Important Events From This day in History – 16th January

Today in History

• 2005 Adriana Iliescu gives birth at the age of 66

  The Romanian university lecturer set the world record for the oldest birth mother.

• 1992 The civil war in El Salvador ends

  The war lasted over 12 years and left more than 75,000 people dead.

• 1979 The Shah of Iran flees the country

  As a consequence, Ayatollah Khomeini later took power and proclaimed the Islamic Republic.

• 1919 Prohibition begins in the United States

  The 18th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors.

• 27 BC The Roman Empire is established

  On this day, the Roman Senate bestowed the honorific Augustus upon Octavian, marking the beginning of the Imperium Romanum.