On this day — January 16

killing seven and wounding twelve.

killing 39 people.

Burkina Faso on a hotel and a nearby restaurant.

The Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) is established with the stated goal of re-organizing Syria along the lines of democratic confederalism.

She becomes Africa's first female elected head of state.

Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-entry.

The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo and the freezing of assets of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, and the remaining members of the Taliban.

Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards in Kinshasa.

destroying 25 homes and burying 26 people, 14 of whom died.

Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.

beginning the Gulf War.