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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_16" title="February 16">February 16</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Shining_Star" title="Day of the Shining Star">Day of the Shining Star</a></b> in North Korea; <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Peratrovich" title="Elizabeth Peratrovich">Elizabeth Peratrovich Day</a></b> in Alaska
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1249" title="1249">1249</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_IX_of_France" title="Louis IX of France">King Louis IX</a> dispatched <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_de_Longjumeau" title="André de Longjumeau">André de Longjumeau</a></b> as the French ambassador to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Empire" title="Mongol Empire">Mongol Empire</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918" title="1918">1918</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Lithuania" title="Council of Lithuania">Council of Lithuania</a> signed the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_of_Independence_of_Lithuania" title="Act of Independence of Lithuania">Act of Independence</a></b>, proclaiming the restoration of an independent Lithuania.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1922" title="1922">1922</a> – A landslide in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byblos" title="Byblos">Byblos</a> revealed a sarcophagus in an underground tomb, later discovered to be part of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_necropolis_of_Byblos" title="Royal necropolis of Byblos">a large Bronze Age necropolis</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996" title="1996">1996</a> – Eleven people died in <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Maryland_train_collision" title="1996 Maryland train collision">a train collision</a></b> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_Spring,_Maryland" title="Silver Spring, Maryland">Silver Spring, Maryland</a>, leading to the creation of comprehensive U.S. federal rules for the design of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_railroad_car" title="Passenger railroad car">passenger cars</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_of_Dover" title="Richard of Dover">Richard of Dover</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1184); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coluccio_Salutati" title="Coluccio Salutati">Coluccio Salutati</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1331); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Holding" title="Michael Holding">Michael Holding</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1954); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Olsen" title="Elizabeth Olsen">Elizabeth Olsen</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1989)</p>
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