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Events on the 16th of February in history

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16 Feb 0116 Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia.
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16 Feb 0374 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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16 Feb 0600 Pope Gregory the Great decreea saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze
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16 Feb 1249 Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
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16 Feb 1270 Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse.
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16 Feb 1349 Jews are expelled from Burgsdorf Switzerland
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16 Feb 1486 Diet of Frankfort
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16 Feb 1512 Battle at Valeggio French troops beat Venetianen
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16 Feb 1559 Pope Paul IV calls for deposition of sovereigns supporting heresy
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16 Feb 1630 Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil.
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16 Feb 1641 English king Charles I accept Triennial Act
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16 Feb 1646 Battle of Torrington, Devon – the last major battle of the first English Civil War.
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16 Feb 1655 Dutch Grand Pensionary advisor Johan de Witt marries Wendela Bicker
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16 Feb 1659 1st known check (
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16 Feb 1666 Netherlands & Brandenburg sign treaty
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16 Feb 1677 Earl of Shaftesbury arrested/confined in London Tower
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16 Feb 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.
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16 Feb 1741 Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine (2nd US Magazine) begins publishing
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16 Feb 1742 Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
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16 Feb 1742 Earl of Wilmington becomes British premier
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16 Feb 1751 1st publication of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard"
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16 Feb 1760 Native American hostages killed in Ft Prince George, South Carolina
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16 Feb 1771 Messier presents his original list of 45 M-objects to French Academy
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16 Feb 1777 Messier adds M53 to his catalog (globular cluster in Coma Berenice)
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16 Feb 1804 Lt Stephen Decatur raids Tripoli Harbor and burns Navy frigate "Philadelphia" after pirates seized it
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16 Feb 1804 First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
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16 Feb 1824 Athenaeum founded
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16 Feb 1832 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches St-Pauls (1
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16 Feb 1838 Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions
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16 Feb 1840 American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica
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16 Feb 1846 Battle of Sobraon ends 1st Sikh War in India
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16 Feb 1852 Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
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16 Feb 1854 Franz Liszts symphony "Orpheus, " premieres
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16 Feb 1854 Franz Liszts symphony "Orpheus" premieres
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16 Feb 1857 Gallaudet College (National Deaf Mute college) forms (Washington DC)
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16 Feb 1860 Dutch Rochussen/Van Bosse government resigns
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16 Feb 1862 American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
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16 Feb 1862 Ft Donelson captured by General Grant (1,400 confederates surrender)
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16 Feb 1864 Battle of Mobile, AL - operations by Union Army
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16 Feb 1866 Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
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16 Feb 1868 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks forms (NY)
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16 Feb 1868 Benevolent & Protective Order of the Elks founded in New York
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16 Feb 1874 Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender.
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16 Feb 1880 American Society of Mechanical Engineers founded, New York NY
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16 Feb 1881 The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
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16 Feb 1883 "Ladies Home Journal" begins publishing
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16 Feb 1883 "Ladies Home Journal" begins publication
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16 Feb 1887 1st newspaper convention (Rochester NY)
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16 Feb 1887 Eduard Douwes Dekker writes his last text (Lf8-c5)
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16 Feb 1892 Opera "Werther, " premieres in Vienna
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16 Feb 1892 The opera "Werther" is produced (Vienna)
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16 Feb 1894 British troops occupy Ilorin, Gold Coast
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16 Feb 1899 Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
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16 Feb 1899 Pelham Warner scores 132 on Test Cricket debut (England vs South Africa Johannesburg)
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16 Feb 1900 Stanley Cup: Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 3 games to 1
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16 Feb 1900 1st Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes 1st issue (Chung Sai Yat Po-San Francisco)
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16 Feb 1900 Stanley Cup Montr
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16 Feb 1903 -59
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16 Feb 1905 1st US Esperanto club organizes in Boston
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16 Feb 1909 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (New York NY)
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16 Feb 1909 Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary
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16 Feb 1912 VSV soccer team forms in Ijmuiden
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16 Feb 1913 President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico
