Today, January 16<\/p>\n
27 BC \u2013 Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus<\/em> by the Roman Senate.<\/p>\n 550 \u2013 Bribing the city garrison, the Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer, and sack, Rome<\/p>\n 1605 \u2013 The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha<\/em> (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid, Spain.<\/p>\n 1786 \u2013 Virginia enacts the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.<\/p>\n 1847 \u2013 John C. Fr\u00e9mont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory.<\/p>\n 1883 \u2013 The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, establishing the United States Civil Service, is enacted by Congress.<\/p>\n 1919 \u2013 Nebraska becomes the 36th state, and the last one necessary, to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 TWA Flight 3, a DC-3, crashes after takeoff from Las Vegas, killing all 22 passengers and crew aboard<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 At 23:38 hrs UTC, 2 U.S. MH-53 Pave Low<\/em> helicopters, leading 8 U.S. AH-64 Apache<\/em> helicopters, strike Iraqi radar sites near the Iraqi\/Saudi Arabian border. 2001 \u2013 President Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish\u2013American War.<\/p>\n 2003 \u2013 The Space Shuttle Columbia<\/em> lifts off the 28th time for mission STS-107<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 The first impeachment of President Trump moves into its trial phase in the United States Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, January 16 27 BC \u2013 Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus is granted the title Augustus by the Roman Senate. 550 \u2013 Bribing the city garrison, the Ostrogoths, under King Totila, conquer, and sack, Rome 1605 \u2013 The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63879"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89343,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63879\/revisions\/89343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n5 minutes later, 2 U.S. EF-111 Ravens<\/em>, leading 22 U.S. F-15E Eagles<\/em>, strike Iraqi airfields in western Iraq
\n17 minutes later, 3 U.S. EF-111 Ravens<\/em>, leading 10 U.S. F-117 Nighthawks<\/em>, strike downtown metropolitan Baghdad, beginning the air campaign of Operation Desert Storm.<\/p>\n