February 16<\/p>\n
1630 \u2013 Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture the city of Olinda in what is to later become part of Dutch Brazil.<\/p>\n
1804 \u2013 Off the shores of Tripoli, Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the frigate USS Philadelphia <\/em>that had been captured by Barbary pirates<\/p>\n 1923 \u2013 In the Valley of The Kings in Egypt, Howard Carter breaks the seals on the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.<\/p>\n 1937 \u2013 Wallace H. Carothers receives a U.S. patent for nylon.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines to retake it from Japanese forces.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 The U.S. Navy’s nuclear powered submarine USS Triton<\/em> sets sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.<\/p>\n 1968 \u2013 In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 911 emergency telephone system goes into service.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013 The first computer bulletin board system is created in Chicago by Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, members of CACHE, the Chicago Area Computer Hobbyists’ Exchange<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013 The moslem terrorist group Hezbollah<\/em> (Party of Allah) is founded in Beirut, Lebanon<\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 A Chicago bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited<\/em>, collides with a MARC<\/em> (MA<\/strong>ryland R<\/strong>ail C<\/strong>ommuter) train bound for Washington, D.C. in Silver Spring Maryland, killing 3 crew members and 8 passengers\u00a0 and injuring 26 more aboard both trains.<\/p>\n 2000 \u2013 Emery Worldwide Airlines cargo flight 17,\u00a0 a McDonnell Douglas DC-8, crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, shortly after takeoff, killing all 3 crew aboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" February 16 1630 \u2013 Dutch forces led by Hendrick Lonck capture the city of Olinda in what is to later become part of Dutch Brazil. 1804 \u2013 Off the shores of Tripoli, Stephen Decatur leads a raid to burn the frigate USS Philadelphia that had been captured by Barbary pirates 1923 \u2013 In the Valley … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64872"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90124,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64872\/revisions\/90124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}