February 16: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

February 16th marks the 47th day of the Gregorian calendar year. There are 318 days remaining until the end of the year (or 319 days in case of leap years). People born on this day are under the sign of Aquarius. Famous birthdays on this day include Valérie Trierweiler (1965), The Weeknd (1990) and Eckhart Tolle (1948).
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Holidays

Saint Juliana
Saint Lucilla
Remembrance of Lambertus
Saint Jeremias
Saints Daniel, Samuel and Elias
Kyoto Protocol Day (2005)
Lithuania - Independence Day (1918)
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Events

2019 Syrian Civil War: Battle of Baghuz Fawqani - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces took control of Al-Baghuz Fawqani after the surrender of ISIL militants.
2018 Boko Haram insurgency - Three suicide bombers attack a Konduga fish market, Borno, Nigeria.
2017 2017 Sehwan suicide bombing. At least 70 people were killed and over 150 others injured in the suicide bombing at Lal Shahbaz Qalandar Shrine, Sehwan in Sindh, Pakistan. 50 of those injured are in critical condition. A medical emergency has been declared at the hospitals in Hyderabad, Dadu, and Jamshoro. (Dawn News),
2016 Iraqi Civil War (2014-2017: Three Americans kidnapped last month in Baghdad were released by the Iraqi National Intelligence Service.
2015 Libyan Civil War (2014-present: Egypt bombs Islamic State targets in Iraq and Levant in Derna, Libya after the execution of 21 Coptic Christians.
2014 Syrian Civil War: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah calls for other sectarian forces from the Arab world to leave Syria. He said that Hezbollah would "not remain" in Syria if they did. (Reuters) A Syrian child was injured in clashes between the rebels and Syrian Army near the Israeli border is taken to an Israeli hospital for emergency treatment.
2013 February 2013, Quetta bombing: A bomb explodes in a Quetta Town market, killing at least 84 people and injuring more than 190 others. The explosion occurred in Pakistan's Quetta on the outskirts. The majority of victims are from the Twelver Shia Hazara minority, which was attacked by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi a month prior. Later, the organization claimed responsibility for the explosions.
2012 Five militants were killed in a drone attack by the United States in Spalga, Pakistan in north Waziristan.
2011 Piracy
2010 Assassination of a top Hamas military commander in Dubai
2009 Section 76 of United Kingdom's Counter-Terrorism Act (2008)mdasha law criminalizes publication information about Armed Forces, Security Service or Government Communications Headquartersmdashis
2008 According to reports, 37 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a Pakistani tribal area after attending a meeting with the Pakistan Peoples Party.
2007 The G8 countries and South Africa are in agreement with the "Washington Declaration", which proposes a global carbon emissions trading system that will replace the Kyoto Protocol by 2009.
2006 The United States Army has decommissioned the last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, (MASH).
2005 Mohamed ElBaradei (head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA) states that there is no evidence suggesting Iran is building nuclear weapons.
2004 Temple in Jerusalem: A wall that was built around 800 years ago and holding back a portion of the hill that juts out from the Western Wall, leading to the Mughrabim Gate, partially collapses. According to authorities, the earthquake could be to blame.
2003 Iraq has found a missile that is larger than the UN sanctioned limit.
2002 According to Rowan Scarborough's book Rumsfeld's War, George W. Bush signed a secret directive from the National Security Council establishing the goals for going to war against Iraq. The Guardian
2001 British and U.S. forces bomb Iraqi air defense networks with bombing raids. Three people are killed in a suburb of Baghdad.
2000 At the University of Toronto, Archbishop Desmond Tutu gives a speech.
1999 In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islom Karimov.
1998 Tellabs Inc acquires Coherent Communications Systems for $670 million.
1997 GTE Suncoast Senior Golf Classic
1996 1996 Maryland train collision: A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
1994 6.5 earthquake strikes SE Sumatra, kills 200
1993 Sharon Disney, adopted daughter of Walt and Lillian Disney, dies of complications from cancer.
1992 Former silver Goodyear blimps are now painted yellow and blue.
1991 Dutch PPR, Political Party Radicals, disbands.
1990 Keith Haring, American artist/cartoonist (brilliant baby), dies of AIDS at age 31 (born 1954).
1989 Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage
