About February 16
February 16, 2025 is the 47th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 318 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 366 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 16
- 1249 –Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with Mongol Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
- 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.
- 1852 –Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
- 1862 –American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
- 1866 –Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
- 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.
- 1957 –The “Toddlers’ Truce”, a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
- 1961 –Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
- 1962 –Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
- 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.
- 2006 –The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
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