Historical Events In February - 16

1965  On February - 16 pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors   

1966  On February - 16 bob Cowper makes 307 vs England at the MCG, 727 minute s, 20 fours   

1966  On February - 16 end of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Australia WK   

1966  France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria on this day in history.   

1966  On this day in history hendrik W Tilanus, artillery officer/leader (CHU 1939-63), dies at 81   

1967  Operation River Raider begins in Mekong Delta on this day in history.   

1967  On February - 16 smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55   

1968  Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on this day in history.   

1968  Country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL on February - 16.   

1968  On February - 16 elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"   

1968  On February - 16 healey Willan, composer, dies at 87   

1970  Joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown on this day in history.   

1971  Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, under opposition attack in the Commons, utters an apparently unparliamentary expression that he later describes as "fuddle-duddle" we all know what it really was on this day in history.   

1972  On February - 16 german mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed   

1972  On this day in history test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe West Indies vs New Zealand Kingston, 214 & 100   

1973  On February - 16 west Indies vs Australia at Kingston, first time since 1955 without Sobers   

1973  William Calley's murder conviction for the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam on February - 16.   

1973  On February - 16 pieter Van der Bijl, cricketer (outstanding S Af bat in 1938-39), dies   

1977  USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR on February - 16.   

1978  The first Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago) on February - 16.   

1979  George Harrison releases "Blow Away" on this day in history.   

1979  On February - 16 uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR   

1979  On February - 16 louise Allbritton, actress (Celia-Stage Door), dies at 58   

1980  On this day in history continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France   

1980  On this day in history eric Heiden skates 5k in 7 02.29 (Olympics Record)   

1981  Howard Hanson, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.   

1982  Agatha Barbara elected as first female President of Malta on February - 16.   

1982  On this day in history assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad   

1982  Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce on February - 16.   

1984  Bill Johnson becomes first American to win Olympics downhill skiing gold on this day in history.   

1984  On February - 16 canada's Brian Orser wins Silver Medal in Figure Skating at the same Olympics; highest Olympic award ever to a Canadian male   

1984  On February - 16 in Sarajevo Bosnia Canada's Gaetan Boucher wins second Gold Medal in Speedskating at the 14th Winter Games   

1984  On February - 16 ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69   

1985  On this day in history livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champion   

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1032  Emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067) was born on this day in history.   

1075  Ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet was born on this day in history.   

1497  Philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer (Augsburgse Confessie) was born on this day in history.   

1519  On February - 16 birth of gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral   

1543  Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590) was born on this day in history.   

1620  Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia was born on this day in history.   

1643  On February - 16 birth of john Sharp, English Archbishop of York (d. 1714)   

1669  Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter was born on February - 16.   

0309  On February - 16 death of pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded   

0923  On this day in history abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari, islamic historian, dies at 83   

1247  On this day in history death of heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)   

1279  Afonso III, King of Portugal (1248-79), dies on this day in history.   

1391  Johannes V Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium (1341-91), dies on this day in history.   

1531  On February - 16 death of johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452)   

1538  Everhard/Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Liege, dies at 65 on February - 16.   

1560  On February - 16 death of jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat