Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 16

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  Spencer Compton
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  Tutankhamun's funerary mask
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  Félix Faure
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  Painting of Philadelphia burning by Edward Moran
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  Sikorsky S-51

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Blurb	Reason
Chinese New Year, Korean New Year, Losar in Bhutan and Tibet, Tsagaan Sar in Mongolia, and others (2018);	only Losar is eligible
1742 – Spencer Compton became British prime minister, but ended up being a figurehead for the true leader of the British government: Lord Carteret, the Secretary of State for the Northern Department.	unreferenced section
1899 – French president Félix Faure suddenly died from apoplexy while having sexual activities with Marguerite Steinheil in his office.	Blurb not confirmed in article
1923 – English Egyptologist and archaeologist Howard Carter unsealed TutankhamunTemplate:`s tomb, KV62, in the Valley of the Kings.	Article states unsealed on 17 February
1934 – The Austrian Civil War ended with the military of the First Austrian Republic defeating the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund, leaving at least several hundred people dead in the five-day conflict.	needs more footnotes
1940 – Second World War: The Royal Navy boarded and captured the German tanker Altmark and freed 299 captured British sailors.	refimprove
1943 – World War II: Norwegian commandos destroyed a factory to prevent the German nuclear weapon project from acquiring heavy water.	Too much uncited
1946 – The Sikorsky S-51, the first helicopter to be built for civilian instead of military use, made its first flight.	lots of CN tags
1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine Template:USS set sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.	both featured on April 25
1968 – The first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system for the North American Numbering Plan went into service in Haleyville, Alabama.	refimprove section
1977 – Archbishop Janani Luwum of the Church of Uganda, a leading voice against the regime of Idi Amin, was arrested for treason and murdered the next day.	refimprove
1978 – The first computer bulletin board system, CBBS, was established by Ward Christensen during a blizzard in Chicago.	refimprove
Thomas Bracken |d|1898	lots of CN tags (8)

Eligible

• 1270 – Livonian Crusade: In the Battle of Karuse, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania achieved a decisive victory over the Livonian Order on the frozen surface of the Baltic Sea.
• 1804 – First Barbary War: Lieutenant Stephen Decatur led a U.S. Navy raid to destroy the captured USS Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli (depicted), denying her use to the Barbary States.
• 1859 – The French government passed a law setting the musical note A₄ to a frequency of 435 hertz, in the first attempt to standardize concert pitch.
• 1862 – American Civil War: A Union victory at the Battle of Fort Donelson gave General Ulysses S. Grant the nickname "Unconditional Surrender".
• 1900 – The Southern Cross expedition led by Carsten Borchgrevink achieved a new Farthest South of 78° 50'S, making the first landing at the Great Ice Barrier.
• 1936 – The Popular Front, a coalition of left-wing parties, came to power in the Spanish general election, a factor in the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War five months later.
• 1959 – Fidel Castro was sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba, beginning his decades-long rule over the country.
• 1961 – The DuSable Museum, the first museum dedicated to the study and conservation of African American history, culture, and art, was chartered.
• 1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires burned over half a million acres (over Template:Nowrap) each in both South Australia and Victoria, killing 75 people and injuring 2,676 others.
• 1985 – The Lebanese Shia political and paramilitary organization Hezbollah released a manifesto describing its ideology and goals.
• 2005 – The Kyoto Protocol, an extension to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, entered into force.
• 2013 – At least 91 people were killed and 190 others injured after a bomb hidden in a water tank exploded at a market in Hazara Town, Pakistan.
• Born/died: | Mary the Younger |d|902| Henry Raspe |d|1247| Jean du Bellay |d|1560| Henry Wilson |b|1812| Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer |b|1922| Lanny McDonald |b|1953| Roberta Williams |b|1953| Eluned Morgan |b|1967| Valentino Rossi |b|1979| Theresa Goh |b|1987| The Weeknd |b|1990| Mary Amdur |d|1998| Boutros Boutros-Ghali |d|2016|

February 16: Chinese New Year's Eve (2026); Day of the Shining Star in North Korea; Elizabeth Peratrovich Day in Alaska Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1249 – King Louis IX dispatched André de Longjumeau as the French ambassador to the Mongol Empire.
• 1918 – The Council of Lithuania signed the Act of Independence (pictured), proclaiming the restoration of an independent Lithuania.
• 1922 – A landslide in Byblos revealed a sarcophagus in an underground tomb that was later discovered to be part of a large Bronze Age necropolis.
• 1996 – Eleven people died in a train collision in Silver Spring, Maryland, leading to the creation of comprehensive U.S. federal rules for the design of passenger cars.