02-16-2006, 06:36 AM
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February 16th
1923 ~ Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
1935 ~ Birthday of Sonny Bono, Singer & Congressman.
1937 ~ Wallace Carothers received a patent for nylon.
1942 ~ Birthday of Kim Jong Il, North Korean leader.
1959 ~ Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.
1978 ~ The first computer bulletin board system, CBBS, was created in Chicago, Illinois.
1986 ~ The Soviet liner Mikhail Lermontov ran aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
1989 ~ Investigators announced that the cause of the crash of Pan Am flight 103 was a bomb hidden inside a radio-cassette player.
1999 ~ Kurdish rebels took over embassies and held hostages after Turkey arrested one of their leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
2005 ~ The Kyoto Protocol came into effect.
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