On This Very Day
January 16th
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- 1493
Christopher Columbus sets sail back to Spain, leaving the New World.
- 1547
Ivan IV, known as the Terrible, becomes the first tsar of Moscow at age 17.
- 1605
First edition of 'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes published in Madrid.
- 1865
Explosion at Fort Fisher, NC, caused by drunken soldiers' carelessness, injures 200.
- 1911
'Pandora' becomes first 2-man sailboat to round Cape Horn west to east.
- 1936
First photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track, Florida.
- 1939
'Superman' comic strip debuts in daily newspapers.
- 1951
World's largest gas pipeline opens, running from Brownsville, Texas to New York City.
- 1974
'Jaws' by Peter Benchley is published, later inspiring the famous film.
- 1989
USSR announces a two-year manned mission plan to Mars.
- 2005
Adriana Iliescu becomes world's oldest birth mother at 66 in Romania.
- 2016
First flower grown in space: a zinnia on the International Space Station.
- 1992
Civil war in El Salvador ends, concluding over 12 years of conflict.
- 1919
Prohibition begins in the US, banning manufacture and sale of liquors. View Post →
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