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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_16" title="January 16">January 16</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1809" title="1809">1809</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peninsular_War" title="Peninsular War">Peninsular War</a>: French forces under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-de-Dieu_Soult" title="Jean-de-Dieu Soult">Jean-de-Dieu Soult</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Corunna" title="Battle of Corunna">attacked</a></b> the British's amphibious evacuation under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Moore_(British_Army_officer)" title="John Moore (British Army officer)">Sir John Moore</a> at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Coru%C3%B1a" title="A Coruña">Corunna</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_(Spain)" title="Galicia (Spain)">Galicia</a>, Spain.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1862" title="1862">1862</a> – A pumping engine at a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining" title="Coal mining">colliery</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hartley" title="New Hartley">New Hartley</a>, England, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartley_Colliery_disaster" title="Hartley Colliery disaster">broke and fell down the shaft</a></b>, trapping miners below and resulting in 204 deaths.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942" title="1942">1942</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>: During the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bataan" title="Battle of Bataan">Battle of Bataan</a>, U.S. Army sergeant <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Calugas" title="Jose Calugas">Jose Calugas</a></b> organized a squad of volunteers to man an artillery position under heavy fire, which later earned him the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor" title="Medal of Honor">Medal of Honor</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964" title="1964">1964</a> – The musical <i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_(musical)" title="Hello, Dolly! (musical)">Hello, Dolly!</a></b></i> opened at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James_Theatre" title="St. James Theatre">St. James Theatre</a> on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre" title="Broadway theatre">Broadway</a>, and went on to win ten <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Awards" title="Tony Awards">Tony Awards</a>, a record that stood for 37 years.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018" title="2018">2018</a> – In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrauk_U" title="Mrauk U">Mrauk U</a>, Myanmar, police <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrauk_U_riot" title="Mrauk U riot">fired into a crowd</a></b> protesting the ban of an event to mark the anniversary of the end of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Mrauk_U" title="Kingdom of Mrauk U">Kingdom of Mrauk U</a>, resulting in seven deaths and twelve injuries.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Komnenos_(son_of_Alexios_I)" title="Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I)">Isaac Komnenos</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1093); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon" title="Edward Gibbon">Edward Gibbon</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1794); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Thorburn" title="Cliff Thorburn">Cliff Thorburn</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1948); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Cernan" title="Gene Cernan">Gene Cernan</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2017)</p>
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