About February 16
February 16, 2023 is the 47th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 318 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 359 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On February 16
- 116 –Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia.
- 1249 –Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with Mongol Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
- 1742 –Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
- 1804 –First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
- 1852 –Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
- 1866 –Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
- 1936 –Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
- 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.
- 1961 –Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
- 1961 –The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered.
- 1968 –In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
- 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.
- 1991 –Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
- 1999 –Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
- 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.
- 2006 –The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
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