Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/January 16

January 16: Teachers' Day in Thailand.

Emperor Augustus

• 27 BC - Gaius Octavianus (pictured) was given the title Augustus by the Roman Senate.

• 929 - Emir Abd-ar-Rahman III of Cordoba declared himself caliph, thereby establishing the Caliphate of Córdoba.

• 1547 - Ivan the Terrible was crowned Tsar of Russia.

• 1909 - The expedition led by Ernest Shackleton located the Magnetic South Pole.

• 2006 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf was sworn in as President of Liberia, becoming Africa's first female elected head of state.

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