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February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 318 days remain until the end of the year (319 in leap years). Events Pre-1600 1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire. 1270 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse. 1601–1900 1630 – Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil. 1646 – Battle of Torrington, Devon: The last major battle of the First English Civil War. 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. 1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister. 1796 – Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) falls to the British, completing their invasion of Ceylon. 1804 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia. 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. 1881 – The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1). 1899 – Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded. 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. 1901–present 1918 – The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state. 1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. 1930 – The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA. 1934 – The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund. 1936 – The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election. 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. A total of 299 British prisoners are freed. 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. 1943 – World War II: In the early phases of the Third Battle of Kharkov, Red Army troops re-enter the city. 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. 1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1. 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. 1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched. 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. 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. 1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago). 1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75. 1985 – Hezbollah is founded. 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. 1991 – Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. 1996 – A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people. 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. 2000 – Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, killing all three aboard. 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. 2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army. 2013 – A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others. 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. Births Pre-1600 1222 – Nichiren, founder of Nichiren Buddhism (d. 1282) 1304 – Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür, Chinese emperor (d. 1332) 1331 – Coluccio Salutati, Italian political leader (d. 1406) 1419 – John I, Duke of Cleves (d. 1481) 1470 – Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1540) 1471 – Krishnadevaraya, emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire (d. 1529) 1497 – Philip Melanchthon, German astronomer, theologian, and academic (d. 1560) 1514 – Georg Joachim Rheticus, Austrian cartographer and instrument maker (d. 1574) 1519 – Gaspard II de Coligny, French admiral (d. 1572) 1543 – Kanō Eitoku, Japanese painter and educator (d. 1590) 1601–1900 1620 – Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (d. 1688) 1643 – John Sharp, English archbishop (d. 1714) 1698 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (d. 1758) 1727 – Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Austrian botanist, chemist, and mycologist (d. 1817) 1740 – Giambattista Bodoni, Italian publisher and engraver (d. 1813) 1761 – Jean-Charles Pichegru, French general (d. 1804) 1774 – Pierre Rode, French violinist and composer (d. 1830) 1786 – Maria Pavlovna, Russian Grand Duchess (d. 1859) 1802 – Phineas Quimby, American mystic and philosopher (d. 1866) 1804 – Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist and zoologist (d. 1885) 1812 – Henry Wilson, American colonel and politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (d. 1875) 1821 – Heinrich Barth, German explorer and scholar (d. 1865) 1822 – Francis Galton, English biologist and statistician (d. 1911) 1824 – Peter Kosler, Slovenian lawyer, geographer, and cartographer (d. 1879) 1826 – Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet and author (d. 1886) 1830 – Lars Hertervig, Norwegian painter (d. 1902) 1831 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (d. 1895) 1834 – Ernst Haeckel, German biologist.... 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