^B{^#!16!16 February^N! Feast day of St Juliana of Cumae, St Onesimus the Slave, St Gilbert of Sempringham, and Saints Elias, Jeremy, and their Companions.
^B{1659^B} The first British check was written. ^B{1887^B} 25,000 prisoners in India were released to celebrate Queen Victoria's jubilee. ^B{1932^B} Irish general election won by Fianna Fßil party, led by Eamon de Valera. ^B{1937^B} US scientist W H Corothers obtained a patent for nylon. ^B{1940^B} The British navy rescued about 300 British seamen who were held on board the German ship ^I{Altmark^I}, in a Norwegian fjord. ^B{1959^B} Fidel Castro became president of Cuba. ^B{1960^B} The US nuclear submarine ^I{Triton^I} set off to circumnavigate the world underwater.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Giambattistsa Bodoni, Italian typographer, ^B{1740^B}; Francis Galton, English scientist and founder of eugenics, ^B{1822^B}; Ernst Haeckel, German naturalist and philosopher, ^B{1834^B}; Geraint Evans, Welsh operatic baritone, ^B{1922^B}; John Schlesinger, US film director, ^B{1926^B}; John McEnroe, US tennis player, ^B{1959^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Alfonso III, king of Portugal, ^B{1279^B}; Pierre-Paul Proudhon, French painter, ^B{1823^B}; Lionel Lukin, English inventor of the lifeboat, ^B{1834^B}; Henry Walter Bates, English naturalist and explorer, ^B{1892^B}; Leslie Hore-Belisha, British politician who introduced driving tests and the Highway Code, ^B{1957^B}.
