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Monday, 16 February 2026
1899 2nd quake in 7 days hits Yakutat Bay Alaska 
1899 In the Yakutat Bay, Alaska area, one of the 15 Largest Earthquakes in the United States, measured at 8.2.
1899 2nd quake in 7 days (8.6) hits Yakutat Bay Alaska.
1900 20.3 cm rainfall at Elk Point, South Dakota (state record)
1902 Utrecht soccer team UVV forms
1902 Toivo R Pekkanen, Finnish writer (Wegwerkers)
1905 Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes
1906 Lambertus "Bertus" van Lyre, composer/conductor (Hooglied)
1907 Fay Wray, US actress is born.
1908 Raymond Harry Warnow Scott, Bkln NY, orch leader (Your Hit Parade).
1910 Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber.
1912 Brother William Oliver Antoninus Everson, poet
1913 Cleveland Call and Post established
1913 George W Buckner, named minister to Liberia.
1913 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway.
1913 Cleveland Call and Post forms.
1913 Zeph[ania L] Mothopeng, pres South Afr Pan-African Congress (1986- ).
1914 Robert Wise, American director is born.
1914 Robert Wise, director (Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story).
1915 Edmond O'Brien, NYC, actor (Sam Benedict, Johnny Midnight).
1916 The suspension span ofQuebec Bridge over the St. Lawrence which was being lifted, buckled and fell into the river killing 10 - 12 workmen.
1916 Niall MacDermott, lawyer/politician
1916 Friedrich Gernsheim, composer, dies at 77
1917 Franfo Fortini, poet.
1918 Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2500 to the winners and $1000 each for the losers.
1919 NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing and 25000 WW I soldiers
1919 The Austrian Empire ends with the signing of the Treaty of Saint Germain
1919 Indian's Ray Caldwell no-hits Yankees 3-0.
1919 John Noorda, resistance fighter.
1920 Egbert van Paridon, Dutch actor/director (Assault).
1921 Cornelis A H Wagtho, student/resistance fighter.
1922 Largest Polo Grounds crowd see Meusel, Ruth and Gehrig consecutive HRs.
1922 Yma Súmac, Peruvian singer.
1922 Arpad Szendy, composer, dies at 59.
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