What are the important events that happened on February 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
February 16: Facts & Myths About This Day
February 16 is the 47th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 318 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is February 3, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 483,240 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘tetracontaheptagon’ day.
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Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 366 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,440 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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February 16 Historical Events
- 116 –Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia.
- 1904 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 1923 –Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
- 1934 –The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund.
- 1936 –Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
- 1937 –Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
- 1961 –The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered.
- 1968 –In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
- 1999 –In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov.
- 2006 –The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
Who were born on February 16?
- 1880 –Frank Burke, American baseball player (d. 1946)
- 1901 –Wayne King, American musician and orchestra leader (d. 1985)
- 1903 –Georges-Henri Lévesque, Quebec priest and sociologist (d. 2000)
- 1953 –Lanny McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1962 –John Balance, English musician (Coil, Psychic TV) (d. 2004)
- 1969 –Holly Aird, English actress
- 1970 –Angelo Peruzzi, Italian footballer
- 1975 –Vanina Ickx, Belgian racing driver
- 1978 –Tia Hellebaut, Belgian athlete
- 1991 –Sergio Canales, Spanish footballer
Who died on February 16?
- 1247 –Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)
- 1710 –Esprit Fléchier, French writer and Bishop of Nîmes (b. 1632)
- 1967 –Smiley Burnette, American actor, singer and songwriter (b. 1911)
- 1974 –John Garand, Canadian rifle engineer and manufacturer (b. 1888)
- 1988 –Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (b. 1916)
- 1996 –Edmund G. “Pat” Brown, Governor of California (b. 1905)
- 2003 –Eleanor “Sis” Daley, wife of Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley (b. 1907)
- 2003 –Rusty Magee, American composer (b. 1955)
- 2004 –Doris Troy, American singer (b. 1937)
- 2006 –Ernie Stautner, German-born American football player (b. 1925)
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