Day Guide for Thursday January 16th 2025

This is our day guide for Thursday January 16th 2025 which shows you at a glance what's happening on this day around the world. Using the calendar on this page, you can look at a day guide for any day. Why not look up your birthday to see which holidays you share it with?

Observances on January 16th 2025

National Religious Freedom Day

Religious
International

Find out the dates, history and traditions of National Religious Freedom Day

National Fig Newton Day

Food
USA

Find out the dates, history and traditions of National Fig Newton Day

National Nothing Day

Action
USA

Find out the dates, history and traditions of National Nothing Day

DR Congo Heroes' Day

DR Congo

Heroes' Day in DR Congo is two days of public holidays to commemorate the deaths of two former Presidents

Kanuma in Sankranti

India

In Andhra Pradesh, the Kanuma festival is celebrated on the third day of four-day Sankranti festival

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General Information for January 16th 2025

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On this Day in History

2003 - Following 27 previous flights, the Space Shuttle Columbia embarks on its ill-fated final mission.
2001 - In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Laurent Kabila is assassinated and his son Joseph becomes president - thus opening another chapter in the long, bloody history of the Congolese civil war.
1917 - The RMS Mendi sails from Cape Town for France, just over a month before it was was sunk in what was the greatest disaster ever to occur in the waters of the Isle of Wight.
1909 - The largest-scale appearance of the Jersey Devil is said to have occurred, being sighted by over 1,000 people in New Jersey and Philadelphia.