February, 16th in History

[Spiritus Temporis]

Events

Wednesday 16, 2005:
2005 - The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labour dispute.

Tuesday 16, 1999:
In Jasper, Texas, the trial begins of John William King who is accused of dragging African American James Byrd Jr. to death in an apparent hate crime.

Monday 16, 1998:
China Airlines Flight 676 crashed into a residential area near by Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people, included all 196 on board and six on the ground.

Saturday 16, 1991:
Gulf War: U.S. and U.K. war planes bomb the suburbs of Baghdad, injuring at least 11 civilians and killing three others.

Thursday 16, 1989:
Pan Am flight 103: Investigators announce that the cause of the crash was a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player.

Monday 16, 1987:
The trial of John Demjanjuk, who was accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.

Sunday 16, 1986:
The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.

Wednesday 16, 1983:
The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 71 people in Australia's worst ever fires.

Thursday 16, 1978:
The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).

Wednesday 16, 1972:
NBA basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scores 30,000th point.

Monday 16, 1970:
Joe Frazier starts a heavyweight world boxing champion winning streak with the knock out of Jimmy Ellis in five rounds.

Friday 16, 1968:
In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.

Thursday 16, 1961:
Explorer 9 launched. (See Explorer program)

Monday 16, 1959:
Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after President Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.

Friday 16, 1945:
1945 - American forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula.

Tuesday 16, 1943:
World War II: Russia reconquers Kharkov.

Friday 16, 1940:
Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark, with 299 British prisoners, was boarded in neutral Norwegian waters by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack and the prisoners set free, a breach of Norwegian neutrality at the beginning of World War II.

Tuesday 16, 1937:
Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon.

Sunday 16, 1936:
Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.

Friday 16, 1934:
Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund

Friday 16, 1923:
Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

Saturday 16, 1918:
Lithuania declares its independence from both Russia and Germany.

Thursday 16, 1899:
President Félix Faure of France dies in office.

Friday 16, 1883:
Ladies Home Journal is published for the first time.

Sunday 16, 1868:
In New York City the Jolly Corks organization is renamed the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE).

Friday 16, 1866:
Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes the British Secretary of State for War

Sunday 16, 1862:
American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.

Monday 16, 1857:
The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established. in Washington, DC becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf.

Monday 16, 1852:
Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.

Friday 16, 1838:
Weenen Massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal were killed by Zulus.

Thursday 16, 1804:
First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate Philadelphia.

Friday 16, 1742:
Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.

Thursday 16, 1279:
Afonso III of Portugal dies. His son Denis succeeds the Portuguese throne.

Tuesday 16, 1249:
Andrew of Longjumeau was dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols.

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/16-february/on-this-day.html


People born on February 16

1980:
Ashley Lelie, American football player (b: February 16, 1980) (Biography of Ashley Lelie)

1979:
Valentino Rossi, Italian race car driver (b: February 16, 1979) (Biography of Valentino Rossi)

1977:
Ian Clarke, Irish computer programmer (b: February 16, 1977) (Biography of Ian Clarke)
Ahman Green, American football player (b: February 16, 1977) (Biography of Ahman Green)

1976:
Kyo, Japanese singer (Dir en grey) (b: February 16, 1976) (Biography of Kyo)

1975:
Aikawa Nanase, Japanese musician (b: February 16, 1975) (Biography of Aikawa Nanase)

1973:
Cathy Freeman, Australian athlete (b: February 16, 1973) (Biography of Cathy Freeman)

1972:
Jerome Bettis, American football player (b: February 16, 1972) (Biography of Jerome Bettis)
Taylor Hawkins, American musician (Foo Fighters) (b: February 16, 1972) (Biography of Taylor Hawkins)

1967:
John Valentin, baseball player (b: February 16, 1967) (Biography of John Valentin)

1964:
Christopher Eccleston, English actor (b: February 16, 1964) (Biography of Christopher Eccleston)

1963:
Dave Lombardo, Cuban drummer (Slayer) (b: February 16, 1963) (Biography of Dave Lombardo)

1961:
Andy Taylor, English musician (Duran Duran) (b: February 16, 1961) (Biography of Andy Taylor)

1960:
Pete Willis, guitarist (Def Leppard) (b: February 16, 1960) (Biography of Pete Willis)

1959:
John McEnroe, American tennis player (b: February 16, 1959) (Biography of John McEnroe)

