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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

This will be 16th day of the year and 349 days will remain in the year.

Hebrew calendar — 5 Shevat 5773
Chinese calendar — the 5th day of the 12th month of 4710 (Ren Chen)
Islamic calendar — (note)

January 16 Birthdays

Fulgencio Batista
1901–1973, Cuban President.

Robert W. Service
writer (1874)

Ethel Merman
entertainer (1909)

Dizzy Dean
baseball player (1911)

William Kennedy
novelist (1928)

Susan Sontag
writer and critic (1933)

Marilyn Horne
mezzo-soprano (1934)

A.J. Foyt
auto racer (1935)

Aaliyah
singer, actor (1979)

January 2013

S	M	T	W	T	F	S
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7	8	9	10	11	12
13	14	15	16	17	18	19
20	21	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29	30	31

January 16 in History

1547

Ivan the Terrible was crowned the first czar of Russia.

1883

The U.S. Civil Service Commission established.

1920

A year after it was ratified, the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages, went into effect.

1942

Actress Carole Lombard, the wife of actor Clark Gable, died in a plane crash.

1991

Operation Desert Storm was announced by the White House.

1992

The El Salvador government signed a peace treaty with guerrilla forces, formally ending 12 years of civil war.

2001

Laurent Kabila, president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was assassinated.

2003

Space shuttle Columbia blasted off on what would be its final mission. The craft broke up on its descent on Feb. 1, killing all on board.

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Note: Dates in the Islamic calendar are provided for planning purposes only, and calculated with the hdate Islamic calendar program for moonrise in Boston, Masschusetts. Depending on your location and other factors, this result may differ from actual religious observances by one day. Please consult your local religious authority for any religious determinations of hejiric date.