Hidden Stories: What Happened on January 16?

Tips and Support Appreciated: https://streamlabs.com/mrdearmon/tip

Explore the events that occurred on January 16th throughout history, from famous birthdays to important historical moments. This date has seen everything from scientific breakthroughs to political milestones. Join us as we dive into the events of January 16th in this date in history video:

27 BC The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate
1493 Christopher Columbus leaves the New World and sets sail for Spain
1776 Continental Congress approves enlistment of free blacks
1777 Vermont declares independence from New York
1793 French King Louis XVI sentenced to death by the National Convention during the French Revolution
1865 General William Sherman issues Field Order #15 (land for blacks)
1868 Refrigerator car patented by William Davis, a fish dealer in Detroit
1870 Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to US after Civil War
1871 Jefferson Long of Georgia sworn in as 2nd black congressman
1900 The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands
1909 Antarctic explorers Douglas Mawson, Edgeworth David and Alistair Mackay reach south magnetic pole as part of the Nimrod Expedition
1917 "Zimmermann Telegram" is sent from Germany to Mexico, stating in the event of the US entering World War I on the allied side, Mexico would be given Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. Intercepted by British intelligence and partially deciphered by the next day. It's release in March shifts US public opinion in favor of war against Germany.
1919 The 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, authorizing the prohibition of alcohol, is ratified by a majority of US states
1936 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah, Florida
1939 Daily newspaper comic strip "Superman" debuts
1941 US vice admiral Bellinger warns of an assault on Pearl Harbor
1941 War Department forms first Army Air Corps squadron for black cadets
1944 General Eisenhower takes command of Allied Invasion Force in London
1945 Adolf H*tler moves into his underground bunker in Berlin, where he lives until his suicide April 30
1957 3 US B-52 bombers leave California for 1st non-stop around the world flights
1963 Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb
1970 4 months after leading a coup against monarchy, Muammar Gaddafi takes over rule of Libya
1979 Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees Iran for Egypt during the Iranian Revolution
1988 Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder fired from CBS for racial remarks
2001 US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War
2003 The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry.
2005 At 66 years old, Romanian university lecturer Adriana Illiescu becomes the oldest birth mother in the world
2016 First ever flower grown in space - a zinnia aboard the International Space Station using NASA Veggie system
2020 Impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump begins in the Senate