Historical events February 16.

1659: The first check was withdrawn from a British bank, housed in the National Westminster Bank.

1704: Aurangzeb conquered Rajgad fort and renamed it as Nabishahagad.

1887: Shiv Narayan Agnihotri founded the Dev Samaj.

1918: Lithuania declared independence from Russia and Germany.

1933: Surya Sen was arrested on this day from Gairala village after a tip-off from an insider of the group.

1959: Fidel Castro became the President of Cuba.

1960: US submarine Triton started to orbit the earth underwater.

1982: Jawaharlal Nehru International Gold Cup Football tournament organized for the first time in Kolkata, India.

1985: Hezbollah, a radical Shia Muslim organization, formed in Lebanon.

2005: The Kyoto Treaty came into existence seven years after the world’s major countries agreed to protect the environment.

Famous birthdays and birth anniversaries– February 16.

1222: Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist priest of the Kamakura period, who developed the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism, a branch school of Mahayana Buddhism.

1822: Sir Francis Galton, an English statistician.

1928: Dinesh Nandini Dalmia, an Indian poet, short story writer, and novelist.

1954: Michael Holding, a Jamaican cricket commentator, and former cricketer.

1964: Bebeto, a Brazilian former professional football player.

1978: Wasim Jaffer, an Indian former cricketer.

1997: Pardeep Narwal, an Indian kabaddi player.

 

Famous people who died on this day on 16th February

1944: Dadasaheb Phalke, an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the Father of Indian cinema.

1956: Meghnad Saha, an Indian astrophysicist who developed the Saha ionization equation.

1996: R. D. Aga, an Indian industrialist and founder of Thermax.

2000: Karsten Solheim, an American golf club designer, and businessman.

2000: Bellary Kesavan, the first National Librarian of independent India.

2015: R. R. Patil, an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra.