Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 16

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This is a list of selected February 16 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
Chinese New Year, Korean New Year, Losar in Bhutan and Tibet, Tsagaan Sar in Mongolia, and others (2018); only Losar is eligible
1742Spencer Compton became British prime minister, but ended up being a figurehead for the true leader of the British government: Lord Carteret, the Secretary of State for the Northern Department. unreferenced section
1899 – French president Félix Faure suddenly died from apoplexy while having sexual activities with Marguerite Steinheil in his office. Blurb not confirmed in article
1923 – English Egyptologist and archaeologist Howard Carter unsealed Tutankhamun's tomb, KV62, in the Valley of the Kings. Article states unsealed on 17 February
1934 – The Austrian Civil War ended with the military of the First Austrian Republic defeating the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund, leaving at least several hundred people dead in the five-day conflict. needs more footnotes
1940Second World War: The Royal Navy boarded and captured the German tanker Altmark and freed 299 captured British sailors. refimprove
1943World War II: Norwegian commandos destroyed a factory to prevent the German nuclear weapon project from acquiring heavy water. Too much uncited
1946 – The Sikorsky S-51, the first helicopter to be built for civilian instead of military use, made its first flight. lots of CN tags
1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton set sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe. both featured on April 25
1968 – The first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system for the North American Numbering Plan went into service in Haleyville, Alabama. refimprove section
1977 – Archbishop Janani Luwum of the Church of Uganda, a leading voice against the regime of Idi Amin, was arrested for treason and murdered the next day. refimprove
1978 – The first computer bulletin board system, CBBS, was established by Ward Christensen during a blizzard in Chicago. refimprove
Thomas Bracken |d|1898 lots of CN tags (8)

Eligible

February 16: Day of the Shining Star in North Korea; Elizabeth Peratrovich Day in Alaska

Act of Independence of Lithuania
Act of Independence of Lithuania
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