Page 8: Historical Events In February - 16

1965  On this day in history pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors   

1966  On this day in history bob Cowper makes 307 vs England at the MCG, 727 minute s, 20 fours   

1966  On February - 16 end of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Australia WK   

1966  On February - 16 france performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria   

1966  On this day in history hendrik W Tilanus, artillery officer/leader (CHU 1939-63), dies at 81   

1967  Operation River Raider begins in Mekong Delta on February - 16.   

1967  Smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55 on this day in history.   

1968  On February - 16 beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi   

1968  On this day in history country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL   

1968  Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art" on this day in history.   

1968  Healey Willan, composer, dies at 87 on this day in history.   

1970  Joe Frazier KOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for undisputed heavyweight boxing crown on this day in history.   

1971  Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, under opposition attack in the Commons, utters an apparently unparliamentary expression that he later describes as "fuddle-duddle" we all know what it really was on February - 16.   

1972  On this day in history german mass murderers "Three of Breda" freed   

1972  On this day in history test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe West Indies vs New Zealand Kingston, 214 & 100   

1973  On this day in history west Indies vs Australia at Kingston, first time since 1955 without Sobers   

1973  On February - 16 william Calley's murder conviction for the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam   

1973  On February - 16 pieter Van der Bijl, cricketer (outstanding S Af bat in 1938-39), dies   

1977  USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR on this day in history.   

1978  On this day in history the first Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago)   

1979  On this day in history george Harrison releases "Blow Away"   

1979  On February - 16 uSSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR   

1979  Louise Allbritton, actress (Celia-Stage Door), dies at 58 on this day in history.   

1980  Continuous traffic jam extends 176 km north of Lyons, France on this day in history.   

1980  Eric Heiden skates 5k in 7 02.29 (Olympics Record) on this day in history.   

1981  On this day in history howard Hanson, composer, dies at 84   

1982  On this day in history agatha Barbara elected as first female President of Malta   

1982  On February - 16 assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad   

1982  Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce on this day in history.   

1984  On February - 16 bill Johnson becomes first American to win Olympics downhill skiing gold   

1984  Canada's Brian Orser wins Silver Medal in Figure Skating at the same Olympics; highest Olympic award ever to a Canadian male on this day in history.   

1984  On this day in history in Sarajevo Bosnia Canada's Gaetan Boucher wins second Gold Medal in Speedskating at the 14th Winter Games   

1984  On February - 16 ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69   

1985  Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champion on this day in history.   

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1032  Emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067) was born on February - 16.   

1075  On February - 16 birth of ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet   

1497  On this day in history birth of philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer (Augsburgse Confessie)   

1519  On February - 16 birth of gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral   

1543  Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590) was born on February - 16.   

1620  On February - 16 birth of frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia   

1643  On February - 16 birth of john Sharp, English Archbishop of York (d. 1714)   

1669  Arnold Boonen, Dutch portrait painter was born on this day in history.   

0309  On this day in history death of pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded   

0923  On February - 16 abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari, islamic historian, dies at 83   

1247  On this day in history death of heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia (b. 1204)   

1279  Afonso III, King of Portugal (1248-79), dies on February - 16.   

1391  On this day in history johannes V Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium (1341-91), dies   

1531  On February - 16 death of johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452)   

1538  Everhard/Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Liege, dies at 65 on this day in history.   

1560  Death of Jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat on this day in history.