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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47642)1/16/2005 4:35:26 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50167
 
Today in history-January 16:

27 BC - Gaius Octavius was given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate.

1547 - Ivan the Terrible was crowned Tsar of Russia.

1605 - Book One of Don Quixote, El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, was first published in Madrid, Spain.

1909 - The expedition led by Sir Ernest H. Shackleton located the Magnetic South Pole.

1991 - Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm began.