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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/1804" title="1804">1804</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War" title="First Barbary War">First Barbary War</a>: Lieutenant <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Decatur" title="Stephen Decatur">Stephen Decatur</a></b> led a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">U.S. Navy</a> raid to destroy the captured <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Philadelphia_(1799)" title="USS Philadelphia (1799)">USS <i>Philadelphia</i></a></b> in the harbor of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripoli,_Libya" title="Tripoli, Libya">Tripoli</a> <i>(depicted)</i>, denying her use to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Coast" title="Barbary Coast">Barbary States</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1859" title="1859">1859</a> – The French government passed a law setting the musical note <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(musical_note)" title="A (musical note)">A<sub>4</sub></a> to a frequency of 435 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertz" title="Hertz">hertz</a>, in the first attempt to standardize <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch" title="Concert pitch">concert pitch</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959" title="1959">1959</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a></b> was sworn in as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Cuba" title="Prime Minister of Cuba">Prime Minister of Cuba</a>, beginning his decades-long rule over the country.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013" title="2013">2013</a> – At least 91 people were killed and 190 others injured after <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_2013_Quetta_bombing" title="February 2013 Quetta bombing">a bomb hidden in a water tank exploded</a></b> at a market in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazara_Town" title="Hazara Town">Hazara Town</a>, Pakistan.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Raspe" title="Henry Raspe">Henry Raspe</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1247); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wilson" title="Henry Wilson">Henry Wilson</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1812); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz-Wolfgang_Schnaufer" title="Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer">Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1922)</p>
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