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January 16th, 1991
Start of Operation Desert Storm as American-led [-----1-----] begins bombing targets in Iraq and Kuwait. It happens after Saddam Hussein fails to meet a U.N. deadline on withdrawing from Kuwait. President George H. Bush: "Five months ago, Saddam Hussein started this cruel war against Kuwait. Tonight, the battle has been joined."
2003
Space shuttle Columbia [-----2-----] from Cape Canaveral, Florida on what turns out to be its final flight. The mission ends in tragedy when the shuttle [-----3-----] on re-entry with all of its crew lost.
1920
Prohibition takes effect across the United States [-----4-----]. The 18th Amendment to the Constitution establishing prohibition is repealed more than a decade later.
1979
Facing growing [-----5-----] the Shah of Iran flees into exile never to return. What soon follows, an Islamic fundamentalist regime led by the Ayatollah Khomeini replaces the Shah. Months later, dozens of Americans are taken hostage when the U.S. embassy is seized in Iran's capital, Tehran.
And 1964
In New York, the musical "Hello, Dolly!" starring Carol Channing opens on Broadway.
Today in History, January 16th, Ed Donahue, the Associated Press.
coalition lifts off disintegrates barring the sale, manufacture and transport of alcoholic beverages unrest