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What Happened on February 16th This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the two year anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria.
2013	A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
2006	The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
2005	The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
2005	The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–05 regular season and playoffs.
2000	Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, killing all three aboard.
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 seven more on the ground.
1996	A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
1991	Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
1986	The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
1986	China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near Penghu Airport in Taiwan, killing all 13 aboard.
1985	Hezbollah is founded.
1983	The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
1978	The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
1968	In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
1968	Civil Air Transport Flight 010 crashes near Shongshan Airport in Taiwan, killing 21 of the 63 people on board and one more on the ground.
1962	The Great Sheffield Gale impacts the United Kingdom, killing nine people; the city of Sheffield is devastated, with 150,000 homes damaged.
1962	Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
1961	Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
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.
1959	Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
1945	World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
1945	The Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States, was signed into law.
1943	World War II: In the early phases of the Third Battle of Kharkov, Red Army troops re-enter the city.
1942	World War II: In Athens, the Greek People's Liberation Army is established
1942	World War II: Attack on Aruba, first World War II German shots fired on a land based object in the Americas.
1940	World War II: Altmark incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. A total of 299 British prisoners are freed.
1937	Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
1936	The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
1934	The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
1930	The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
1923	Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
1918	The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
1900	The Southern Cross expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink achieved a new Farthest South of 78° 50'S, making the first landing at the Great Ice Barrier.
1899	Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
1881	The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
1866	Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
1862	American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1804	First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
1796	Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) falls to the British, completing their invasion of Ceylon.
1742	Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
1699	First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania.
1646	Battle of Torrington, Devon: The last major battle of the first English Civil War.
1630	Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil.
1270	Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse.
1249	Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.

Famous People Born on February 16

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Year	Name
1838	Henry Adams, American journalist, historian, and author (d. 1918)
1878	James Colosimo, Italian-American mob boss (d. 1920)
1514	Georg Joachim Rheticus, Austrian cartographer and instrument maker (d. 1574)
1967	Keith Gretzky, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1987	Luc Bourdon, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2008)
1981	Susanna Kallur, Swedish sprint hurdler
1901	Wayne King, American singer-songwriter and conductor (d. 1985)
1884	Robert J. Flaherty, American director and producer (d. 1951)
1939	Adolfo Azcuna, Filipino lawyer and judge
1985	Simon Francis, English footballer

Famous People Deaths On February 16

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Date	Name
902	Mary the Younger, Byzantine saint (b. 875)
1710	Esprit Fléchier, French bishop and author (b. 1632)
1754	Richard Mead, English physician (b. 1673)
2000	Marceline Day, American actress (b. 1908)
2019	Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (b. 1941)
2013	Colin Edwards, Guyanese footballer (b. 1991)
1917	Octave Mirbeau, French journalist, novelist, and playwright (b. 1848)
2006	Johnny Grunge, American wrestler (b. 1966)
1645	Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Spanish general and politician, 24th Governor of the Duchy of Milan (b. 1585)
2015	Lasse Braun, Algerian-Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1936)