Hisdates•Com
HomeFebruary 16 in History: Historical Events, Birthdays, Deaths & Holidays
Thursday, 08 October 2026
1927 Noel Coward's "Marquise," premieres in London. 
1929 KID-AM in Idaho Falls ID begins radio transmissions.
1931 Extreme right wing Svinhufvud is recorded as becoming President of Finland.
1932 Patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree
1932 1st patent issued for a tree, to James Markham for a peach tree.
1933 Catholic newspaper Germania warns against Nazis/communists
1933 Archie Jackson, cricketer (of TB, Aus bat too briefly Avg 47.4), dies
1934 Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund.
1934 Eduard Bagritsky, [Dzjubin], Russ poet/journalist, dies at 38.
1936 4th Winter Olympics games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1936 In this year, Spanish Frente Popular (People's Front) claims elections
1936 4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1936 Tommy Ward, S African cricket wicket keeper (23 Tests), electrocuted
1937 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers.
1937 Nylon is patented.
1938 US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized
1938 Otto zur Linde, German author (Lieder of the Leids), dies at 64.
1939 Jura Soyfer, writer, dies at 26
1940 British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway.
1940 RCAF's No. 110 Army Cooperation Squadron sails for Britain; inaugural of 48 squadrons to go overseas.
1942 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery
1942 Massacre of 22 members of the Australian Army Nursing Service and other survivors of the SS Vyner Brooke, on Banka Island, Straits of Sumatra.
1943 -32º F (-36º C), Falls Village CT (state record).
1943 British premier Winston Churchill gets pneumonia
1943 Red army conquers Kharkov
1943 Sign on Munich facade "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22
1943 Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa.
1943 -32°F (-36°C), Falls Village, Connecticut (state record).
1944 Edmund von Borck, composer, dies at 37.
1945 American troops begin their reoccupation of the Philippine island of Corregidor during WWII.
1945 Venezuela declares war on Nazi-Germany.
1945 US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
1945 Billy Frank, cricketer (Test S Afr v Eng 1896, 5 and 2, 1-52), dies.
1946 inaugural commercially designed helicopter tested, Bridgeport CT
« Previous Page | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Next Page »
