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Notable events of January 16th:
1547 - Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
1919 - The United States of America ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
1936 - Albert Fish, American serial killer, executed.
1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1991 - U.S. declares war on Iraq.
1995 - UPN begins broadcasting.
Notable births:
Osip Brik
Frank Zamboni
Ethel Merman
Dizzy Dean
Dian Fossey
Susan Sontag
Laura Schlessinger
John Carpenter
Sade
Kate Moss
*cough*me*cough*
Aaliyah
1547 - Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar of Russia.
1919 - The United States of America ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.
1936 - Albert Fish, American serial killer, executed.
1945 - Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
1991 - U.S. declares war on Iraq.
1995 - UPN begins broadcasting.
Notable births:
Osip Brik
Frank Zamboni
Ethel Merman
Dizzy Dean
Dian Fossey
Susan Sontag
Laura Schlessinger
John Carpenter
Sade
Kate Moss
*cough*me*cough*
Aaliyah