
d. 2021
Venezuelan zoologist (1929–2021)
Phil Spector
d. 2021
American record producer and convicted murderer (1939–2021)
Christopher Tolkien
d. 2020
British book editor (1924–2020)
John C. Bogle
d. 2019
American investor and business magnate (1929–2019)
Lorna Doom
d. 2019
American musician (1958–2019)
Chris Wilson (Australian musician)
d. 2019
Australian musician (1956–2019)
Oliver Ivanović
d. 2018
Kosovo Serb politician
Gene Cernan
d. 2017
American astronaut and lunar explorer (1934–2017)
Joannis Avramidis
d. 2016
Greek-Austrian artist (1922–2016)
Ted Marchibroda
d. 2016
American football player and coach (1931–2016)
Miriam Akavia
d. 2015
Polish-born Israeli writer, translator and Holocaust survivor
Yao Beina
d. 2015
Chinese singer and songwriter (born 1981)
Ruth Duccini
d. 2014
American actress (1918–2014)
Dave Madden
d. 2014
Canadian-born American actor (1931–2014)
Hiroo Onoda
d. 2014
Imperial Japanese Army officer (1922–2014)
Wayne D. Anderson
d. 2013
American college basketball coach
On This Day in History
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2020
The first impeachment of Donald Trump formally moves into its trial phase in the United States Senate.
First impeachment of Donald Trump
2020
The United States Senate ratifies the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement as a replacement for NAFTA.
United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement
2018
Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve.
Myanmar
2017
Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 crashes into a residential area near Manas International Airport in Kyrgyzstan, killing 39 people.
Turkish Airlines Flight 6491
2016
Thirty-three out of 126 freed hostages are injured and 23 killed in terrorist attacks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.
2016 Ouagadougou attacks
2012
The Mali War begins when Tuareg militias start fighting the Malian government for independence.
Mali War
2011
Syrian civil war: The Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) is established with the stated goal of re-organizing Syria along the lines of democratic confederalism.
Syrian civil war
2006
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
2003
The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
Space Shuttle Columbia
2002
War in Afghanistan: 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.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
2001
Second Congo War: Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards in Kinshasa.
Second Congo War
2001
US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
Bill Clinton
1998
In Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa, Guatemala, thirteen American students on a school trip are attacked and robbed at gunpoint; five were raped.
Santa Lucía Cotzumalguapa
1995
An avalanche hits the Icelandic village Súðavík, destroying 25 homes and burying 26 people, 14 of whom died.
1995 Súðavík avalanche
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.
El Salvador
1991
Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.
Iraq
1984
A radiation detector at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, United States, detects radioactivity after a truck carrying rebar accidentally passed through the laboratory's area, revealing a contamination incident that occurred in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, the previous month.
Particle detector
1983
Turkish Airlines Flight 158 crashes at Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Ankara, Turkey, killing 47 and injuring 20.
Turkish Airlines Flight 158
1979
Iranian Revolution: The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
Iranian Revolution
1969
Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
Czechs