Today is Tuesday, Jan. 16, the sixteenth day of 2024. There are 350 days left within the yr.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 16, 27 BC, Caesar Augustus was declared the primary Emperor of the Roman Empire by the Senate.
On this date:
In 1865, Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman decreed that 400,000 acres of land within the South could be divided into 40-acre tons and given to former slaves. (The order, later revoked by President Andrew Johnson, is believed to have impressed the expression, “Forty acres and a mule.”)
In 1912, a day earlier than reaching the South Pole, British explorer Robert Scott and his expedition discovered proof that Roald Amundsen of Norway and his staff had gotten there forward of them.
In 1919, pianist and statesman Ignacy Jan Paderewski (pah-dehr-EHF’-skee) turned the primary premier of the newly created Republic of Poland.
In 1920, Prohibition started within the United States because the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution took impact, one yr to the day after its ratification. (It was later repealed by the twenty first Amendment.)
In 1942, actor Carole Lombard, 33, her mom, Elizabeth, and 20 different individuals have been killed when their airplane crashed close to Las Vegas, Nevada, whereas en path to California from a war-bond promotion tour.
In 1989, three days of rioting started in Miami when a police officer fatally shot Clement Lloyd, a Black motorcyclist, inflicting a crash that additionally claimed the lifetime of Lloyd’s passenger, Allan Blanchard. (The officer, William Lozano, was convicted of manslaughter, however then was acquitted in a retrial.)
In 1991, the White House introduced the beginning of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. (Allied forces prevailed on Feb. 28, 1991.)
In 2002, Richard Reid was indicted in Boston on federal fees alleging he’d tried to explode a US-bound jetliner with explosives hidden in his footwear. (Reid later pleaded responsible and was sentenced to life in jail.)
In 2003, the house shuttle Columbia blasted off for what turned out to be its final flight; on board was Israel’s first astronaut, Ilan Ramon (ee-LAHN’ rah-MOHN’). (The mission resulted in tragedy on Feb. 1, when the shuttle broke up throughout its return descent, killing all seven crew members.)
In 2017, former NASA astronaut Eugene Cernan, up to now the final man to stroll on the moon, died in Houston on the age of 82.
In 2020, the primary impeachment trial of President Donald Trump opened within the Senate, with senators standing and swearing an oath of “neutral justice.” Trump, who denounced the proceedings as a “hoax,” would later be acquitted on fees of abuse of energy and obstruction of Congress.
In 2013, Pauline Friedman Phillips, higher referred to as recommendation columnist Dear Abby, died in Minneapolis at age 94.
In 2023, Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested at a personal clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three a long time on the run.