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Friday, 16 January 2026

2006

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.

2003

The Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' takes off for mission STS-107 which would be its final one. Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.

2002

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.

2001

Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.

US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish-American War.

The First surviving wikipedia edit is made: UuU

1992

El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City ending the 12-year Salvadoran civil war that claimed at least 75,000.

1991

The United States goes to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War (U.S. Time).

1986

First meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force.

1979

The Shah of Iran flees Iran with his family and relocates to Egypt.

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