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Day in History Archive January 16
January 16
1767: Swedish physicist Anders Ekeberg, discoverer of the element tantalum (Ta), was born. 1881: Radar pioneer Sir Arthur Percy Morris Fleming was born. 1909: British explorer Ernest Shackleton found Earth's magnetic south pole. 1919: Prohibition took effect in America. 1957: Three B-52s took off from Castle AFB, CA, on the first nonstop, around-the-world flight by jet planes - 45 hours and 19 minutes. 1967: American physicist and high voltage experimenter Robert Van de Graaff died. 1969: Two manned Soviet "Soyuz" spaceships became the first vehicles to dock in space and transfer personnel. 1986: The Internet Engineering Task Force held its first meeting. 1991: The White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. 2006: The Stardust capsule successfully returned to Earth, carrying dust from comet Wild 2.
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