Turkish Airlines Flight 6491 crashes into a residential area near Manas International Airport in Kyrgyzstan, killing 39 people. Date: January 16, 2017 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 16 📅 Events on this day in 2017 📅 On This Day (Today)

Myanmar police open fire on a group of ethnic Rakhine protesters, killing seven and wounding twelve. Date: January 16, 2018 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 16 📅 Events on this day in 2018 📅 On This Day (Today)

The United States Senate ratifies the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement as a replacement for NAFTA. Date: January 16, 2020 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 16 📅 Events on this day in 2020 📅 On This Day (Today)

The first impeachment of Donald Trump formally moves into its trial phase in the United States Senate. Date: January 16, 2020 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 16 📅 Events on this day in 2020 📅 On This Day (Today)

The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women. Date: January 15, 1908 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 15 📅 Events on this day in 1908 📅 On This Day (Today)

Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 99 m (325 ft). Date: January 15, 1910 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 15 📅 Events on this day in 1910 📅 On This Day (Today)

Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded. Date: January 15, 1911 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 15 📅 Events on this day in 1911 📅 On This Day (Today)

Great Molasses Flood: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150. Date: January 15, 1919 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 15 📅 Events on this day in 1919 📅 On This Day (Today)

Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent communists in Germany, are clubbed and then shot to death by members of the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising. Date: January 15, 1919 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 15 📅 Events on this day in 1919 📅…

The 8.0 Mw  Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people. Date: January 15, 1934 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 15 📅 Events on this day in 1934 📅 On This Day (Today)