Today is Thursday, January sixteenth, the sixteenth day of 2025. There are 349 days left within the 12 months.
Today in history:
On January 16, 1989, three days of unrest began in Miami when a police officer fatally shot Clement Lloyd, a black motorcyclist, leading to a crash that also killed Lloyd's passenger, Allan Blanchard. (The officer, William Lozano, was convicted of manslaughter but acquitted at a retrial.)
Also on this date:
In 1865, Union Major General William Tecumseh Sherman ordered that 400,000 acres of land within the South be divided into 40-acre lots and given to former slaves. (The order, later revoked by President Andrew Johnson, inspired the phrase “40 acres and a mule.”)
In 1970, St. Louis Cardinals center fielder Curt Flood filed a $1 million antitrust lawsuit against Major League Baseball and MLB Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, arguing for the proper to free agency.
In 1991, US President George HW Bush announced the beginning of Operation Desert Storm, an allied combat operation to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait, in a televised address to the nation.
In 1996, Wayne Newton performed his 25,000th show in Las Vegas. Newton had headlined more shows in Las Vegas than every other entertainer.
In 2001, Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila was fatally shot by considered one of his own bodyguards.
In 2006, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became the primary elected female head of state in Africa when she was sworn in as President of Liberia.
In 2018, authorities in Denmark accused inventor Peter Madsen of killing Swedish journalist Kim Wall aboard his private submarine. (Madsen can be convicted and sentenced to life in prison.)
Today's birthdays:
- Author William Kennedy is 97.
- Opera singer Marilyn Horne is 91.
- Hall of Fame auto racer AJ Foyt turns 90.
- Country musician Ronnie Milsap is 82.
- Filmmaker John Carpenter is 77.
- Actress, dancer and choreographer Debbie Allen is 75.
- Singer Sade (shah-DAY') is 66.
- Boxing Hall of Famer Roy Jones Jr. is 56.
- Model Kate Moss is 51.
- Actor, producer and songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda is 45.
- Baseball star Albert Pujols is 45.
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