About February 16
February 16, 2024 is the 47th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 319 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 348 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 16
- 1646 –Battle of Torrington, Devon – the last major battle of the first English Civil War.
- 1804 –First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
- 1862 –American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
- 1899 –Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland’s first football club is founded.
- 1923 –Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
- 1923 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 1934 –The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund.
- 1937 –Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
- 1943 –World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov.
- 1945 –World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
- 1957 –The “Toddlers’ Truce”, a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
- 1959 –Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
- 1960 –The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
- 1983 –The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
- 1986 –The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
- 1987 –The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed “Ivan the Terrible” in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
- 1991 –Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
- 1998 –China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and six more on the ground.
- 2005 –The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
- 2005 –The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labor dispute.
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