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Birthday February 16, 1812 Henry Wilson ,(R), 18th VP (1873-75) |
Birthday February 16, 1838 Henry Adams, historian |
Birthday February 16, 1876 G.M. Trevelyan, historian |
Birthday February 16, 1884 Robert Flaherty, father of documentary film (Nanook of the North) |
Birthday February 16, 1886 Writer Van Wyck Brooks |
Birthday February 16, 1893 Ivor Armstrong Richards, English literary critic |
Birthday February 16, 1901 Wayne King, saxophonist & band leader (the Waltz King) |
Birthday February 16, 1903 Edgar Bergen, talks to wood |
Birthday February 16, 1909 Jeffrey Lynn, Actor |
Birthday February 16, 1911 Hal Porter, Australian writer (The Tilted Cross & The Paper Chase) |
Birthday February 16, 1920 Patty Andrews, singer -- Andrews Sisters in Minneapolis |
Birthday February 16, 1940 Sonny Bono, singer |
Birthday February 16, 1944 Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford is born |
Birthday February 16, 1959 John McEnroe, tennis player |
History February 16, 1600 Giordano Bruno - advocate of Copernican theory & plurality of worlds - is burned at the stake by the Inquisition in Rome |
History February 16, 1778 John Adams prepares to sail for France |
History February 16, 1786 James Monroe marries Elizabeth Kortright |
History February 16, 1804 The most daring act of the age |
History February 16, 1848 Chopin plays his final Paris concert |
History February 16, 1862 Ft. Donelson captured by Gen. Grant |
History February 16, 1862 Capture of Fort Donelson |
History February 16, 1878 Silver dollars made legal |
History February 16, 1883 Ladies Home Journal begins publication |
History February 16, 1894 John Wesley Hardin is pardoned |
History February 16, 1914 1st airplane flight to LA from SF |
History February 16, 1916 Russians capture Erzerum |
History February 16, 1918 Lithuania declares independence from Germany |
History February 16, 1923 Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun |
History February 16, 1933 David O. Selznick returns to MGM |
History February 16, 1937 Nylon patented - WH Carothers |
History February 16, 1938 US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized |
History February 16, 1945 US forces land on Corregidor - complete conquest on March 3 |
History February 16, 1945 Bataan recaptured |
History February 16, 1946 1st commercially designed helicopter tested - Bridgeport Ct |
History February 16, 1951 Joseph Stalin attacks the United Nations |
History February 16, 1951 SF City Hall dome fire |
History February 16, 1959 Castro sworn in |
History February 16, 1961 1st all solid propellant rocket put in orbit-Wallops Island - Va |
History February 16, 1964 Beatles second appearance on Ed Sullivan |
History February 16, 1968 Tet Offensive results in many new refugees |
History February 16, 1983 Brush fires ravage South Australia |
History February 16, 1984 Bill Johnson becomes first American to win Olympic gold in downhill skiing |
History February 16, 1997 Jeff Gordon becomes youngest Daytona winner |