At present is Sunday, Feb. 16, the forty seventh day of 2025. There are 318 days left within the 12 months.
At present in historical past:
On Feb. 16, 1959, Fidel Castro was sworn in as premier of Cuba, six weeks after dictator Fulgencio Batista introduced his resignation and fled the nation into exile.
Additionally on this date:
In 1862, the Civil Conflict Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee ended with the give up of some 12,000 Accomplice troopers; Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s victory earned him the moniker “Unconditional Give up Grant.”
In 1923, the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen’s just lately unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt by English archaeologist Howard Carter.
In 1960, the nuclear submarine USS Triton departed New London, Connecticut, on the primary submerged circumnavigation by a vessel.
In 1996, eleven folks have been killed in a fiery collision between an Amtrak passenger practice and a Maryland commuter practice in Silver Spring, Maryland.
In 2018, in an indictment, particular counsel Robert Mueller charged 13 Russians and three Russian corporations of an elaborate plot to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election by way of a social media trolling marketing campaign, aimed partly at serving to Donald Trump win the presidency.
In 2024, Russia’s jail company introduced that Alexei Navalny, activist and Russian opposition chief, had died within the Arctic penal colony the place he was serving a 19-year sentence on fees of extremism; the information introduced outrage and criticism from world leaders towards Russian president Vladimir Putin.
At present’s birthdays:
- Businessman Carl Icahn is 89.
- Writer Eckhart Tolle is 77.
- Actor William Katt is 74.
- Mannequin-TV persona Janice Dickinson is 70.
- Actor LeVar Burton is 68.
- Actor-rapper Ice-T is 67.
- Tennis Corridor of Famer John McEnroe is 66.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Jerome Bettis is 53.
- Olympic monitor and subject gold medalist Cathy Freeman is 52.
- Actor Mahershala Ali is 51.
- Rapper Lupe Fiasco is 43.
- Sen. John Ossoff, D-Ga., is 38.
- Actor Elizabeth Olsen is 36.
- Singer-actor The Weeknd is 35.