1958:
Ice-T, American singer, songwriter, and actor (b: February 16, 1958) (Biography of Ice-T)
Lisa Loring, American actress (b: February 16, 1958) (Biography of Lisa Loring)

1957:
LeVar Burton, American actor (b: February 16, 1957) (Biography of LeVar Burton)
James Ingram, American singer (b: February 16, 1957) (Biography of James Ingram)

1954:
Iain Banks, Scottish author (b: February 16, 1954) (Biography of Iain Banks)

1951:
William Katt, American actor (b: February 16, 1951) (Biography of William Katt)

1950:
Peter Hain, British politician (b: February 16, 1950) (Biography of Peter Hain)

1945:
Frank Welker, American voice actor (b: February 16, 1945) (Biography of Frank Welker)
Jeremy Bulloch, English actor (b: February 16, 1945) (Biography of Jeremy Bulloch)

1944:
Richard Ford, American novelist (b: February 16, 1944) (Biography of Richard Ford)

1942:
Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader (b: February 16, 1942) (Biography of Kim Jong-il)

1938:
John Corigliano, American composer (b: February 16, 1938) (Biography of John Corigliano)
Barry Primus, American actor (b: February 16, 1938) (Biography of Barry Primus)

1937:
Yuri Manin, Russian mathematician (b: February 16, 1937) (Biography of Yuri Manin)

1936:
Jill Kinmont, American skier (b: February 16, 1936) (Biography of Jill Kinmont)

1935:
Sonny Bono, singer, music producer, television producer, and U.S. Congressman (b: February 16, 1935 ; d: January 5, 1998) (Biography of Sonny Bono)

1932:
Harry Goz, American actor (b: February 16, 1932 ; d: September 6, 2003) (Biography of Harry Goz)
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, President of Sierra Leone (b: February 16, 1932) (Biography of Ahmad Tejan Kabbah)

1931:
Otis Blackwell, American songwriter and singer (b: February 16, 1931) (Biography of Otis Blackwell)

1929:
Gerhard Hanappi, Austrian football player (b: February 16, 1929) (Biography of Gerhard Hanappi)

1927:
June Brown, British actress (b: February 16, 1927) (Biography of June Brown)

1926:
John Schlesinger, English film director (b: February 16, 1926 ; d: July 25, 2003) (Biography of John Schlesinger)

1921:
Vera-Ellen, American actress (b: February 16, 1921 ; d: August 30, 1981) (Biography of Vera-Ellen)
Araucaria, British crossword compiler (b: February 16, 1921) (Biography of Araucaria (compiler))

1909:
Jeffrey Lynn, American actor (b: February 16, 1909) (Biography of Jeffrey Lynn)
Hugh Beaumont, American actor (b: February 16, 1909) (Biography of Hugh Beaumont)

1904:
George F. Kennan, American political policy-maker (b: February 16, 1904 ; d: March 17, 2005) (Biography of George F. Kennan)

1903:
Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (b: February 16, 1903 ; d: October 30, 1978) (Biography of Edgar Bergen)

1901:
Chester Morris, American film actor (b: February 16, 1901) (Biography of Chester Morris)

1898:
Katharine Cornell, American actress (b: February 16, 1898) (Biography of Katharine Cornell)

1886:
Van Wyck Brooks, American historian and critic (b: February 16, 1886) (Biography of Van Wyck Brooks)

1884:
Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (b: February 16, 1884) (Biography of Robert J. Flaherty)

1876:
George Macaulay Trevelyan, English historian (b: February 16, 1876) (Biography of George Macaulay Trevelyan)

1838:
Henry Adams, American historian and novelist (b: February 16, 1838 ; d: March 27, 1918) (Biography of Henry Adams)

1834:
Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (b: February 16, 1834) (Biography of Ernst Haeckel)

1826:
Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (b: February 16, 1826) (Biography of Joseph Victor von Scheffel)
Julia Grant, First Lady of the United States (b: February 16, 1826) (Biography of Julia Grant)

1824:
Peter Kozler, Slovenian cartographer and geographer (b: February 16, 1824) (Biography of Peter Kozler)

1822:
Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (b: February 16, 1822) (Biography of Francis Galton)

1821:
Heinrich Barth, German explorer (b: February 16, 1821 ; d: November 25, 1865) (Biography of Heinrich Barth)

