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Page 8: Historical Events In February - 16

Tuesday, 19 August 2025

1965  On February - 16 pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1966  Bob Cowper makes 307 vs England at the MCG, 727 minute s, 20 fours on February - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1966  On February - 16 end of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Australia WK  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1966  France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1966  On February - 16 hendrik W Tilanus, artillery officer/leader (CHU 1939-63), dies at 81  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1967  Operation River Raider begins in Mekong Delta on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1967  Smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55 on February - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1968  Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1968  On February - 16 country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1968  On this day in history elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1968  Healey Willan, composer, dies at 87 on February - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1970  Joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown on February - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1972  On this day in history german mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1972  Test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe West Indies vs New Zealand Kingston, 214 & 100 on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1973  On February - 16 west Indies vs Australia at Kingston, first time since 1955 without Sobers  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1973  William Calley's murder conviction for the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1973  On this day in history pieter Van der Bijl, cricketer (outstanding S Af bat in 1938-39), dies  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1977  On this day in history uSSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1978  The first Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1979  On February - 16 george Harrison releases "Blow Away"  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1979  On February - 16 uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1979  Louise Allbritton, actress (Celia-Stage Door), dies at 58 on February - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1980  Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1980  Eric Heiden skates 5k in 7 02.29 (Olympics Record) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1981  On February - 16 howard Hanson, composer, dies at 84  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1982  Agatha Barbara elected as first female President of Malta on February - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1982  Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad on February - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1982  On this day in history lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1984  Bill Johnson becomes first American to win Olympics downhill skiing gold on February - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1984  On this day in history canada's Brian Orser wins Silver Medal in Figure Skating at the same Olympics; highest Olympic award ever to a Canadian male  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1984  On February - 16 in Sarajevo Bosnia Canada's Gaetan Boucher wins second Gold Medal in Speedskating at the 14th Winter Games  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1984  Ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69 on February - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1985  On this day in history livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champion  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

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Famous People Born On This Day In History

1032  Emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067) was born on February - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1075  On this day in history birth of ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1497  On February - 16 birth of philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer (Augsburgse Confessie)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1519  On February - 16 birth of gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1543  Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590) was born on February - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1620  Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1643  On this day in history birth of john Sharp, English Archbishop of York (d. 1714)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1669  Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter was born on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

Famous Deaths In February - 16

Famous People Died On This Day In History

0309  On this day in history death of pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

0923  On this day in history abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari, islamic historian, dies at 83  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1247  On February - 16 death of heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1279  Afonso III, King of Portugal (1248-79), dies on February - 16.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1391  Johannes V Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium (1341-91), dies on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1531  Death of Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452) on this day in history.  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1538  On February - 16 everhard/Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Liege, dies at 65  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard

1560  On February - 16 death of jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat  Click To Send On Messenger Click To Send On WhatsappCopy This To Clipboard


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