On this day …
January 16, 2015
- In 27 B.C., Octavius was granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate, marking the beginning of the Roman Empire.
- In 1547, Ivan IV of Russia, aka “Ivan the Terrible,” became Czar.
- In 1581, the English Parliament outlawed Roman Catholicism.
- In 1786, Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.
- In 1920, the League of Nations held its first council meeting in Paris.
- In 1979, the Shah of Iran fled the country with his family; they relocated to Egypt.
- In 2001, President Bill Clinton awarded Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for service in the Spanish-American War.
- In 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia took off for what proved to be its final mission; it disintegrated upon re-entry 16 days later.
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