16 Februar

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 
 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.

 Births 
 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

 Daiths 
 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)

 Halidays 
 Naitional Day o Lithuanie

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Category:Days o the year