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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1943 –
    World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov.
  • 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.
  • 1968 –
    In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
  • 1983 –
    The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
  • 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.
  • 1991 –
    Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
  • 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.
  • 2006 –
    The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

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