Hisdates•ComPage 8: Historical Events In February - 16
Sunday, 15 June 2025
1965 Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors on February - 16. 
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 On this day in history france performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1966 Hendrik W Tilanus, artillery officer/leader (CHU 1939-63), dies at 81 on February - 16.
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 Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on this day in history.
1968 On February - 16 country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL
1968 On February - 16 elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"
1968 Healey Willan, composer, dies at 87 on February - 16.
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 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 West Indies vs Australia at Kingston, first time since 1955 without Sobers on this day in history.
1973 William Calley's murder conviction for the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam on February - 16.
1973 Pieter Van der Bijl, cricketer (outstanding S Af bat in 1938-39), dies on this day in history.
1977 On February - 16 uSSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
1978 The first Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago) on this day in history.
1979 George Harrison releases "Blow Away" on February - 16.
1979 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR on this day in history.
1979 Louise Allbritton, actress (Celia-Stage Door), dies at 58 on this day in history.
1980 Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France on this day in history.
1980 Eric Heiden skates 5k in 7 02.29 (Olympics Record) on this day in history.
1981 Howard Hanson, composer, dies at 84 on this day in history.
1982 On this day in history agatha Barbara elected as first female President of Malta
1982 Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad on this day in history.
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 February - 16.
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
1984 On this day in history 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 February - 16 livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champion
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