Page 8: Historical Events In February - 16

1965  On February - 16 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  End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Australia WK on this day in history.   

1966  On this day in history france performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria   

1966  On February - 16 hendrik W Tilanus, artillery officer/leader (CHU 1939-63), dies at 81   

1967  Operation River Raider begins in Mekong Delta on this day in history.   

1967  On February - 16 smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), dies at 55   

1968  On this day in history beatles George Harrison & John Lennon & wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi   

1968  Country's first 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville AL on February - 16.   

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

1968  Healey Willan, composer, dies at 87 on February - 16.   

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

1971  On this day in history 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   

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

1972  On February - 16 test Cricket debut of Lawrence Rowe West Indies vs New Zealand Kingston, 214 & 100   

1973  West Indies vs Australia at Kingston, first time since 1955 without Sobers on this day in history.   

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

1973  Pieter Van der Bijl, cricketer (outstanding S Af bat in 1938-39), dies on this day in history.   

1977  On February - 16 uSSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR   

1978  On February - 16 the first Computer Bulletin Board System (Ward & Randy's CBBS, Chicago)   

1979  George Harrison releases "Blow Away" on this day in history.   

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  Agatha Barbara elected as first female President of Malta on February - 16.   

1982  Assembled STS-3 vehicle moves from Vandenberg AFB to launch pad on this day in history.   

1982  Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce on February - 16.   

1984  On this day in history bill Johnson becomes first American to win Olympics downhill skiing gold   

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

1984  On February - 16 in Sarajevo Bosnia Canada's Gaetan Boucher wins second Gold Medal in Speedskating at the 14th Winter Games   

1984  On this day in history ken Williams, TV announcer (Video Village), dies at 69   

1985  Livingston Bramble defeats Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini to win WBA champion on February - 16.   

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1032  On this day in history birth of emperor Yingzong of China (d. 1067)   

1075  On this day in history birth of ordericus Vitalis, French monk/historian/poet   

1497  Philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer (Augsburgse Confessie) was born on this day in history.   

1519  On this day in history birth of gaspard de Coligny, Huguenot leader/French admiral   

1543  On February - 16 birth of kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (d. 1590)   

1620  Frederick William, Great Elector, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia was born on February - 16.   

1643  John Sharp, English Archbishop of York (d. 1714) was born on this day in history.   

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

0309  Death of Pamphilus van Caesarea, Palestinian scholar/martyr, beheaded on February - 16.   

0923  Abu Dja'far Mohammed Djarir al-Tabari, islamic historian, dies at 83 on February - 16.   

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

1279  On February - 16 afonso III, King of Portugal (1248-79), dies   

1391  On February - 16 johannes V Palaeologus, Emperor of Byzantium (1341-91), dies   

1531  Death of Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452) on February - 16.   

1538  Everhard/Erardus van de Mark, prince-bishop of Liege, dies at 65 on February - 16.   

1560  On February - 16 death of jean du Bellay, French Catholic cardinal and diplomat