About February 16

February 16, 2025 is the 47th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 318 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.

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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 366 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On February 16

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1934 –
    The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund.
  • 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.
  • 1957 –
    The “Toddlers’ Truce”, a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1985 –
    Hezbollah is founded.
  • 1986 –
    The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
  • 1987 –
    The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed “Ivan the Terrible” in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
  • 2005 –
    The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
  • 2005 –
    The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labor dispute.
  • 2006 –
    The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

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