About February 16
February 16, 2022 is the 47th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 318 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 340 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 16
- 1249 –Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with Mongol Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
- 1646 –Battle of Torrington, Devon – the last major battle of the first English Civil War.
- 1742 –Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
- 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.
- 1899 –Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland’s first football club is founded.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov.
- 1945 –World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
- 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 –The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered.
- 1978 –The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).
- 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.
- 1999 –In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.
- 1999 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rabbit in Chinese astrology.
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