Hisdates•ComPage 9: Historical Events In January - 16
Saturday, 22 February 2025
1986 Police arrested 3 IRA-terrorists in Amsterdam on this day in history. 
1987 Hu Yaobang resigns as head of China's Communist Party, accepting blame for policy mistakes stemming from student turmoil on this day in history.
1987 On this day in history earl Wilson, Bdwy columnist (Midnight Earl), dies in Yonkers at 79
1988 On this day in history 4th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Days of Our Live wins
1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks on January - 16.
1989 On January - 16 police arrest writer Vaclav Havel in Prague
1989 On January - 16 three days of riots begin in Miami after a police officer shoots and kills a black motorcyclist, which also claims the life of the passenger in the ensuing crash.
1989 On January - 16 uSSR announces plan for 2-year manned mission to Mars
1989 On this day in history pierre Boileau, screenwriter (Vertigo), dies at 82
1990 2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering on this day in history.
1990 Canadian Rail Operating Rules are approved by the Minister of Transport on January - 16.
1990 On January - 16 moscow rushed 11,000 more troops to Azerbaijan and Armenia to reinforce soldiers trying to quell deadly ethnic violence.
1990 On this day in history the Soviet Union sends 11,000 reinforcements to the Caucasus to end the civil war between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.
1991 On January - 16 operation 'Desert Storm' begins against Iraq, for its invasion of Kuwait
1991 Operation Desert Storm begins - US & 27 allies attack Iraq for occupying Kuwait (US times) on this day in history.
1991 The Persian Gulf War began with the allied bombing of Baghdad. President Bush drew the largest TV audience in history with an address to the nation on the commencement of hostilities against Iraq on this day in history.
1991 On January - 16 the White House announces the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
1992 On this day in history representatives of the El Salvadoran government and rebels sign a pact in Mexico City ending 12 years of civil war.
1992 Roselle Novelle, silent film actress, dies at 95 on this day in history.
1993 Windsor Castle was reopened just two months after a fire swept through the British landmark on January - 16.
1994 At a joint news conference in Geneva with President Clinton, Syrian President Hafez Assad indicated a willingness to negotiate a peace treaty with Israel on January - 16.
1994 Syria declares its commitment to peace with Israel on January - 16.
1995 On January - 16 former federal minister Ros Kelly, brought down over her administration of sports grants, resigns from Australian parliament.
1996 On this day in history new South Wales Premier Bob Carr announces that the state's next governor will be part-time and Government House to be turned over to public use.
1997 A bomb exploded at an Atlanta building housing an abortion clinic. An hour later, after investigators and others had come to the scene, a second bomb went off, injuring six people on January - 16.
1997 On this day in history ennis Cosby, the son of entertainer Bill Cosby, was shot to death while changing a tire on a freeway exit ramp in Los Angeles.
1998 On this day in history investigators for special counsel Kenneth Starr questioned former White House intern Monica Lewinsky about allegations that she had an affair with President Clinton.
2000 On January - 16 ricardo Lagos is elected Chile's first socialist president since Salvador Allende, whose government was toppled in a bloody 1973 military coup led by Gen Augusto Pinochet.
2001 Environmental activists and local authorities in a town in El Salvador where a mountainside buried an entire neighbourhood say deforestation and greed contributed to the earthquake disaster on this day in history.
2001 President Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was shot to death, reportedly by one of his bodyguards, who in turn was killed by other bodyguards on January - 16.
2003 President George W. Bush called the Michigan affirmative action program unconstitutional on this day in history.
2004 NASA announced plans to cancel further space shuttle missions to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope, an act that would condemn the Hubble to mechanical failure in the next two years on January - 16.
2005 Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66, the oldest woman in the world to do so on this day in history.
2005 On January - 16 armed militants kill 1 person and wound 8 people in the Gush Katif settlement, Gaza Strip. Hamas claims responsibility.Confirmation needed
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