National days on January 16, 2027

A little reason to celebrate

National Quinoa Day

Food · January 16

A day for quinoa, the small, quick-cooking seed from the Andes that people eat like a grain in bowls, salads and breakfast porridge.

1780: American Revolutionary War: Battle of Cape St. Vincent. American Revolutionary War
1919: Nebraska becomes the 36th state to approve the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. With the necessary three-quarters of the states approving the amendment, Prohibition is constitutionally mandated in the United States one year later. Nebraska
1969: Space Race: Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of crewed spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk. Space Race
1984: A radiation detector at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, United States, detects radioactivity after a truck carrying rebar accidentally passed through the laboratory's area, revealing a contamination incident that occurred in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, the previous month. Particle detector
2020: The United States Senate ratifies the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement as a replacement for NAFTA. United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement