Born on 16 January 1965

At A Glance

16 January 1965 at a glance

Day of the week

16 January 1965 was a Saturday.

UK Number One

The UK Number One single was “Yeh, Yeh” by Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames.

Top Film of 1965

The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 1965 was The Sound of Music.

Star sign

The star sign for 16 January is Capricorn.

Chinese zodiac

In the Chinese zodiac, 16 January 1965 fell in the Year of the Dragon.

Birthstone

The birthstone for January is Garnet.

Moon phase

The moon phase on 16 January 1965 was Waxing Gibbous.

On this day: 16 January

• 1942 The Holocaust: Nazi Germany begins deporting Jews from the Łódź Ghetto to Chełmno extermination camp.
• 1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
• 1969 Space Race: Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of crewed spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
• 1979 Iranian Revolution: The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
• 1984 A radiation detector at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, United States, detects radioactivity after a truck carrying rebar accidentally passed through the laboratory's area, revealing a contamination incident that occurred in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, the previous month.

Famous people born on 16 January

• Aaliyah, American singer and actress (1979–2001)
• Lin-Manuel Miranda, American actor, playwright, and composer (born 1980)
• Sade, Nigerian-English singer-songwriter and producer (born 1959)
• Sidharth Malhotra, Indian actor (born 1985)

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