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
- 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.
- 1899 –Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland’s first football club is founded.
- 1923 –Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
- 1937 –Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
- 1940 –World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.
- 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 –The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered.
- 1962 –Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
- 1978 –The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).
- 1980 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Metal Monkey in Chinese astrology.
- 1983 –The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
- 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.
- 1999 –Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
- 1999 –In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.
- 2006 –The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
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