Historical Events In February - 16

1965  Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors on February - 16.  

1966  Bob Cowper makes 307 vs England at the MCG, 727 minute s, 20 fours on this day in history.  

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 this day in history.  

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 February - 16.  

1968  Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art" on this day in history.  

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 February - 16.  

1972  German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed on this day in history.  

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  On this day in history william Calley's murder conviction for the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam  

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 February - 16.  

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  Louise Allbritton, actress (Celia-Stage Door), dies at 58 on February - 16.  

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  On this day in history howard Hanson, composer, dies at 84  

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  Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce on this day in history.  

1984  On February - 16 bill Johnson becomes first American to win Olympics downhill skiing gold  

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

1984  Ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69 on this day in history.  

1985  On this day in history livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champion  

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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  On February - 16 birth of gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral  

1543  On this day in history birth of kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590)  

1620  Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia was born on February - 16.  

1643  On February - 16 birth of john Sharp, English Archbishop of York (d. 1714)  

1669  Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter was born on February - 16.  

0309  On February - 16 death of pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded  

0923  Abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari, islamic historian, dies at 83 on this day in history.  

1247  Death of Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204) on February - 16.  

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

1391  On February - 16 johannes V Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium (1341-91), dies  

1531  Death of Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452) on this day in history.  

1538  On February - 16 everhard/Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Liege, dies at 65  

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