16 February - Today in History - Important historical events happened on this day in India and World History
According to Gregory calendar, February 16 is the day number 47 in a given year. February 16 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
February 16 in History - Top Historical Events
| Year | Event / Incidence / Incident |
| 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. |
| 1723 | Louis XV of France received a majority with a logo. |
| 1745 | Thorle Madhavrao, the fourth Peshwa of the Maratha community, was born. |
| 1751 | Gray's "LG Living in Country Church Yard" was first published. |
| 1760 | Native American hostages died at Fort Prince George, South Carolina. |
| 1769 | The first planned horse racing was organized in Accra, Calcutta (now Kolkata). |
| 1796 | Great Britain was granted control of Ceylon by the Dutch. |
| 1804 | United States Navy Lieutenant Stephen Decatur led a raid to destroy the captured USS Philadelphia in Tripoli, denying her use to the Barbary States in the First Barbary War. |
| 1846 | The Sobrian war brought an end to the Sikh war in India. |
| 1862 | American Civil War-Union victory in the Battle of Fort Donelson gave General Ulysses S. Grant the nickname 'Unconditional Surrender' Grant. |
| 1896 | The famous poet, litterateur and writer of Hindi, Suryakant Tripathi Nirala was born. |
| 1901 | India's famous nationalist, social reformer, scholar and jurist Mahadev Govind Ranade died. |
| 1914 | The first aircraft flew between Los Angeles and San Francisco. |
| 1918 | The Council of Lithuania signed the Act of Independence of Lithuania, proclaiming the restoration of anindependent Lithuania governed by democratic principles, despite the presence of German troops in the country during World War I. |
| 1923 | English archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter unsealedthe burial chamber of Tutankhamun, an Egyptian Pharaohof the eighteenth dynasty. |
| 1938 | Eminent Bengali litterateur Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay died. |
| 1940 | Second World War-The British Royal Navy boarded and captured the German tanker Altmark and freed 299 captured British sailors. |
| 1943 | Second World War-Norwegian commandos trained by the British Special Operations Executive destroyed a factory to prevent the German nuclear energy project from acquiring heavy water. |
| 1944 | Dadasaheb Phalke, father of Hindi cinema, died at the age of 74 in Nashik. |
| 1946 | The Sikorsky S-51, the first helicopter to be built for civilian instead of military use, made its first flight. |
| 1946 | For the first time the Soviet Union representative in the United Nations exercised the veto right. |
| 1959 | Fidel Castro, the revolutionary leader in Cuba, became the youngest Prime Minister in Cuban history at 32 years. |
| 1961 | The DuSable Museum, the first museum dedicated to the study andconservation of African American history, culture, and art, waschartered. |
| 1966 | Indian educationist and freedom fighter Sadhu Vaswani died. |
| 1969 | A stamp was issued on the 100th death anniversary of Mirza Ghalib. |
| 1977 | Archbishop Janani Luwum of the Church of Uganda, a leadingvoice against the regime of Idi Amin, was arrested for treason andmurdered the next day. |
| 1982 | Jawaharlal Nehru International Gold Cup Football Tournament was organized for the first time in Kolkata (then Calcutta). |
| 1983 | The Ash Wednesday bushfires burned 513, 979 acres (2, 080 km2) in South Australia and 518, 921 acres (2, 100 km2) in Victoria, killing 75 people and injuring 2, 676 others. |
| 1985 | The Hizballah Program was released, describing the ideologyand goals of the Shia Islamic political and paramilitary organizationHizballah. |
| 1993 | Sandra Volker made a world record by swimming 50m backstroke in about 28.33 seconds. |
| 1994 | An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 stroked at south east Sumatra and it killed 200 people. |
| 1996 | Gary Kirsten scores 188* for South Africa vs. UAE at Rawalpindi. |
| 1997 | Paul Stokowski wins Hawaiian Golf Open. |
| 1998 | Tellabs Inc. acquires Coherent Communications Systems for $670 million. |
| 2005 | The Kyoto Protocol, an amendment to the international treaty onclimate change, entered into force. |
| 2005 | The Kyoto Treaty to protect the environment came into existence seven years after several major countries of the world agreed. |
| 2010 | The Queen Mary 2 make her first port call in China at the Port of Shanghai, since her maiden voyage in 2004. |
| 2011 | Lance Armstrong announces his official retirement from professional cycling. |
| 2012 | Anthony Shadid, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and the Middle East correspondent for the New York Times, dies at 43 of an acute asthma attack. |
| 2013 | A 6.2 earthquake occurred near the Philippine island of Mindanao fortunately with no immediate reports of damage or injuries. |
| 2013 | 84 people were killed and 190 injured in a bomb blast at a market in Hazara town of Pakistan. |
| 2014 | Eleven illegal gold miners were rescued from a collapsed shaft and the remaining men were refused to surface upon learning that the rescued men have been immediately arrested. Over 200 miners were still remained in the shaft. |
Famous Birthdays of February 16:
| Year | Name / Profession / Country |
| 1831 | Nikolai Leskov / Author / Russia |
| 1953 | John Bradbury / Writer / United Kingdom |
| 1920 | Anna Mae Hays / General / United States of America |
| 1812 | Henry Wilson / Politician / United States of America |
| 1873 | Radoje Domanović / Journalist / Serbia |
| 1995 | Carina Witthöft / Tennis Player / Germany |
| 1935 | Kenneth Price / Painter / United States of America |
| 1909 | Murugapillai Navratnaswami / Swimmer / India |
| 1985 | Stacy Lewis / Golfer / United States of America |
| 1987 | Luc Bourdon / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 1944 | António Mascarenhas Monteiro / Politician / Cape Verde |
| 1935 | Brian Bedford / Actor / United States of America |
| 1944 | Richard Ford / Writer / United States of America |
| 1984 | Sofia Arvidsson / Tennis Player / Sweden |
| 1948 | Kaiketsu Masateru / Wrestler / Japan |
| 1981 | Jay Howard / Racing Car Driver / United Kingdom |
| 1961 | Des Hasler / Rugby Player / Australia |
| 1938 | John Corigliano / Academic / United States of America |
| 1956 | Vincent Ward / Writer / New Zealand |
| 1992 | Nicolai Boilesen / Footballer / Denmark |
| 1944 | Glyn Davies / Politician / United Kingdom |
| 1965 | Dave Lombardo / Drummer / United States of America |
| 1876 | G. M. Trevelyan / Academic / United Kingdom |
| 1939 | Adolfo Azcuna / Lawyer / Philippines |
| 1994 | Annika Beck / Tennis Player / Germany |
| 1957 | LeVar Burton / Actor / United States of America |
| 1953 | Lanny McDonald / Ice Hockey Player / Canada |
| 1973 | Cathy Freeman / Sprinter / Australia |
| 1959 | John McEnroe / Tennis Player / United States of America |
| 1935 | Bradford Parkinson / Engineer / United States of America |
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Read in Hindi : 16 फरवरी की प्रमुख ऐतिहासिक घटनाएं