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The 16t o Februar is the 47t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 318 days ti come (319 in lowp years).
Events
- 1862 - American Ceevil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
- 1881 - The Canadian Paceefic Railway is incorporatit.
- 1899 - Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, the first fitbaw team in Iceland, is foondit.
- 1918 - Lithuanie declares unthirldom.
- 1936 - The Popular Front wins elections in Spain.
- 1952 - Greece an Turkey jyn NATO.
- 1957 - Egyp wins the first Africae Cup o Naitions in fitbaa.
- 1959 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier o Cuba.
- 1961 - Explorer 9 is launched.
- 1983 - The Ash Wadensday bush fires in Victoria an Sooth Australie kill 75 fowk.
- 1985 - Hezbollah is foondit.
- 1990 - Sam Nujoma is electit as the first Preses o Namibie.
- 2005 - The Kyoto Protocol comes intae force.
- 2013 - A bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, kills 80 fowk.
- 2017 - A bomb attack on a Sufi shrine in Sindh, Soothren Pakistan, kills at least 80 fowk.
Births
- 1497 - Philip Melanchthon, German reformer (d. 1560)
- 1620 - Frederick William, Elector o Brandenburg (d. 1688)
- 1834 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist (d. 1919)
- 1848 - Octave Mirbeau, French writer (d. 1917)
- 1921 - Hua Guofeng, Cheenese politeecian (d. 2008)
- 1923 - Samuel Willenberg, Pols-Israeli ingineer, penter, sculptor an Holocaust survivor (d. 2016)
- 1926 - Margot Frank, sister o Anne Frank (d. 1945)
- 1941 - Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader (d. 2011)
- 1954 - Iain Banks, Scots writer (d. 2013)
- 1955 - Bruce Crawford, Scots politeecian
- 1958 - Ice-T, American muisicker an actor
- 1959 - John McEnroe, American tennis player
- 1964 - Bebeto, Brazilian fitbawer
- 1964 - Christopher Eccleston, Inglis actor
- 1965 - Adama Barrow, Preses o the Gambie
- 1971 - Amanda Holden, Inglis actress an telly personality
- 1979 - Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer
- 1986 - Diego Godín, Uruguayan fitbawer
- 1989 - Elizabeth Olsen, American actress
- 1990 - The Weeknd, Canadian sangster, sangwriter an record producer
- 1994 - Ava Max, American sangster an sangwriter
Daiths
- 1624 - Ludovic Stewart, 2nt Duke o Lennox, Scots nobleman an politeecian (b. 1574)
- 1907 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer an poet (b. 1835)
- 1917 - Octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848)
- 1932 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist (b. 1841)
- 1990 - Keith Haring, American artist (b. 1958)
- 1996 - Pat Brown, American politeecian (b. 1905)
- 2016 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions (b. 1922)
Halidays
- Naitional Day o Lithuanie
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