Saturday, February 16, 2013

THIS DAY IN HISTORY – FEBRUARY 16

HISTORICAL EVENTS

600  Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God Bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze.



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1804  "The most daring act of the age," per British Admiral Horatio Nelson, is lead by American Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, Jr. in the First Barbary War.



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1923  Howard Carter opens the tomb of Tutankhamen in Thebes Egypt.



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1945  Bataan, the scene of the infamous Japanese prisoner of war Death March of 1942, is recaptured by forces led by American General Douglas MacArthur in World War II.



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1951  The USSR's Joseph Stalin attacks the United Nations "as a weapon of aggressive war."



FAMOUS BIRTHS


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1942  Supreme North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il is born (dies December 17, 2011).



FAMOUS DEATHS

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