Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 16

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 * 27 BC – Gaius Octavianus was given the titles Augustus and Princeps by the Roman Senate when he became the first Roman emperor.
 * 1537 – Sir Francis Bigod began an armed rebellion against King Henry VIII and the English Parliament.
 * 1780 – American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy gained their first major naval victory over their European enemies in the war when they defeated a Spanish squadron in the Battle of Cape St. Vincent.
 * 1883 – The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
 * 1905 – Despite being blind in one eye, ice hockey player Frank McGee (pictured) set the record for most goals in a Stanley Cup game when he scored 14 against the Dawson City Nuggets.
 * 1920 – The League of Nations, the first worldwide intergovernmental organization with a focus on peace and security, held its first council meeting in Paris.
 * 1942 – TWA Flight 3 crashed into Potosi Mountain in Nevada, killing actress Carole Lombard and all of the other 21 people on board.
 * 1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler and his staff moved into the Führerbunker in Berlin, where he would eventually commit suicide.
 * 2016 – After gunmen took hostages the previous night at a restaurant in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, government commandos stormed the premises to bring the situation to an end.
 * Born/died: | Nikephoros Choumnos |d|1327| Guru Har Rai |b|1630|  Osip Brik |b|1888| John C. Breckinridge |b|1821|    Miguel Ángel Mancera |b|1966| Susie Bootja Bootja Napaltjarri |d|2003| Marjorie Williams |d|2005| Lorna Kesterson |d|2012| Pauline Phillips |d|2013