About February 16
February 16, 2024 is the 47th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 319 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 348 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.
- 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.
- 1866 –Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
- 1904 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 1936 –Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
- 1937 –Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
- 1943 –World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov.
- 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.
- 1961 –The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered.
- 1962 –Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
- 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.
- 1999 –In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.
- 2005 –The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
- 2006 –The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
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