Year 1659
The first check was withdrawn from a British bank, housed in the National Westminster Bank.
FEBRUARY 16
Daily Historical Chronicle
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16 February: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 16 February.
Year 1704
Aurangzeb conquered Rajgad fort and renamed it as Nabishahagad.
Year 1918
Lithuania declared independence from Russia and Germany.
Year 1959
Fidel Castro became the President of Cuba.
Year 1960
US submarine Triton started to orbit the earth underwater.
Year 1982
Jawaharlal Nehru International Gold Cup Football tournament organized for the first time in Kolkata, India.
Year 1985
Hezbollah, a radical Shia Muslim organization, formed in Lebanon.
Year 1991
Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
Year 1996
A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.
Year 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.
Year 2005
The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
Year 2005
The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–05 regular season and playoffs.
Year 2006
The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
Year 2013
A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.
Born 1222
Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist priest of the Kamakura period, who developed the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism, a branch school of Mahayana Buddhism.
Born 1822
Sir Francis Galton, an English statistician.
Born 1928
Dinesh Nandini Dalmia, an Indian poet, short story writer, and novelist.
Born 1954
Michael Holding, a Jamaican cricket commentator, and former cricketer.
Born 1964
Bebeto, a Brazilian former professional football player.
Born 1978
Wasim Jaffer, an Indian former cricketer.
Born 1997
Pardeep Narwal, an Indian kabaddi player.
Died 1944
Dadasaheb Phalke, an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, is known as the Father of Indian cinema.
Died 1956
Meghnad Saha, an Indian astrophysicist developed the Saha ionization equation.
Died 1996
R. D. Aga, an Indian industrialist and founder of Thermax.
Died 2000
Karsten Solheim, an American golf club designer, and businessman.
Died 2000
Bellary Kesavan, the first National Librarian of independent India.
Died 2015
R. R. Patil, an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra.