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January 16th, 2027	Event	The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate.
January 16th, 2006	Event	Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia s new president. She becomes Africa s first female elected head of state.
January 16th, 2003	Event	The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.
January 16th, 2002	Event	The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban.
January 16th, 2001	Event	Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
January 16th, 2001	Event	US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War.
January 16th, 1996	Event	Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou resigns from office for health reasons.
January 16th, 1992	Event	El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City ending a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75,000.
January 16th, 1991	Event	The United States goes to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).
January 16th, 1986	Event	First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.

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