WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 2013

Today is Wednesday, January 16, the 16th day of 2013. There are 349 days left in the year.

1547 ― Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself first tsar of Russia

1909 ― British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole

1913 ― British House of Commons accepts Home-Rule for Ireland

1920 ― First assembly of League of Nations (Paris)

1957 ― Cavern Club (home of Beatles' first appearance) opens on Mathew Street in England

1963 ― Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb

1966 ― Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center

1969 ― Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform first transfer of crew in space

1970 ― Colonel Gadhafi becomes premier of Libya

1985 ― ``Playboy” announces end of stapling centerfolds