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Events
116 – Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia.
1249 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with the Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
1270 – Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Livonian Order in the Battle of Karuse.
1630 – Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture Olinda in what was to become part of Dutch Brazil.
1646 – Battle of Torrington, Devon – the last major battle of the first English Civil War.
1699 – First Leopoldine Diploma is issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, recognizing the Greek Catholic clergy enjoyed the same privileges as Roman Catholic priests in the Principality of Transylvania.
1742 – Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister.
1804 – First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the pirate-held frigate USS Philadelphia.
1840 – Naval officer and explorer Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
1852 – Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
1861 – Abraham Lincoln stops his train on his way to Washington to thank 11-year-old Grace Bedell for her advice to grow a beard to gain more votes.
1862 – American Civil War: General Ulysses S. Grant captures Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River in Tennessee.
1866 – Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
1874 – Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender.
1881 – The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
1899 – Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
1918 – The Council of Lithuania unanimously adopts the Act of Independence, declaring Lithuania an independent state.
1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
1930 – The Romanian Football Federation joins FIFA.
1934 – The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund.
1936 – Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
1940 – World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed.
1943 – World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov.
1943 – World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway.
1945 – World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
1957 – The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom.
1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
1960 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
1961 – The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered.
1962 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
1964 – The Beatles' make their second appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show" from Deauville Hotel in Miami, Florida.
1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
1985 – Hezbollah is founded.
1986 – The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.
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 seven more on the ground.
1999 – In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islom Karimov.
1999 – Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–2005 regular season and playoffs.
2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
2013 – A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town in Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
2015 – A CSX train crashes in Mount Carbon, West Virginia, resulting in large fires.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Contemporary Western
Abda of Edessa
Elias and companions
Juliana of Nicomedia
Onesimus
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Charles Todd Quintard (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
February 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Hieromartyrs Pamphilus of Caesarea, Priest, and Valens, Deacon, and Martyrs
Paul, Seleucus, Porphyrius, Julian, Theodulus, Elias, Jeremiah, Isaiah,
Samuel, and Daniel, at Caesarea in Palaestina (c. 307-309)
Saint Maruthas of Martyropolis, Bishop of Sophene and Martyropolis,
and the Martyrs of Persia (4th c.), whose relics rest in Martyropolis
Saint Flavian of Antioch, Archbishop of Antioch (404)
Saint Flavian the Confessor, Archbishop of Constantinople (449)
Venerable Flavian the Hermit, monastic and Wonderworker
Saint Mary the New, of Byzia in Thrace (9th c.)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Onesimus, of the Seventy Apostles (c. 68)
Saint Honestus (Honestus of Nîmes), a disciple of Saturninus of Toulouse,
who preached the Gospel in Spain (270)
Saint Faustinus of Brescia, Bishop of Brescia and Confessor (381)
Hieromartyr Tanco of Verden, Bishop of Verden (815)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
New Monk-martyr Romanus of Karpenision and Kapsokalyvia, Mount Athos,
at Constantinople (1694)
Saint Basil Gryaznov of Pavlovo-Posadsky (1869)
Saint Macarius (Nevsky), Metropolitan of Moscow, Apostle to the Altai (1926)
Saint Nicholas of Japan, Archbishop and Equal-to-the-Apostles (1912)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Peter Lagov, Priest (1931)
New Hieromartyr Elias Chetverukhin, Priest, of Moscow (1934)
New Hieromartyr Paul, Priest (1938)
Other commemorations
Translation of the relics of Virgin-martyr Juliana of Nicomedia (304)
Synaxis of the 'Cypriot' Icon of the Theotokos
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