January 16 - the day over the years

The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was published on this day

Today is Sunday, January 16, the sixteenth day of 2005.

Highlights in history on this date:

1547 - Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
1556 - Philip II becomes King of Spain.
1572 - The Duke of Norfolk is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England.

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1605 - The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid.

1761 - British capture Pondicherry, India from the French.
1777 - Vermont declares its independence from New York.
1780 - American Revolution: Battle of Cape St. Vincent.

1809 - Peninsular War: British defeat the French at the Battle of La Coruña.

1900 - US Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which UK renounced its claims to the Samoan islands.
1909 - Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1956 - President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.
1979 - The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.
1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins.
1998 - NASA announces that John Glenn will return to space when Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off in October 1998.

2002 - A student shoots 6 people at the Appalachian School of Law. Three of those shot die.; The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining Taliban.
2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which will be its final one. Columbia disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry.

Today's birthdays
William Kennedy, author (1928--)
Kabir Bedi, actor (1946--)
Kate Moss, supermodel (1974--)
Aaliyah, singer (1979--)