TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY is Thursday, January 16, 2020.

On this day in history: 1547 - Ivan the Terrible was crowned Czar of Russia.

1572 - The Duke of Norfolk was tried for treason for complicity in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. He was executed on June 2.

1759 - The British Museum opened.

1793 - Free settlement commences in Australia.

1837 - The “Proclamation Establishment of Government in SA” is printed on South Australia’s first printing press. 1889 - Cloncurry, Queensland, records Australia’s highest shade temperature to date 53.1°C.

1909 - Australian geologists Douglas Mawson and Edgeworth David become the first to reach the magnetic South Pole.

1920 - Prohibition went into effect in the US.

1925 - Leon Trotsky was dismissed as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of the USSR.

1944 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied invasion force in London.

1970 - Colonel Muammar elQuaddafi became virtual president of Libya.

1979 - The Shah of Iran and his family fled Iran for Egypt.

1982 - Britain and the Vatican resumed full diplomatic relations after a break of over 400 years.

1985 - “Playboy” magazine announced its 30-year tradition of stapling centerfold models in the bellybutton and elsewhere would come to an immediate end.

2000 - Ricardo Lagos was elected Chile’s first socialist president since Salvador Allende.

2002 - The UN Security Council unanimously adopted sanctions against Osama bin Laden, his terror network and the remnants of the Taliban.