Three Bundesstraße ( German federal highways ) cross south of Abensberg: B 16, B 299 and B 301.

Caltech received $ 144 million in federal funding for the physical sciences, $ 40. 8 million for the life sciences, $ 33. 5 million for engineering, $ 14. 4 million for environmental sciences, $ 7. 16 million for computer sciences, and $ 1. 97 million for mathematical sciences in 2008.

The National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 would have authorized indefinite detention of suspected terrorists, but enforcement of the relevant section was blocked by a federal court on May 16, 2012, ruling on a suit brought by a number of private citizens, including Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Birgitta Jonsdottir.

22 March 2006: in terms of a Memorandum of Understanding signed by Nigeria ’ s federal Government on 16 March, the Guangdong Xinguang International Group is to construct a revolutionary “ fast ” rail ( RFR ) system from Lagos to the capital Abuja ( where there is no existing railway ) as well as light rail lines to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport from Lagos city and to Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport from the Abuja city centre.

Prohibition was instituted with ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on January 16, 1919, which prohibited the "... manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States ..." Congress passed the " Volstead Act " on October 28, 1919, to enforce the law, but most large cities were uninterested in enforcing the legislation, leaving an understaffed federal service to go after bootleggers.

On June 16, 1909, President William Howard Taft, in an address to Congress, proposed a 2 % federal income tax on corporations by way of an excise tax and a constitutional amendment to allow the previously enacted income tax.

On July 16, 1792, the President met with the commissioners of the federal city to make his judgment in the architectural competition.

* August 16 – David Brearley, American Revolutionary War coloner, signer of the U. S. Constitution for New Jersey, and federal judge ( b. 1745 )

The Regierungsbezirk () is a subdivision in 4 of the 16 federal states in Germany.

With 16, 000 staff ( and assets of over £ 6 million ) it accounted for 80 % of the new federal bureaucracy.

On December 16, 2008, the Center for Biological Diversity sued the Interior Department under Kempthorne for introducing " regulations ... that would eviscerate our nation ’ s most successful wildlife law by exempting thousands of federal activities, including those that generate greenhouse gases, from review under the Endangered Species Act.

Funded via a federal grant of $ 16 million, it is a general aviation airport designed for private and charter aircraft.

In 1989, Josephine County received $ 16, 756, 000 in various federal payments ; by 1999, the payments had fallen to $ 9. 6 million.

Ninety-five people were classified as federal government workers, or 16. 2 % of the population, with the self-employed making up 5. 8 % of the population or 34 people.

The new federal program was incorporated into Title XVI ( Title 16 ) of the Social Security Act.

On 16 October, the emperor issued a " People's Manifesto " proposing the empire be restructured on federal lines with each nationality gaining its own state.

Over the course of his 51-year federal parliamentary career ( and an additional seven years prior to that in a colonial parliament ), Hughes changed parties five times: from Labor ( 1901 – 16 ) to National Labor ( 1916 – 17 ) to Nationalist ( 1917 – 30 ) to Australian ( 1930 – 31 ) to United Australia ( 1931 – 44 ) to Liberal ( 1944 – 52 ).

A federal grand jury indicted Weinberger on two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of justice on June 16, 1992.

* February 16 – Jerry Lee Lewis surrenders to federal authorities on charges of income tax evasion.

Although most federal agencies are based in the Washington D. C. region, only about 16 % ( or about 288, 000 ) of the federal government workforce is employed in this region.

1489 ), which would ( 1 ) amend the Federal Deposit Insurance Act to add prohibitions on FDIC insured bank affiliations instead of reenacting the affiliation restrictions in Glass-Steagall Sections 20 and 32, ( 2 ) direct federal banking regulators and courts to interpret these affiliation provisions and Glass-Steagall Sections 16 and 21 in accordance with the Supreme Court decision in Camp, and ( 3 ) repeal various GLBA changes to the Bank Holding Company Act.

Medicinal use of cannabis is legal in a number of countries, including Canada, the Czech Republic, Israel and 16 states of the United States ( though it is illegal, according to U. S. federal law ).

At the request of the Mayor of Montreal, Jean Drapeau, and the Quebec provincial government, and in response to general threats and demands made by the FLQ, the federal government declared a state of apprehended insurrection under the Act on 16 October 1970.

Their United States tax returns are due April 16, 1962.

Per capita consumption remains around 16 pounds in the United States.

Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon and the first to land in the lunar highlands.

John Young, a captain in the United States Navy, had flown on three spaceflights prior to Apollo 16: Gemini 3, Gemini 10 and Apollo 10, which orbited the Moon.

The insignia of Apollo 16 is dominated by rendering of an American eagle and a red, white and blue shield, representing the people of the United States, overlaying a gray background, the lunar surface.

Battleship Ammunition: 16 " artillery shells aboard one of the United States Iowa class battleship | Iowa-class battleships.

" Migration, Radicalism, and State Security: Legislative Initiatives in the Canada and the United States c. 1794 – 1804 " in Studies in American Political Development, Volume 16, Issue 1, April 2002, 48 – 60

* Counties in at least 16 U. S. States

The field of modern biotechnology is thought to have largely begun on June 16, 1980, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that a genetically modified microorganism could be patented in the case of Diamond v. Chakrabarty.

He planned to give himself a brief European holiday, but ended up away from the United States for 16 months.

France 16. 2 %, Netherlands 12. 7 %, Cameroon 9. 5 %, United States 6. 2 % ( 2007 )

Today, two United States Senators and 16 Chief Executives of Fortune 500 companies hold Columbia degrees, as do three of the 25 richest Americans and 20 living billionaires.

On March 2, 1983 CD players and discs ( 16 titles from CBS Records ) were released in the United States and other markets.

Currently, 19 subspecies are recognized, with 16 in Canada, Mexico and the United States, and three in Central America.

In 1894 and 1895 he filed patents and addenda in various countries for his Diesel engine ; the first patents were issued in Spain ( No. 16, 654 ), France ( No. 243, 531 ) and Belgium ( No. 113, 139 ) in December 1894, and in Germany ( No. 86, 633 ) in 1895 and the United States ( No. 608, 845 ) in 1898.

The United States commissioned its first torpedo boat destroyer,, Destroyer No. 1, in 1902 and by 1906 there were 16 destroyers in service with the US Navy.

* Distinguished Service Medal ( United States ) 16 September 1919.

On January 16, 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified, ushering in Prohibition in the United States, which lasted from 1920 to 1933.

A survey in the United States of more than 10, 000 physicians came to the result that approximately 16 % of physicians would ever consider halting life-sustaining therapy because the family demands it, even if believed that it was premature.

That amount represents 20 % of the United States population and 16 % of the crime statistics data collected by the FBI.

In July 16, 2008, after Zucker's death, the company was sold to NRDC Equity Partners, a private equity firm of Purchase, New York which already owned Lord & Taylor, the oldest department store chain in the United States.

Connick is ranked among the top 60 best-selling male artists in the United States by the Recording Industry Association of America, with 16 million in certified sales.

The United States has about 16, 000 military personnel stationed in Italy.

Patents were eventually granted in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, (, filed May 16, 1991, issued June 22, 1994 and expiring not later than May 16, 2011 ), the United States (, issued May 25, 1993 and expiring not later than January 7, 2012 ) and Japan ( JP 3225440 ).