February 16th

The February 16th is the 47e Jour of the Année of the Gregorian calendar . There remain 318 days before the end of the year (319 so bissextile).

Events

1 with 1900

  • 1147 : The abbot Suger is seen entrusting the regency of the kingdom of France in the absence of Louis VII left in crusade.

  • 1214 : Jean without Ground unloads with La Rochelle.
  • 1722 : France: Widening of main road and plantation of trees of the two with dimensions ones.
  • 1723 : Louis XV is proclaimed king of France.
  • 1785 : Paris: This day, Lavoisier organizes an experiment which it has just developed: decomposition of water in Oxygen and Hydrogen.
  • 1804 : American Royal marines penetrate in the port of Tripoli and set fire to the American frigate Philadelphia , which had been captured by pirates.
  • 1808 : The army of Napoleon enters in Spain.
  • 1863 : Creation of the International committee of the Red Cross by Switzerland Henry Dunant.
  • 1871 : The war free-Prussian ends by a defeat of the France.
  • 1873 : The Republic is proclaimed in Spain.
  • 1881 : Saharan Africa: The mission directed by Paul Flatters is massacred by the Touaregs.
  • 1892 : the Vatican: Leon XIII publishes the Encyclique In the middle of solicitudes ( Inter sollicitudines ) in favor of the rallying of the catholics to the laic governments.
  • 1893 : Paris: the Trophies , this collection of sonnets of José-Maria de Heredia, causes such an enthusiasm that the edition is exhausted in a few hours.
  • 1899 : France: died of the president of the Republic Felix Faure.

20th century

  • 1905 : France: The Senate votes the law fixing the military service at 2 years.

  • 1918 :
    • the Lithuania obtains its independence.
    • the English port of Dover is attacked by a German submarine.
  • 1922 : The archbishop of Quebec, Mgr Paul-Eugene Roy opposes modifications of laws which would make it possible to the women to take part in the provincial elections.
  • 1923 :
  • 1932 :
    • in Ireland, the Fianna Fail directed by Eamon de Valera gains the elections.
    • the industrialist Jean Mantelet deposits the patent of the " Potato-masher ". Disputed invention, to consult the article Passes-quickly .
  • 1933 : In front of the German threat, the Czechoslovakia, the Romania and the Yugoslavia constitute the " Little Entente " and create a permanent council.
  • 1934 : Vienna: The launched insurrection it by the social democrats, is crushed by the army, which shoot at the militants from the LPR (league of protection of the Republic), armed wing of the social democrat Party (PSD). The assessment drawn up by the police headquarter gives a report officially on 297 dead and 802 wounded.
  • 1936 :
  • 1937 : A Brevet of invention for the Nylon is granted to Dr. Wallace Carothers. The word Nylon comes from initial from the first name of the wives of the five researchers having taken part in the development from this matter. Its invention dates from the February 28th 1935.
  • 1940 : The first Lord of the British Admiralty Winston Churchill orders the setting out of combat of a German ship, the Altmark, in a Fjord of Norway. Piqué with sharp, Hitler will make the decision to invade the Scandinavian country, in spite of its neutrality.
  • 1942 : German submarines attack oil refineries to Aruba, with the Dutch West Indies.
  • 1943 :
  • 1945 : Beginning of massive air raids of the Boeing B-29 of the United States Air Force on Tokyo.
  • 1946 : Ottawa announces the arrest of twenty suspects of espionage, following the revelations of Igor Gouzenko, made with the figure with the Soviet embassy; eleven people will be condemned.
  • 1948 :
    • Proclamation of the Popular republic of North Korea.
    • Innovation with the NewYork Times : It is not yet Internet but the newspaper transmits an edition via the electromagnetic waves for a remote printing.
  • 1949 : the Communes adopt the Newfoundland Union Act , envisaging the entry of Newfoundland in the Canada.
  • 1953 : Promulgation of special capacities in South Africa, within the framework of the law on public safety.
  • 1956 : The XXe congress of the Soviet Communist party breaks with the Stalinisme.
  • 1959 : Fidel Castro becomes chief of the government Cuba in.
  • 1961 : Cyprus decides to require its admission of the the United Nations.
  • 1962 : Antigovernment riots burst with Georgetown (British Guyana).
  • 1970 :
    • the Soviet Union announces its intention to bring “all the help which they will need” with the Arab countries in their conflict with Israel.
    • a train plunges in a ravine, with the Nigeria, making 80 victims; 52 other travellers who were wounded will be killed in the accident implying the truck which transports them to the hospital.
  • 1985 : the Israeli army completes the first phase of its evacuation of the Lebanon.
  • 1986 : With the Portugal, the candidate of the Socialist party Mario Soares is elected president of the Republic with 51% of the voices. It has been the first time for 60 years which a civilian occupies the presidency of the country.
  • 1989 : Roger-Patrice Pelat, friend of François Mitterrand, is accused in the business Pechiney for " concealment of offense of initié".
  • 1990 :
    • Adoption of the Flag of HongKong.
    • the the United States authorize Anarchistes and Communistes to be penetrated on the national territory.
  • 1992 :
    • the Salvadorian government and the representatives of the guerilla sign with Mexico City fine peace agreement putting at twelve years of a civil war which made 75.000 died and ruined the country.
    • With the Zaire (become again since the Congo-Kinshasa), the police force of the mode Mobutu kills thirty-two demonstrators.
  • 1994 : The Greece interdict with the trade of the Macedonia to forward by the port of Salonique.
  • 1998 : The 196 passengers of a Airbus A300-600 of the company tawaïnaise Clouded Airlines and 6 people on the ground lose the life, whereas the apparatus is crushed in a residential sector close to the international airport of Taipei.
  • 1999 : Last annular eclipse of the 20th century.
  • 2000 :
    • the German president Johannes Rau, expressing in front of the Israeli Parliament, request forgiveness for extermination of six million Jews during the Second world war.
    • the Spanish press reports that the ex-dictator " Pinochet suffers from serious lesions to the brain which would prevent it from including/understanding and to answer the questions at the time of possible a procès".

