WHAT HAPPENED ON 16. JANUARY
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Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) – Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule. (16. January 1878)

The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is passed. (16. January 1883)

Defeat of Cymru Fydd at South Wales Liberal Federation AGM, Newport, Monmouthshire. (16. January 1896)

The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands. (16. January 1900)

Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole. (16. January 1909)

Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification. (16. January 1919)

The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France. (16. January 1920)

Eleftherios Venizelos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for the fourth time. (16. January 1924)

The Irish Republican Army (IRA) begins a bombing and sabotage campaign in England. (16. January 1939)

Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard. (16. January 1942)

Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker. (16. January 1945)

President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine. (16. January 1956)

Hello, Dolly! (musical) starring Carol Channing opened on Broadway, beginning a run of 2,844 performances. (16. January 1964)

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. (16. January 1969)

Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk. (16. January 1969)

Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal award from the American Institute of Architects. (16. January 1970)

The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt. (16. January 1979)

First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force. (16. January 1986)

The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time). (16. January 1991)

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. (16. January 1992)