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
- 116 –Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia.
- 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.
- 1866 –Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
- 1899 –Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland’s first football club is founded.
- 1923 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Pig in Chinese astrology.
- 1934 –The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund.
- 1936 –Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
- 1957 –The “Toddlers’ Truce”, a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
- 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 –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).
- 1983 –The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
- 1986 –The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
- 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.
- 1999 –Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
- 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.
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