1761:
Charles Pichegru, French general (b: February 16, 1761 ; d: April 15, 1804) (Biography of Charles Pichegru)

1643:
John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (b: February 16, 1643 ; d: February 2, 1714) (Biography of John Sharp)

1620:
Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg (b: February 16, 1620) (Biography of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg)

1543:
Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b: February 16, 1543 ; d: October 12, 1590) (Biography of Kano Eitoku)

1519:
Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (b: February 16, 1519 ; d: August 24, 1572) (Biography of Gaspard de Coligny)

1497:
Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (b: February 16, 1497 ; d: April 19, 1560) (Biography of Philipp Melanchthon)

1222:
Nichiren, monk, founder of Nichiren Buddhism (b: February 16, 1222) (Biography of Nichiren)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/16-february/births.html

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People who died on February 16

2005:
Nicole DeHuff. American actress (b: January 6, 1974 ; d: February 16, 2005) (Biography of Nicole DeHuff)

2004:
Shirley Strickland, Australian athlete (b: July 18, 1925 ; d: February 16, 2004) (Biography of Shirley Strickland)
Doris Troy (d: February 16, 2004) (Biography of Doris Troy)

2002:
Walter Winterbottom (d: February 16, 2002) (Biography of Walter Winterbottom)

2001:
Bob Buhl, baseball player (b: August 12, 1928 ; d: February 16, 2001) (Biography of Bob Buhl)
William Masters (d: February 16, 2001) (Biography of William Masters)

2000:
Karsten Solheim (d: February 16, 2000) (Biography of Karsten Solheim)

1996:
Edmund G. Brown (d: February 16, 1996) (Biography of Edmund G. Brown)
Brownie McGhee, American musician (b: November 30, 1915 ; d: February 16, 1996) (Biography of Brownie McGhee)
Roger Bowen (d: February 16, 1996) (Biography of Roger Bowen)

1994:
Andrei Chikatilo, Russian serial killer (b: October 16, 1936 ; d: February 16, 1994) (Biography of Andrei Chikatilo)

1992:
Angela Carter, English novelist and journalist (b: May 7, 1940 ; d: February 16, 1992) (Biography of Angela Carter)
Herman Wold (d: February 16, 1992) (Biography of Herman Wold)

1990:
Keith Haring, American graphical artist (b: May 4, 1958 ; d: February 16, 1990) (Biography of Keith Haring)

1980:
Erich Hückel, German physicist (b: August 9, 1896 ; d: February 16, 1980) (Biography of Erich Hückel)

1978:
E. Roland Harriman, American financier (b: December 24, 1895 ; d: February 16, 1978) (Biography of E. Roland Harriman)

1975:
Morgan Taylor, American athlete (b: April 17, 1903 ; d: February 16, 1975) (Biography of Morgan Taylor)

1974:
John Garand (d: February 16, 1974) (Biography of John Garand)

1967:
Antonio Moreno, Spanish-born actor (b: September 26, 1887 ; d: February 16, 1967) (Biography of Antonio Moreno)

1932:
Ferdinand Buisson, French recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b: December 20, 1841 ; d: February 16, 1932) (Biography of Ferdinand Buisson)

1928:
Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (b: March 9, 1856 ; d: February 16, 1928) (Biography of Eddie Foy)

1912:
Nikolai of Japan (d: February 16, 1912) (Biography of Nikolai of Japan)

1907:
Giosue Carducci, Italian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b: July 27, 1835 ; d: February 16, 1907) (Biography of Giosue Carducci)

1898:
Thomas Bracken, New Zealand writer (b: December 21, 1843 ; d: February 16, 1898) (Biography of Thomas Bracken)

1754:
Richard Mead, English physician (b: August 11, 1673 ; d: February 16, 1754) (Biography of Richard Mead)

1721:
James Craggs the Younger, English politician (b: April 9, 1686 ; d: February 16, 1721) (Biography of James Craggs the Younger)

1710:
Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes (b: June 10, 1632 ; d: February 16, 1710) (Biography of Esprit Fléchier)

1560:
Jean du Bellay (d: February 16, 1560) (Biography of Jean du Bellay)

1531:
Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b: December 10, 1452 ; d: February 16, 1531) (Biography of Johannes Stöffler)

1279:
King Afonso III of Portugal (b: May 5, 1210 ; d: February 16, 1279) (Biography of Afonso III of Portugal)

Source: http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/16-february/deaths.html