HISTORY AT A GLANCE

TODAY is Tuesday, January 16, the 16th day of 2018. There are 349 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date:

1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard. 1945 – Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker. 1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets’ crushing of the Prague Spring the year before. 1969 – Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the firstever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk. 1979 – The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt. 1991 – The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq,

beginning the Gulf War (US Time). 1992 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives. 2001 – Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards. 2001 – US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War. 2002 – The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban. 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. 2005 – Romanian university lecturer and novelist Adriana Iliescu gives birth at 66 to her daughter Eliza, breaking the record for the oldest birth mother in the world 2006 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia’s new president. She becomes Africa’s first female elected head of state. 2013 – An estimated 41 international workers are taken hostage in an attack in the town of In Aménas, Algeria.