SomeFacts | February 16

On this day - February 16

1249 — Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as ...

1270 — The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the ...

1630 — Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was ...

1646 — Battle of Torrington, Devon: The last major battle of the ...

1699 — First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, ...

1742 — Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime ...

1796 — Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) falls to the British, ...

1804 — First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the ...

1862 — American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort ...

1866 — Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes ...

1881 — The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of ...

1899 — Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag ...

1900 — The Southern Cross expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink ...

1918 — The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of ...

1923 — Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh ...

1930 — The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.

1934 — The Commission of Government is officially sworn in; ending 79 ...

1934 — The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social ...

1936 — The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.

1937 — Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.

1940 — World War II: Altmark incident: The German tanker Altmark is ...

1942 — World War II: Attack on Aruba, first World War II German shots ...

1942 — World War II: In Athens, the Greek People's Liberation ...

1943 — World War II: In the early phases of the Third Battle of ...

1945 — The Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945, the first ...

1945 — World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the ...

1959 — Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio ...

1960 — The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, ...

1961 — Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.

1962 — Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and ...

1962 — The Great Sheffield Gale impacts the United Kingdom, killing ...

1968 — Civil Air Transport Flight 010 crashes near Shongshan Airport ...

1968 — In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone ...

1978 — The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in ...

1983 — The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia ...

1984 — Iran launches Operation Dawn 5, a major offensive during the ...

1985 — Hezbollah is founded.

1986 — China Airlines Flight 2265 crashes into the Pacific Ocean near ...

1986 — The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the ...

1991 — Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in ...

1996 — A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides ...

1998 — China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential ...

2000 — Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento ...

2005 — The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–05 regular ...

2005 — The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ...

2006 — The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is ...

2013 — A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan ...

2021 — Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia ...