Daily Calendar for January 16th, 2021

The Old Farmer's Almanac daily calendar gives you quick reference for the significant events on any day throughout the year.

Every Year

• 27 B.C. Roman Senate granted Gaius Octavius title of Augustus

1540s

• 1547: Ivan the Terrible crowned as first Russian czar

1870s

• Born 1874: Robert Service (poet)

1900s

• Born 1908: Ethel Merman (singer & actress)

1920s

• 1920: Prohibition went into effect in the U.S.

• Born 1928: William Kennedy (American writer)

1930s

• Born 1934: Marilyn Horne (opera singer)

1940s

• Died 1942: Carole Lombard (actress)

• Born 1944: Ronnie Milsap (singer)

1950s

• Born 1950: Debbie Allen (actress, dancer, & choreographer)

• Born 1959: Sade (singer)

1960s

• 1961: US Department of State issues a ban on travel to Cuba

1970s

• Born 1974: Kate Moss (supermodel)

• 1974: Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians became the first tribe in the U.S. to issue tribal license plates

• Born 1979: Aaliyah (singer)

• Died 1979: Ted Cassidy (actor)

1990s

• 1991: Operation Desert Storm launched

• Died 1994: Leland Stowe (journalist)

2000s

• 2004: 121.5-pound blue catfish caught, Lake Texoma, Texas

• Died 2009: Andrew Wyeth (artist)

2010s

• Died 2010: Carl Milton Smith (American country music singer)

• Died 2013: Pauline Friedman Phillips, pen name Abigail Van Buren ("Dear Abby" advice columnist)

• Died 2014: Russell Johnson (actor)