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16 Feb 1914 1st airplane flight from to Los Angeles from San Francisco
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16 Feb 1915 Frank Home Run Baker, 28, announces retirement following a contract dispute with Connie Mack; He sits out 1915 season
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16 Feb 1916 Russian troops conquer Erzurum Armenia
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16 Feb 1917 1st synagogue in 425 years opens in Madrid
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16 Feb 1918 The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
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16 Feb 1918 Lithuania declares independence from Russia & Germany (National Day)
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16 Feb 1923 Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
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16 Feb 1923 Howard Carter finds Pharoah Tutankhamen
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16 Feb 1923 Allies accept Latvia's occupation of Memel territory
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16 Feb 1923 US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard
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16 Feb 1923 US male Figure Skating championship won by Sherwin Badger
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16 Feb 1926 Suzanne Lenglen defeats Helen Wills in Tennis at Cannes France
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16 Feb 1927 No
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16 Feb 1927 US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey
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16 Feb 1929 KID-AM in Idaho Falls ID begins radio transmissions
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16 Feb 1930 The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
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16 Feb 1931 Extreme right wing Svinhufvud becomes President of Finland
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16 Feb 1932 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree
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16 Feb 1933 Catholic newspaper Germania warns against Nazis/communists
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16 Feb 1933 England regains the Ashes, thanks to bodyline tactics
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16 Feb 1934 The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
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16 Feb 1936 Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
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16 Feb 1936 4th Winter Olympics games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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16 Feb 1936 Spanish Frente Popular (People's Front) wins elections
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16 Feb 1937 Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
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16 Feb 1937 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers
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16 Feb 1937 Jean Anouilh's "Le Voyageur Sans Baggage" premieres in Paris
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16 Feb 1938 US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized
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16 Feb 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.
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16 Feb 1940 British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway
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16 Feb 1942 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery
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16 Feb 1943 Sign on Munich facade: "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2 / 18, beheaded on 2 / 22
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16 Feb 1943 World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway.
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16 Feb 1943 World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov.
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16 Feb 1943 -32
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16 Feb 1943 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gets pneumonia
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16 Feb 1943 Red army conquers Kharkov
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16 Feb 1943 Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa
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16 Feb 1945 World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
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16 Feb 1945 US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
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16 Feb 1945 Venezuela declares war on Nazi-Germany
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16 Feb 1946 "Duchess Misbehaves" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 5 performances
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16 Feb 1946 1st commercially designed helicopter tested - Bridgeport, Connecticut
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16 Feb 1947 Morton Gould's 3rd Symphony, premieres
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16 Feb 1948 1st newsreel telecast, "20th Century Fox-Movietone News" shown on NBC
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16 Feb 1948 Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for 1st time
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16 Feb 1950 Longest-running prime-time game show, "What's My Line" begins on CBS
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16 Feb 1950 Writers fail to elect anyone to Baseball's Hall of Fame
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16 Feb 1951 New York City passes bill prohibiting racism in city-assisted housing
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16 Feb 1951 San Francisco City Hall dome fire
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16 Feb 1952 Hall of Famer Honus Wagner, 77, retires; Pirates retire his #33
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16 Feb 1952 Ian Craig makes New South Wales cricket debut aged 16 years 249 days (New South Wales record)
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16 Feb 1954 WNEM TV channel 5 in Bay City MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
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16 Feb 1956 Britain abolishes the death penalty
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16 Feb 1957 The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
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16 Feb 1958 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA St Petersburg Golf Open
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16 Feb 1959 Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
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16 Feb 1959 Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista
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16 Feb 1959 Leonard Spigelgass' "Majority of One" premieres in New York NY
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16 Feb 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.
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16 Feb 1960 US nuclear submarine USS Triton set off on underwater round-world trip
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16 Feb 1961 1st all-solid-propellant rocket put in orbit, Wallops Island, Virginia
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16 Feb 1961 The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered.