21e century

  • 2001 :

    • Murder attempt against Serb pilgrims with the Kosovo: 7 dead.
    • Of the British and American planes bombards five batteries of Iraqi DCA around Baghdad, which threatened allied aviation: two civilians are killed.
    • the suspect number one of the business of disappeared from the Yonne, Emile Louis, sixty-six years, is put in examination and placed in detention pending trial, for four rapes and sexual assaults made between 1993 and 1996 in the Var.
  • 2002 : A radioactive escape, in the Ukrainian nuclear plant Khmelnytskyi of Kiev, is detected and clogged after having caused a puddle pool of approximately 30 square meters of water with a level of radioactivity of 240 microroentgens/hour.
  • 2003 : With alternate Nimes (France, department of the Gard), of El Salvador Vega, Spanish Matador .
  • 2004 : The Minister for Justice Dominique Perben inaugurates within the CHU of Nancy-Brabois the first interregional protected hospital Unité (UHSI) of France.
  • 2005 :
    • Coming into effect of the Protocol of Kyoto on the Climate change, signed by 140 countries and imposing from here 2012 a reduction of the emissions of Gas to greenhouse effect.
    • For the first time since its removal in Iraq, the journalist Italian Giuliana Sgrena appears in a video recording in which it calls with the withdrawal of the foreign forces of Iraq and begs its close relations and the Italian people to help it.

Births

Births before 1800

Births at the 19th century

Births at the 20th century

1901 - 1950

1951 - 2000

Death

Celebrations

  • national Festival:

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

  • Julienne de Nicomédie martyrdom.
  • Armentaire
  • Élie the Egyptian martyr in Palestine with five compatriots: Jeremy, Isaïe, Samuel and Daniel, and with Pamphile and his/her companions.
  • Flavien of Constantinople († 451) patriarch.
  • Flavien the Hermit (IVe S.).
  • Marie the News (9th century)
  • Maruthas de Sophène († towards 420) bishop
  • Onésime (disciple of Paul saint)
  • Pamphile de Césarée (307 - 309) martyr with his/her companions: Valens, Paul, Séleucus, Porphyry, Julien, Théodule, and with five Egyptians.
  • Siméon of Metz (IVe S.) bishop.
  • Lucile martyrdom in North Africa

Catholic saints of the day

  • Philippa Mareri, happy († 1236)

See too

Beats-smg: Vasarė 16 Be-X-old: 16 лютага Fiu-vro: 16. radokuu päiv Nds-nl: 16 febrewaori Simple: February 16 Zh-yue: 2 月 16 號

Random links:Montpellier | Partido Verde (Irlanda) | Clouds of Kordylewski | Abdelmajid Oulmers | Policy of Nauru | Mallos (city)