Historical Events on February 16

Pharaoh Tutankhamun

Here are some historical events that happened on February 16th:

1923 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt's Valley of the Kings.

1959 - Fidel Castro is sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba after leading a successful revolution that ousted the dictator Fulgencio Batista.

1968 - The first 911 emergency telephone system in the United States goes into service in Haleyville, Alabama.

1985 - Hezbollah is founded in Lebanon with support from Iran.

1998 - China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 people on board and seven more on the ground.

2005 - The Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enters into force.

2011 - A series of protests, known as the Bahraini uprising, begins in Bahrain as part of the wider Arab Spring movement.

2018 - Seventeen people are killed and fourteen more are injured in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, making it one of the deadliest school massacres in United States history.

These are just a few significant events that have occurred on February 16th throughout history.