Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: February 16
February 16, 2024 is the 47th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 319 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Aquarius is your zodiac sign. Amethyst is your modern birthstone. Bloodstone is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: February 16
- 1804 –First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
- 1899 –Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur Iceland’s first football club is founded.
- 1904 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Wood Dragon in Chinese astrology.
- 1923 –Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
- 1936 –Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
- 1961 –The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered.
- 1987 –The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed “Ivan the Terrible” in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.
- 1991 –Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
- 1998 –China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and six more on the ground.
- 2006 –The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
Who were born on February 16?
- 1761 –Charles Pichegru, French general (d. 1804)
- 1821 –Heinrich Barth, German explorer (d. 1865)
- 1856 –Rudolph Karstadt, German entrepreneur (d. 1944)
- 1901 –Chester Morris, American film actor (d. 1970)
- 1950 –Roman Tam, Hong Kong singer (d. 2002)
- 1958 –Ice-T, American rapper and actor
- 1958 –Michael W. Burns, American politician
- 1967 –John Valentin, baseball player
- 1968 –Warren Ellis, British comic writer
- 1983 –Agyness Deyn, British model
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