Page 8: Historical Events In February - 16

1965  Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors on this day in history.   

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  On February - 16 france performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria   

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

1967  On February - 16 operation River Raider begins in Mekong Delta   

1967  On this day in history smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55   

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  On February - 16 country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL   

1968  Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art" on February - 16.   

1968  Healey Willan, composer, dies at 87 on this day in history.   

1970  Joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown on February - 16.   

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  German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed on this day in history.   

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  On February - 16 william Calley's murder conviction for the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam   

1973  On this day in history pieter Van der Bijl, cricketer (outstanding S Af bat in 1938-39), dies   

1977  On this day in history uSSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR   

1978  On this day in history the first Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago)   

1979  On this day in history george Harrison releases "Blow Away"   

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

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

1980  Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France on February - 16.   

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

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

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

1982  Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad on February - 16.   

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  Canada's Brian Orser wins Silver Medal in Figure Skating at the same Olympics; highest Olympic award ever to a Canadian male on this day in history.   

1984  In Sarajevo Bosnia Canada's Gaetan Boucher wins second Gold Medal in Speedskating at the 14th Winter Games on this day in history.   

1984  On this day in history ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69   

1985  Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champion on February - 16.   

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1032  On February - 16 birth of emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067)   

1075  On this day in history birth of ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet   

1497  On this day in history birth of philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer (Augsburgse Confessie)   

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

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

0309  Death of Pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded on February - 16.   

0923  On February - 16 abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari, islamic historian, dies at 83   

1247  On February - 16 death of heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)   

1279  Afonso III, King of Portugal (1248-79), dies on February - 16.   

1391  Johannes V Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium (1341-91), dies on February - 16.   

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

1538  On this day in history everhard/Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Liege, dies at 65   

1560  On this day in history death of jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat