February 16

February 16th will be the 47th day of 2023. This year, it will be a Thursday which will be in week 7. We will be the 16th of February 2023 in 6 months.

Aquarius

Zodiac sign

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What happened that day?

2013: A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
2006: The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
2005: The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-05 regular season and playoffs.
2005: The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
1998: China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground.
1996: A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
1991: Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
1987: The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
1986: The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
1985: Hezbollah is founded.
1983: The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
1978: The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
1968: In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
1962: Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
1961: Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1959: Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
1945: World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
1943: World War II: In the early phases of the Third Battle of Kharkov, Red Army troops re-enter the city.
1940: World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.
1937: Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
1936: Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
1934: The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
1933: The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
1930: The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
1923: Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
1918: The Council of [Lithuania](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuania) unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
1899: Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
1881: The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
1874: Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender.
1866: Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
1862: American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1852: Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
1804: First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
1742: Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
1699: First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania.
1646: Battle of Torrington, Devon: The last major battle of the first English Civil War.
1630: Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil.
1270: Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse.
1249: Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
116: Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia.