Page 8: Historical Events In February - 16

1965  On this day in history 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  End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Australia WK on February - 16.   

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

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

1967  Operation River Raider begins in Mekong Delta on February - 16.   

1967  Smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55 on this day in history.   

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

1968  Country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL on this day in history.   

1968  On this day in history elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"   

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

1970  On February - 16 joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown   

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 this day in history german mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed   

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

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

1979  On February - 16 george Harrison releases "Blow Away"   

1979  On this day in history uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR   

1979  On this day in history louise Allbritton, actress (Celia-Stage Door), dies at 58   

1980  On February - 16 continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France   

1980  Eric Heiden skates 5k in 7 02.29 (Olympics Record) on February - 16.   

1981  Howard Hanson, composer, dies at 84 on February - 16.   

1982  Agatha Barbara elected as first female President of Malta on this day in history.   

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

1982  On this day in history lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce   

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

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

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

1984  Ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69 on February - 16.   

1985  Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champion on this day in history.   

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1032  Emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067) was born on February - 16.   

1075  On February - 16 birth of ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet   

1497  Philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer (Augsburgse Confessie) was born on February - 16.   

1519  Gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral was born on February - 16.   

1543  Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590) was born on February - 16.   

1620  On this day in history birth of frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia   

1643  John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (d. 1714) was born on February - 16.   

1669  On February - 16 birth of arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter   

0309  Death of Pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded on this day in history.   

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 February - 16.   

1531  Death of Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452) on February - 16.   

1538  Everhard/Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Liege, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1560  Death of Jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat on February - 16.