On this day: February 16th

On this day: February 16th

There are many and several events on this day in history. Read and discover what happened on this day: On this day: February 16th

On this day: February 16th

Events On this day: February 16th

• 1923: Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s burial chamber is opened.
• 1937: Nylon is invented.
• 1959: Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba.
• 1968: The 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
• 1972: Wilt Chamberlain scores his 30,000th NBA point.
• 1985: Hezbollah is founded. The Lebanese political party and militant group is classified as a terrorist organization by several western countries.
• 1987: The first trial against John Demjanjuk begins in Jerusalem. Demjanjuk was falsely accused of being a particularly brutal Nazi guard dubbed “Ivan the Terrible”; in a separate trial in 2011, he was convicted by a German criminal court as an accessory to the murder of 27,900 people.
• 2005: The Kyoto Protocol goes into effect. The global warming pact was ratified by 191 countries to date – excluding the United States.
• 2005: The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season.

Birthdays on this day: February 16th

• 1831: Nikolai Leskov (Russian author, playwright, journalist)
• 1898: Katharine Cornell (American actress, producer)
• 1940: Sonny Bono (Singer and Congressman)
• 1941: Kim Jong-il (North Korean politician, 2nd Supreme Leader of North Korea)
• 1954: Iain Banks (Scottish author)
• 1958: Ice-T (Rapper and Actor)
• 1959: John McEnroe (Tennis Player)
• 1979: Valentino Rossi (Italian motorcycle racer)

Deaths On this day: February 16th

• 1932: Edgar Speyer (American/English financier, philanthropist)
• 1957: Josef Hofmann (Polish/American pianist, composer)
• 1984: M. A. G. Osmany (Bangladeshi general)
• 2002: Walter Winterbottom (England football manager)
• 2013: Tony Sheridan (English singer-songwriter, guitarist)

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