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Events on January 16

• 1362 During the Second Marcellus Flood, the Frisian town of Rungholt goes under, which more than 500 years later inspires Detlev von Liliencron to write his poem Trutz, blanke Hans. The first Halligen are formed.
• 1547 The 16-year-old Ivan IV becomes the first crowned tsar of Russia. The reign of the monarch, who would become known later and above all in the West as Ivan the Terrible, is initially marked by modernization.
• 1632 Rembrandt van Rijn is present at a lecture by the physician Nicolaes Tulp, during which the latter dissects the body of the street robber Adriaan Adriaanszoon. After this experience, the painting The Anatomy of Dr. Tulp is created.
• 1920 The 18th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, ratified exactly one year earlier by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, which prohibits the manufacture, sale, and transport of intoxicating liquors, goes into effect. Prohibition thereby begins in the United States.
• 1938 Benny Goodman gives a jazz concert with his orchestra at Carnegie Hall in New York City that becomes famous. Following the simultaneous radio broadcast, this style of music becomes a major success.
• 1945 During World War II, Adolf Hitler moves the Führer Headquarters within Berlin to the Führer Bunker, which had just been completed, because of the increasingly precarious situation.
• 1969 The student Jan Palach burns himself alive on Wenceslas Square in Prague in protest against the suppression of the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia.
• 1969 The two Soviet spacecraft, Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5, carry out the first docking maneuver in space. The two onboard engineers, Jewgeni Wassiljewitsch Chrunow and Alexei Stanislawowitsch Jelissejew, undertake a spacewalk and transfer from Soyuz 5 to Soyuz 4.
• 1972 The German Federal Ministry of the Interior decrees that the use of the designation “Miss” in federal authorities is to be discontinued. The title “Ms.” is to be used for every adult woman.
• 1979 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi leaves Iran in the course of the Islamic Revolution and goes into exile in Egypt.
• 1998 The German Bundestag passes the controversial amendment to Article 13 of the German Basic Law, which makes acoustic surveillance of residences possible for law-enforcement purposes.
• 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia launches into space on its final mission. Upon landing 16 days later, the space shuttle burns up in the atmosphere, killing the seven astronauts aboard.

Born on January 16

• 1853 André Michelin, French industrialist
• 1900 Edith Frank-Holländer, victim of the Holocaust, mother of Anne and Margot Frank
• 1901 Fulgencio Batista, Cuban president and dictator
• 1910 Walter Schellenberg, German SS and police general, head of the joint intelligence services of the SD and Abwehr of the RSHA, war criminal
• 1940 Franz Müntefering, German politician
• 1950 Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer
• 1971 Sergi Bruguera, Spanish tennis professional
• 1980 Amira Mohamed Ali, German politician
• 1980 Seydou Keita, Malian footballer
• 1992 Ronja von Rönne, German blogger, journalist, writer, and presenter

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „16. Januar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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