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16 Feb 1961 Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
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16 Feb 1961 China uses it's 1st nuclear reactor
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16 Feb 1961 US satellite Explorer 9 is launched
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16 Feb 1962 Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
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16 Feb 1962 Darius Milhaud's 12th Symphony, premieres
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16 Feb 1962 US Open Tennis Jimmy Bostwick defeats brother Pete to win
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16 Feb 1963 Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me"
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16 Feb 1963 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of US)
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16 Feb 1963 C & A Building in Amsterdam burns down
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16 Feb 1964 "Foxy" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances
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16 Feb 1964 Beatles' 2nd appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"
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16 Feb 1965 "Baker Street" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 313 performances
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16 Feb 1965 Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors
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16 Feb 1966 Bob Cowper makes 307 vs England at the MCG, 727 minute s, 20 fours
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16 Feb 1966 End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Australia WK
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16 Feb 1966 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
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16 Feb 1967 Red Ruffing selected to Hall of Fame
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16 Feb 1968 Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon and wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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16 Feb 1968 Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"
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16 Feb 1968 In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
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16 Feb 1968 Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL
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16 Feb 1970 Joe Frazier TKOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
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16 Feb 1970 Joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown
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16 Feb 1972 German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed
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16 Feb 1972 1st NBA to score 30,000 points (Wilt Chamberlain in 940 games)
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16 Feb 1972 Test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe West Indies vs New Zealand Kingston, 214 & 100
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16 Feb 1972 Wilt Chamberlain hit 30,000 point mark during a game with Phoenix Suns
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16 Feb 1973 West Indies vs Australia at Kingston, 1st time since 1955 without Sobers
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16 Feb 1975 Washington Capitals 1st NHL shutout, beating Kansas City Scouts 3-0
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16 Feb 1977 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
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16 Feb 1978 The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
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16 Feb 1978 1st Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago)
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16 Feb 1979 George Harrison releases "Blow Away"
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16 Feb 1979 George Harrison releases "Blow Away"
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16 Feb 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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16 Feb 1980 Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France
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16 Feb 1980 Eric Heiden skates 5k in 7 02.29 (Olympics Record)
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16 Feb 1982 Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad
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16 Feb 1982 Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce
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16 Feb 1982 Agatha Barbara elected as 1st female President of Malta
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16 Feb 1983 The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
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16 Feb 1984 Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympics downhill skiing gold
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16 Feb 1984 New Jersey Devils 1st OT goal, Jan Ludvig beats Hartford Whalers 6-5
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16 Feb 1985 Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champ
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16 Feb 1985 Hezbollah is founded.
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16 Feb 1985 Largest NBA crowd to date, 43,816, sees Philadelphia at Detroit
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16 Feb 1985 New Jersey Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds
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16 Feb 1986 The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
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16 Feb 1986 M
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16 Feb 1986 "Uptown... It's Hot!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 24 performances
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16 Feb 1986 French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad
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16 Feb 1986 Hein Vergeer becomes world champion skater
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16 Feb 1986 Karlstad skates world record 10 km (14:12.14)
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16 Feb 1987 John Demjanjuk, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible" trial begins
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16 Feb 1987 The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
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16 Feb 1988 1st documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador
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16 Feb 1989 Egypt, Iraq, Jordan & North Yemen form common market
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16 Feb 1989 Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage
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16 Feb 1989 Roger Clemens, Red Sox pitcher signs record $7.5M-3 year contract
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16 Feb 1989 Orel Hershiser, Dodger pitcher signs $7.9M-3 year contract
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16 Feb 1989 William Hayden becomes governor-General of Australia
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16 Feb 1991 Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
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16 Feb 1991 Dutch PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands
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16 Feb 1991 US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
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16 Feb 1992 Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow & blue
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16 Feb 1992 Los Angeles Lakers retire Magic Johnson's #32 uniform
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16 Feb 1993 Sandra V"lker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.33 seconds)
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16 Feb 1993 Sandra V
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16 Feb 1994 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200
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16 Feb 1994 Johann Olav Koss skates world record 1500 meter (1:51.29)
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16 Feb 1994 Premier Alfonso Bustamente ends government in Peru
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16 Feb 1996 Gary Kirsten scores 188 for South Africa vs UAE at Rawalpindi
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16 Feb 1997 At age 25, Jeff Gordon is youngest winner in Daytona 500 history
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16 Feb 1997 GTE Suncoast Senior Golf Classic
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16 Feb 1997 Paul Stankowski wins Hawaiian Golf Open
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16 Feb 1997 Terry-Jo Myers wins LPGA Los Angeles Women's Championship
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16 Feb 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.
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16 Feb 1998 Tellabs Inc acquires Coherent Communications Systems for $670 million
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16 Feb 1999 Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
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16 Feb 1999 In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islom Karimov.
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16 Feb 2005 The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs.
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16 Feb 2005 The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
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16 Feb 2006 The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
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16 Feb 2013 A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town in Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
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16 Feb 2015 A CSX train crashes in Mount Carbon, West Virginia resulting in large fires.
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