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February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar . There are 318 days remaining (319 in leap years ).
Events
1742 - Spencer Compton , Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister . 1804 - First Barbary War : Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate Philadelphia . 1838 - Weenen Massacre : Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal were killed by Zulus . 1852 - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established. 1857 - The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University ) is established. in Washington, DC becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf . 1862 - American Civil War : General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson , Tennessee . 1868 - In New York City the Jolly Gorks organization is renamed the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE). 1883 - Ladies Home Journal is published for the first time. 1918 - Lithuania declares its independence from both Russia and Germany . 1923 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun . 1937 - Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon . 1943 - World War II : Russia reconquers Kharkov . 1945 - World War II : American forces land on Corregidor island in the Philippines . 1945 - American forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula. 1959 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after President Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1 . 1961 - Explorer 9 launched. (See Explorer program ) 1968 - In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. 1970 - Joe Frazier starts a heavyweight world boxing champion winning streak with the knock out of Jimmy Ellis in five rounds. 1972 - NBA basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scores 30,000th point. 1978 - The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois ). 1983 - The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 71 people in Australia's worst ever fires. 1986 - The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds , New Zealand . 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 . 1989 - Pan Am flight 103 : Investigators announce that the cause of the crash was a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player. 1991 - Gulf War : U.S. and U.K. war planes bomb the suburbs of Baghdad , injuring at least 11 civilians and killing three others. 1998 - A China Airlines Airbus A300 -622R crashes on approach to airport, Taipei, Taiwan killing 203 including 6 on the ground 1999 - In Uzbekistan a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov . 1999 - Across Europe , Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrested one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan . 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 1222 - Nichiren , monk, founder of Nichiren Buddhism 1497 - Philipp Melanchthon , humanist and reformer (d. 1560 ) 1620 - Friedrich Wilhelm , called "Great Elector" of Brandenburg -Ducal Prussia (d. 1688 ) 1822 - Sir Francis Galton , explorer, biologist (d. 1911 ) 1826 - Joseph Victor von Scheffel, poet (d. 1886 ) 1826 - Julia Grant , First Lady , wife of President Ulysses S. Grant (d. 1902 ) 1834 - Ernst Haeckel , zoologist and philosopher (d. 1919 ) 1838 - Henry Adams, historian and novelist (d. 1918 ) 1876 - George Macaulay Trevelyan , historian (d. 1962 ) 1901 - Wayne King, band leader ("The Waltz King") 1903 - Edgar Bergen , ventriloquist (d. 1978 ) 1926 - John Schlesinger , film director (d. 2003 ) 1927 - June Brown , British actress 1927 - Tom Kennedy , game show host 1931 - Otis Blackwell , songwriter, singer 1935 - Sonny Bono , singer, music producer, television producer, Congressman (d. 1998 ) 1942 - Kim Jong Il , North Korean leader 1944 - Richard Ford , Pulitzer Prize winning novelist 1945 - Jeremy Bulloch , actor 1948 - Pete Postlethwaite , actor 1950 - Peter Hain , British politician 1951 - William Katt , American actor 1954 - Iain Banks , author 1957 - LeVar Burton , actor 1957 - James Ingram , singer 1958 - Ice-T , singer, songwriter, actor 1959 - John McEnroe , tennis player 1960 - Pete Willis, ex-Def Leppard guitarist 1964 - Christopher Eccleston , actor (Our Friends in the North , Doctor Who ) 1972 - Jerome Bettis , American football player 1973 - Cathy Freeman , Australian athlete 1975 - Aikawa Nanase , Japanese Musician 1977 - Ian Clarke , creator of Freenet 1980 - Ashley Lelie , American football player
Deaths 1279 - King Afonso III of Portugal (b. 1210 ) 1898 - Thomas Bracken, NZ poet, author of God's Own Country 1912 - St. Nikolai of Japan , monk priest of Eastern Orthodoxy (b. 1836 ) 1928 - Eddie Foy , vaudevillian , singer, dancer 1975 - Morgan Taylor , American athlete 1978 - E. Roland Harriman , financier (b. 1895 ) 1992 - Angela Carter , writer (b. 1940 ) 1996 - Edmund G. Brown , Governor of California (b. 1905 ) 1996 - Brownie McGhee , blues singer (b. 1915 ) 2002 - Walter Winterbottom , the first England football manager (b. 1913 ) 2003 - Alexander Tišma, author
Holidays and observances February 15 - February 17 - January 16 - March 16 -- listing of all days
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February 16 , 17 and 18, in the Social Sciences Auditorium (admission $3); and a trip to the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt in Phoenix, on Sunday, February 19.
Thursday, February 16 , in room 201 of the PAS Building on the UA campus, Fourth Street east of Park Avenue.
Tuesdays, February 21 and 28, at the Arizona State Museum, inside the UA campus main gate at Park Avenue and University Boulevard.
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