Today is Sunday, February 16, the forty seventh day of 2025. 318 days are left.
Today in history:
On February 16, 1959, Fidel Castro was sworn in as Prime Minister Cuba, six weeks after the dictator Fulgencio Batista announced his resignation and the country fled into exile.
Also on this date:
The Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee resulted in 1862 with the handover of around 12,000 soldiers of the Confederated Confederated. Union General Ulysses S. Grant's victory brought him the nickname “unconditional transfer scholarship”.
In 1960 the USS Triton left the atom -u boat in the course of the first circulation through a ship in New London, Connecticut.
In 1996, eleven people were killed in a fiery collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a Maryland commuter train in Silver Spring, Maryland.
In 2018, the special advisor Robert Mueller and three Russian corporations were accused of disturbing the US presidential elections in 2016 via a trolling campaign for social media, a few of which aimed to win Donald Trump, which was partly geared toward in 2018 To win presidency.
In 2024, the Russian prison authority announced that Alexei Navalny, activist and Russian opposition leader, died in Arctic criminal colony wherein he condemned a 19-year prison sentence for extremism. The news brought outrage and criticism from the leaders of the world to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Today's birthdays:
- Businessman Carl Icahn is 89.
- Author Eckhart Toller is 77.
- Actor William Katt is 74.
- Model TV personality Janice Dickinson is 70.
- Actor Levar Burton is 68.
- Actor rapper ICE-T is 67.
- Tennis Hall of Famer John Mcenroe is 66.
- Famer Jerome Betti's football hall is 53.
- The Olympics light athletics Cathy Freeman is 52.
- Actor Mahershala Ali is 51.
- Rapper Lupe Fiasco is 43.
- Senator John Ossoff, D-GA., Is 38.
- Actor Elizabeth Olsen is 36.
- Weeknd singer actor is 35.
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