January 16 in History 27 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate 1547 – Ivan IV of Russia (Ivan the Terrible) becomes Czar of Russia. 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. 1991 – The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq 2002 – 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. 2003 – The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry. 2005 – 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
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 09:30:00 +0000
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