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.
- 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.
- 1852 –Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
- 1862 –American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
- 1904 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1945 –World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
- 1957 –The “Toddlers’ Truce”, a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
- 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.
- 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 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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