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February 16
(Redirected from 16 February)
February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 318 days remaining (319 in leap years).
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Events
1700-1899
1900-1949
1950-1999
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1959 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after President Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
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1961 - Explorer 9 launched. (See Explorer program)
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1968 - In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
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1970 - Joe Frazier starts a heavyweight world boxing champion winning streak with the knock out of Jimmy Ellis in five rounds.
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1972 - NBA basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scores 30,000th point.
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1978 - The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).
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1983 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 71 people in Australia's worst ever fires.
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1986 - The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
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1987 - The trial of John Demjanjuk, who was accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
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1989 - Pan Am flight 103: Investigators announce that the cause of the crash was a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player.
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1991 - Gulf War: U.S. and U.K. war planes bomb the suburbs of Baghdad, injuring at least 11 civilians and killing three others.
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1998 - A China Airlines Airbus A300-622R crashes on approach to airport, Taipei, Taiwan killing 203 including 6 on the ground
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1999 - In Uzbekistan a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.
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1999 - Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
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1999 - In Jasper, Texas, the trial begins of John William King who is accused of dragging African American James Byrd Jr. to death in an apparent hate crime.
Births
1200-1899
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1222 - Nichiren, monk, founder of Nichiren Buddhism
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1497 - Philipp Melanchthon, humanist and reformer (d. 1560)
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1620 - Friedrich Wilhelm, called "Great Elector" of Brandenburg-Ducal Prussia (d. 1688)
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1822 - Sir Francis Galton, explorer, biologist (d. 1911)
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1826 - Joseph Victor von Scheffel , poet (d. 1886)
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1826 - Julia Grant, First Lady, wife of President Ulysses S. Grant (d. 1902)
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1834 - Ernst Haeckel, zoologist and philosopher (d. 1919)
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1838 - Henry Adams, historian and novelist (d. 1918)
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1876 - George Macaulay Trevelyan, historian (d. 1962)
1900-1999
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1901 - Wayne King , band leader ("The Waltz King")
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1903 - Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (d. 1978)
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1926 - John Schlesinger, film director (d. 2003)
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1927 - June Brown, British actress
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1931 - Otis Blackwell, songwriter, singer
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1935 - Sonny Bono, singer, music producer, television producer, Congressman (d. 1998)
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1942 - Kim Jong Il, North Korean leader
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1944 - Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning novelist
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1945 - Jeremy Bulloch, actor
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1948 - Pete Postlethwaite, actor
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1950 - Peter Hain, British politician
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1951 - William Katt, American actor
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1954 - Iain Banks, author
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1957 - LeVar Burton, actor
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1958 - Ice-T, singer, songwriter, actor
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1959 - John McEnroe, tennis player
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1960 - Pete Willis , ex-Def Leppard guitarist
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1964 - Christopher Eccleston, actor (Our Friends in the North, Doctor Who)
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1972 - Jerome Bettis, American football player
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1973 - Cathy Freeman, Australian athlete
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1975 - Aikawa Nanase, Japanese Musician
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1977 - Ian Clarke, creator of Freenet
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1980 - Ashley Lelie, American football player
Deaths
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1279 - King Afonso III of Portugal (b. 1210)
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1898 - Thomas Bracken, NZ poet, author of God's Own Country
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1912 - St. Nikolai of Japan, monk priest of Eastern Orthodoxy (b. 1836)
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1928 - Eddie Foy, vaudevillian, singer, dancer
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1975 - Morgan Taylor, American athlete
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1978 - E. Roland Harriman, financier (b. 1895)
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1982 - Thelonious Monk, jazz musician (b. 1917)
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1992 - Angela Carter, writer (b. 1940)
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1996 - Edmund G. Brown, Governor of California (b. 1905)
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1996 - Brownie McGhee, blues singer (b. 1915)
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2002 - Walter Winterbottom, the first England football manager (b. 1913)
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2003 - Alexander Tišma , author
Holidays and observances
February 15 - February 17 - January 16 - March 16 -- listing of all days
Last updated: 05-03-2005 17:50:55
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