On Jan. 16, 1547, Ivan the Terrible was crowned czar of Russia.
In 1906 Chicago department store founder Marshall Field died at 71 in New York.
In 1920 Prohibition began in the United States.
In 1944 Gen. Dwight Eisenhower took command of the Allied Invasion Force in London.
In 1957 three B-52s took off from Castle Air Force Base in California on the first non-stop, round-the-world flight by jet planes. (The trip lasted 45 hours and 19 minutes.) Also, conductor Arturo Toscanini died at 89 in New York.
In 1964 the musical ”Hello, Dolly!” opened on Broadway.
In 1969 two Soviet Soyuz spaceships became the first to dock and transfer personnel in space.
In 1988 Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder was fired as a CBS Sports commentator, one day after his remarks about black athletes to a Washington TV station.
In 1991 the White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.
In 1992 the government of El Salvador and rebel leaders signed a pact ending 12 years of civil war that had killed at least 75,000 people.
In 1997 entertainer Bill Cosby’s only son, Ennis, was shot to death in Los Angeles in a roadside robbery. (The killer, Mikhail Markhasev, was sentenced to life in prison.)
In 2001 Congo President Laurent Kabila was killed in a shooting at his home. Also, Leonard Woodcock, former head of the UAW, died at 89 in Ann Arbor, Mich.
In 2002 Richard Reid was indicted in Boston for trying to blow up a jetliner with a shoe bomb.
In 2006 Africa’s first elected female head of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was sworn in as Liberia’s new president.
