February 16

Wednesday 16, 2005:

2005 - The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labour dispute.

Tuesday 16, 1999:

In Jasper, Texas, the trial begins of John William King who is accused of dragging African American James Byrd Jr. to death in an apparent hate crime.

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.

Thursday 16, 1989:

Pan Am flight 103: Investigators announce that the cause of the crash was a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player.

Monday 16, 1987:

The trial of John Demjanjuk, who was accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.

Sunday 16, 1986:

The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.

Wednesday 16, 1983:

The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia claim the lives of 71 people in Australia's worst ever fires.

Thursday 16, 1978:

The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).

Wednesday 16, 1972:

NBA basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scores 30,000th point.

Monday 16, 1970:

Joe Frazier starts a heavyweight world boxing champion winning streak with the knock out of Jimmy Ellis in five rounds.

Friday 16, 1968:

In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.

Thursday 16, 1961:

Explorer 9 launched. (See Explorer program)

Monday 16, 1959:

Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after President Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.

Friday 16, 1945:

1945 - American forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula.

Tuesday 16, 1943:

World War II: Russia reconquers Kharkov.

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.

Tuesday 16, 1937:

Wallace H. Carothers receives a patent for nylon.

Sunday 16, 1936:

Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.

Friday 16, 1934:

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

Friday 16, 1923:

Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

Saturday 16, 1918:

Lithuania declares its independence from both Russia and Germany.

Thursday 16, 1899:

President Félix Faure of France dies in office.

Friday 16, 1883:

Ladies Home Journal is published for the first time.

Sunday 16, 1868:

In New York City the Jolly Corks organization is renamed the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE).

Friday 16, 1866:

Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes the British Secretary of State for War

Sunday 16, 1862:

American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson, Tennessee.

Monday 16, 1857:

The National Deaf Mute College (later renamed Gallaudet University) is established. in Washington, DC becoming the first school for the advanced education of the deaf.

Monday 16, 1852:

Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.

Friday 16, 1838:

Weenen Massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal were killed by Zulus.

Thursday 16, 1804:

First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate Philadelphia.

Friday 16, 1742:

Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.

Thursday 16, 1279:

Afonso III of Portugal dies. His son Denis succeeds the Portuguese throne.

Tuesday 16, 1249:

Andrew of Longjumeau was dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols.

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