16 Februar

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The 16t o Februar is the 47t day o the year in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 318 days ti come (319 in lowp years).

Events

1961: Explorer 9

1862 - American Ceevil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1881 - The Canadian Paceefic Railway is incorporatit.
1899 - Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, the first fitbaw team in Iceland, is foondit.
1918 - Lithuanie declares unthirldom.
1936 - The Popular Front wins elections in Spain.
1952 - Greece an Turkey jyn NATO.
1957 - Egyp wins the first Africae Cup o Naitions in fitbaa.
1959 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier o Cuba.
1961 - Explorer 9 is launched.
1983 - The Ash Wadensday bush fires in Victoria an Sooth Australie kill 75 fowk.
1985 - Hezbollah is foondit.
1990 - Sam Nujoma is electit as the first Preses o Namibie.
2005 - The Kyoto Protocol comes intae force.
2013 - A bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, kills 80 fowk.
2017 - A bomb attack on a Sufi shrine in Sindh, Soothren Pakistan, kills at least 80 fowk.

1497 - Philip Melanchthon, German reformer (d. 1560)
1620 - Frederick William, Elector o Brandenburg (d. 1688)
1834 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist (d. 1919)
1848 - Octave Mirbeau, French writer (d. 1917)
1921 - Hua Guofeng, Cheenese politeecian (d. 2008)
1923 - Samuel Willenberg, Pols-Israeli ingineer, penter, sculptor an Holocaust survivor (d. 2016)
1926 - Margot Frank, sister o Anne Frank (d. 1945)
1941 - Kim Jong-il, North Korean leader (d. 2011)
1954 - Iain Banks, Scots writer (d. 2013)
1955 - Bruce Crawford, Scots politeecian
1958 - Ice-T, American muisicker an actor
1959 - John McEnroe, American tennis player
1964 - Bebeto, Brazilian fitbawer
1964 - Christopher Eccleston, Inglis actor
1965 - Adama Barrow, Preses o the Gambie
1971 - Amanda Holden, Inglis actress an telly personality
1979 - Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer
1986 - Diego Godín, Uruguayan fitbawer
1989 - Elizabeth Olsen, American actress
1990 - The Weeknd, Canadian sangster, sangwriter an record producer
1994 - Ava Max, American sangster an sangwriter

1624 - Ludovic Stewart, 2nt Duke o Lennox, Scots nobleman an politeecian (b. 1574)
1907 - Giosuè Carducci, Italian writer an poet (b. 1835)
1917 - Octave Mirbeau, French writer (b. 1848)
1932 - Ferdinand Buisson, French pacifist (b. 1841)
1990 - Keith Haring, American artist (b. 1958)
1996 - Pat Brown, American politeecian (b. 1905)
2016 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Secretar-General o the Unitit Naitions (b. 1922)