On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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As every major decision was made over more than a year, officials at all levels of government acted in ways that contributed to the public health emergency in Flint, Mich.
Mr. Sanders has struck a chord with young people, but his campaign acknowledges that beating Hillary Clinton in Iowa will require overcoming their history of dismal attendance.
With iPhone sales projected to decelerate, investors will be scouring Apple’s earnings report on Tuesday for signs of how fast the company’s downshift is happening.
New York City emerged from the weekend’s blizzard with relatively little damage, but the toll along the East Coast was more sobering: 29 deaths, thousands of homes without power and serious flooding.
They had the toughest ticket in town, but the snow foiled their plans. Some will get refunds, but what they really want is tickets for another show.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 20, 2016, covering January 24, 2016.
Adele
Justin Bieber
Twenty One Pilots
The Weeknd
Rachel Platten
2016Fredrik Barth, German-Norwegian anthropologist and academic (born 1928)[†]
Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth was a Norwegian social anthropologist who published several ethnographic books with a clear formalist view. He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, and previously held professorships at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen, Emory University and Harvard University. He was appointed a government scholar in 1985.
2016Marvin Minsky, American computer scientist and academic (born 1927)[†]
Marvin Lee Minsky was an American cognitive and computer scientist concerned largely with research in artificial intelligence (AI). He co-founded the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's AI laboratory and wrote extensively about AI and philosophy.
2016Henry Worsley, English colonel and explorer (born 1960)[†]
Lieutenant Colonel Alastair Edward Henry Worsley, was a British explorer and British Army officer. He was part of a 2009 expedition that retraced Ernest Shackleton's footsteps in the Antarctic.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]