Big (16th January)
3 Events
1909 – Ernest Shackleton‘s expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
2006 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia‘s new president. She becomes Africa‘s first female elected head of state.
2007 – Tri-Centenary of the United Kingdom. (1707 – The Scottish Parliament, ratified the Act of Union, paving way for the creation of Great Britain.)
2 Important Birthdays
1959 – Sade, Nigerian-born singer
1974 – Kate Moss, English model
1 Death
1815 – Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (b. 1765)
Holiday or Observance
National Religious Freedom Day in the United States, to commemorate the adoption of Thomas Jefferson‘s landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786
