Today in History - History - January 16th

1963Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb

2006Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's new president. She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.

1897John Dewey's essay "My Pedagogic Creed" appears in School Journal

1931Bradman scores 223 Australia v WI, 297 mins, 26 fours

1981Ivan Lendl intentionally loses a match in Volvo Masters in order to avoid having to play Bjorn Borg

27 BCThe title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate.

1952US Standard Board clears Stan Musial to get an $85,000 salary

2002The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the remaining members of the Taliban.

1832Charles Darwin lands at San Tiago, Cape Verde

195341st Australian Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats Mervyn Rose (6-0 6-3 6-4)

1948John Carpenter, Carthage NY, director (Halloween, The Thing)

1853Andre Michelin, France, industrialist/tire manufacturer (Michelin)

1901Fulgencio Batista, president/dictator of Cuba (1933-44, 1952-59)

1933Susan Sontag, NYC, author/film director (Benefactor, 1966 Pol Award)

1954Painter Marcel Duchamp (66) weds Alexina Duchamp (48) in New York City

1864White chapel murder victims Mary Ann Nichols (18) weds printer's machinist William Nichols

1794Edward Gibbon, English historian (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire), dies in London at 56

1901Hiram R. Revels, dies at 73