Page 8: Historical Events In February - 16

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

1966  On this day in history 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  France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria on February - 16.   

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

1967  On this day in history operation River Raider begins in Mekong Delta   

1967  On February - 16 smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55   

1968  Beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on February - 16.   

1968  On this day in history 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 February - 16.   

1972  German mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed on February - 16.   

1972  On February - 16 test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe West Indies vs New Zealand Kingston, 214 & 100   

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 this day in history.   

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

1977  USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR on February - 16.   

1978  On February - 16 the first Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago)   

1979  George Harrison releases "Blow Away" on this day in history.   

1979  USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR on this day in history.   

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  On February - 16 eric Heiden skates 5k in 7 02.29 (Olympics Record)   

1981  On this day in history howard Hanson, composer, dies at 84   

1982  On February - 16 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  Bill Johnson becomes first American to win Olympics downhill skiing gold on February - 16.   

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 February - 16.   

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

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

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1032  On this day in history birth of emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067)   

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

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

1519  On this day in history birth of gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral   

1543  Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590) was born on this day in history.   

1620  On February - 16 birth of frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia   

1643  On this day in history 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  On this day in history abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari, islamic historian, dies at 83   

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

1279  On February - 16 afonso III, King of Portugal (1248-79), dies   

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  Everhard/Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Liege, dies at 65 on February - 16.   

1560  Death of Jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat on this day in history.