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JANUARY 16 - IN THE HISTORY Calender Search
 
2007
Ron Carey (b.1935), TV and film actor, died in Los Angeles. He played Officer Carl Levitt in the Barney Miller (1976-1982) TV sitcom. His 15 movies included “High Anxiety” (1977) and “History of the World: Part I” (1981), both with Mel Brooks.
2007
Canadian Trade Minister David Emerson signed a technology deal with China, on a visit aimed at reinvigorating relations with the Asian superpower that have been dented by Canada's blunt talk on human rights.
2007
Colombian police found about $19 million belonging to a drug trafficking group buried under a house in the southwestern city of Cali. On Jan 12 police found $16 million hidden in a modest house in Cali.
2007
The European Parliament elected German conservative Hans-Gert Poettering as president of the chamber to replace outgoing Spanish Socialist Josep Borrell.
2007
Indian PM Manmohan Singh reiterated his government's offer for talks with separatist rebels in restive northeast Assam state after recent violence left 73 people dead.
2007
An Indonesian passenger train jumped its tracks, sending a crowded rail car plunging nearly 20 feet near the central Javanese town of Purwokerto. Five people were reported killed and more than 250 injured.
2007
Baghdad was struck by two bombings apparently targeting Shiite neighborhoods one near a university as students were leaving classes for the day that killed at least 31, and another at a used motorcycle marketplace that killed at least 15 people. The death toll across Iraq approached 150 including four who died when a roadside bomb struck a police patrol in a predominantly Shiite area of downtown Baghdad. Gianni Magazzeni, the chief of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq in Baghdad, said 34,452 civilians were killed and 36,685 were wounded last year.
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