February 16

Monday 16, 1998:

China Airlines Flight 676 crashed into a residential area near by Chiang Kai-shek International Airport, killing 202 people, included all 196 on board and six on the ground.

Saturday 16, 1991:

Gulf War: U.S. and U.K. war planes bomb the suburbs of Baghdad, injuring at least 11 civilians and killing three others.

Friday 16, 1940:

Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark, with 299 British prisoners, was boarded in neutral Norwegian waters by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack and the prisoners set free, a breach of Norwegian neutrality at the beginning of World War II.

Friday 16, 1934:

Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republican Schutzbund

Saturday 16, 1918:

Lithuania declares its independence from both Russia and Germany.