On this day

JANUARY 16

1945: Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.

1956: President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine.

1991: The Coalition Forces go to war with Iraq, beginning the Gulf War.

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 LaurentDésiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.

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.