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The Independent
|January 16, 2026
1547: Ivan the Terrible, first Russian to assume the title of tsar, was crowned.
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1780: British forces under Admiral Rodney defeated the Spanish at Cape St Vincent.
1909: The magnetic south pole was found by Ernest Shackleton.
1928: Thomas Hardy was buried beside Charles Dickens in Westminster Abbey. His heart was buried in the grave of his first wife, Emma, in Stinsford, Dorset.
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