1988 First documented combat action by US military advisors in El Salvador.
1987 John Demjanjuk, accused of being Ivan the Terrible trial begins
1986 French air force bombs Ouadi Doum airport in Chad
1985 New Jersey Devils score their fastest hat trick in 42 seconds
1984 New Jersey Devils' first overtime goal, Jan Ludvig beats Hartford Whalers 6-5.
1983 Nellie massacre: over 2,000 people, mostly Bangladeshi Muslims, are massacred in Assam, India, during the Assam agitation.
1982 Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad
1980 Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France.
1979 George Harrison releases Blow Away
1978 The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).
1975 Washington Capitals' first NHL shutout, beating Kansas City Scouts 3-0.
1973 The Court of Appeal of England and Wales rules that the ''Sunday Times'' can publish articles on Thalidomide and Distillers Company, despite ongoing legal actions by parents (the decision is overturned in July by the House of Lords).
1972 Wilt Chamberlain hit 30,000 point mark during a game with Phoenix Suns
1971 In Italy, a local parliament elects the city of Catanzaro as the capital of Calabria residents of Reggio di Calabria riot for 5 days because of the decision.
1970 Joe Frazier knocks out Jimmy Ellis in five rounds for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown.
1968 America's first 9-1-1 phone system goes into service in Haleyville, Alabama.
1967 Red Ruffing selected to baseball Hall of Fame.
1966 Bob Cowper makes 307 versus England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, 727 minute s, 20 fours.
1965 Baker Street opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 313 performances
1964 Foxy opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 72 performances
1963 C and A Building in Amsterdam burns down.
1962 US Open Tennis: Jimmy Bostwick defeats brother Pete to win.
1961 US satellite Explorer 9 is launched.
1960 US nuclear submarine USS Triton sets off on underwater round-world trip.
1958 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Saint Petersburg Golf Open.
1957 The ''Toddlers' Truce'', a controversial television close down between 6.00pm and 7.00pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
1956 Only a little more than four months after the release of the 70mm version of ''Oklahoma!'', the film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's ''Carousel'', starring Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones, is released in Cinemascope 55. MacRae and Jones had previously starred in ''Oklahoma!'' ''Carousel'', intended for showing in 55mm, ends up being shown only in 35mm.
1955 Nearly 100 die in a fire at a home for the elderly in Yokohama, Japan.
1954 WNEM TV channel 5 in Bay City, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 The Pakistan Academy of Sciences is established in Pakistan.
1952 Hall of Famer Honus Wagner, age 77, retires; Pittsburgh Pirates retire his #33.
1951 San Francisco City Hall dome fire
1948 Miranda, famous moon of Uranus, photographed for first time.
1946 Duchess Misbehaves closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 5 performances
1945 US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
1943 Sign on Munich facade: Out with Hitler! Long live freedom! done by White Rose student group, caught on 2 / 18, beheaded on 2 / 22
1942 German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery.
1940 British search plane finds German Altmark off Norway
1938 US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized.
1937 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers.
1936 Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
1934 Over Texas, USA, a pilot swerves to avoid crashing with a fireball.
1933 Catholic newspaper Germania warns against Nazis / communists
1931 Extreme right wing Pehr Evind Svinhufvud is elected President of Finland.
1929 KID-AM in Idaho Falls ID begins radio transmissions
1927 US restores diplomatic relations with Turkey.
1926 Suzanne Lenglen defeats Helen Wills in Tennis at Cannes France
1924 February 26 ampndash Dock strikes break out in various U.S. harbors.
1923 US female Figure Skating championship won by Theresa Weld Blanchard.
1918 The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
1916 Russian troops conquer Erzurum Armenia.
1913 President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico.
1912 VSV soccer team forms in Ijmuiden.
1909 Serbia mobilizes against Austria-Hungary.
1905 At Haulbowline Base in Ireland, two explosions on board HM Submarine A5, due to petrol fumes after refueling, kill six of the eleven crew.
1903 -59 degrees F (-51 degrees C), Pokegama Dam Minnesota (state record).
1900 Stanley Cup: MontrTal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, three games to 1.
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