Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 16
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February 16: Statehood Day in Lithuania (1918)
- 1249 - Louis IX of France dispatched Andrew of Longjumeau as his ambassador to the Mongols.
- 1804 - Lt. Stephen Decatur (pictured) led a raid to destroy the captured USS Philadelphia in Tripoli of the Barbary States, denying her use to the enemy in the First Barbary War.
- 1857 - Gallaudet University, the world’s only university for hearing-impaired students, was established in Washington, D.C..
- 1923 - Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun, a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.
- 1978 - The first computer bulletin board system, CBBS, was established by Ward Christensen during a blizzard in Chicago, Illinois.
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