Historical events February 16.
1659: The first check was withdrawn from a British bank, housed in the National Westminster Bank.
1704: Aurangzeb conquered Rajgad fort and renamed it as Nabishahagad.
1887: Shiv Narayan Agnihotri founded the Dev Samaj.
1918: Lithuania declared independence from Russia and Germany.
1933: Surya Sen was arrested on this day from Gairala village after a tip-off from an insider of the group.
1959: Fidel Castro became the President of Cuba.
1960: US submarine Triton started to orbit the earth underwater.
1982: Jawaharlal Nehru International Gold Cup Football tournament organized for the first time in Kolkata, India.
1985: Hezbollah, a radical Shia Muslim organization, formed in Lebanon.
2005: The Kyoto Treaty came into existence seven years after the world’s major countries agreed to protect the environment.
Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries– February 16.
1222: Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist priest of the Kamakura period, who developed the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism, a branch school of Mahayana Buddhism.
1822: Sir Francis Galton, an English statistician.
1928: Dinesh Nandini Dalmia, an Indian poet, short story writer, and novelist.
1954: Michael Holding, a Jamaican cricket commentator, and former cricketer.
1964: Bebeto, a Brazilian former professional football player.
1978: Wasim Jaffer, an Indian former cricketer.
1997: Pardeep Narwal, an Indian kabaddi player.
Famous people who died on this day on 16th February
1944: Dadasaheb Phalke, an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the Father of Indian cinema.
1956: Meghnad Saha, an Indian astrophysicist who developed the Saha ionization equation.
1996: R. D. Aga, an Indian industrialist and founder of Thermax.
2000: Karsten Solheim, an American golf club designer, and businessman.
2000: Bellary Kesavan, the first National Librarian of independent India.
2015: R. R. Patil, an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra.
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