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History for January 16:
Events:
1865 - San Francisco Dramatic Chronicle started (now the San Francisco Chronicle.)
1887 - San Francisco's Cliff House badly damaged when a cargo of gunpowder on the schooner "Parallel" explodes nearby.
1920 - 18th Amendment, prohibition, goes into effect; repealed in 1933.
1956 - Egyptian President Nassar pledges to reconquer Palestine.
1978 - Russians' Soyuz 27 returns to Earth.
Birthdays:
1909 - Ethal Merman, Comedienne/Actress/Singer
1911 - Dizzy Dean, baseball player
1924 - Katy Jurado in Mexico
1934 - Marilyn Horne in Pennsylvania