Talk: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 Mongol Empire.
- 1804 - Lt. Stephen Decatur (pictured) led a raid to destroy the captured USS Philadelphia in Tripoli, denying her use to the Barbary States in the First Barbary War.
- 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.
- 2005 - The Kyoto Protocol, an amendment to the international treaty on climate change, entered into force.
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1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires in Australia killed 75. http://geog.tamu.edu/sarah/australia/bushfires.pdf
1907 Melvin Burkhart, “the Human Blockhead” (d. December 2001), American performer who could drive a five-inch nail or an ice pick into his head without flinching
Obit: http://www.smh.com.au/news/0112/19/entertainment/entertain101.html
Oy. I had put Pete Postlethwaite in the wrong spot on the page, and I had thought I had fixed it. Somehow it didn't stay fixed. :) -- Zoe
"1989 - Kate Peckham, quite possibly the coolest person alive." - Self aggrandisement or romantic tribute? I'll go out on a limb and say Hi Kate. 203.62.236.200 07:37, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
"* 1989 - Noelia C, a Puerto Rican spokeswoman." Second time i removed this. --171.161.160.10 14:41, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
