WHAT HAPPENED ON 16. JANUARY
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Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards. (16. January 2001)

US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War. (16. January 2001)

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. (16. January 2002)

The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry. (16. January 2003)

Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world (16. January 2005)

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state. (16. January 2006)

An estimated 41 international workers are taken hostage in an attack in the town of In Aménas, Algeria. (16. January 2013)