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Today is Friday, February 16, the 47th day of 2024. There are 319 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On February 16, 2011, bookstore chain Borders filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and announced that it would close nearly a third of its stores. (Borders closed all of its remaining stores in September 2011.)
On this date:
In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee ended with the surrender of approximately 12,000 Confederate soldiers; Union General Ulysses S. Grant’s victory earned him the nickname “Grant of Unconditional Surrender.”
In 1918, Lithuania declared independence from the Russian Empire. (Lithuania, which was occupied first by the Soviet Union, then by Nazi Germany, and then by the Soviet Union again during World War II, renewed its independence in 1990).
In 1923, the burial chamber of the recently unearthed tomb of King Tutankhamun in Egypt was opened by British archaeologist Howard Carter.
[In1945AmericantroopslandedatCorregidointhePhilippinesduringWorldWarII[1945’teAmerikanbirlikleriİkinciDünyaSavaşısırasındaFilipinler’dekiCorregidoradasınaçıkarmayaptıIn 1959, Fidel Castro became prime minister of Cuba, a month and a half after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.
In 1960, the nuclear-powered radar spotter submarine USS Triton departed New London, Connecticut, for the first shipwreck patrol by a ship.
In 1961, the United States launched the Explorer 9 satellite.
In 1996, 11 people died in a fiery collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a Maryland commuter train in Silver Spring, Maryland.
In 1998, a China Airlines Airbus A300 crashed while trying to land in foggy weather in Taipei, Taiwan, killing all 196 people on board, plus seven people on the ground.
In 2001, the US and UK launched air strikes on radar stations and air defense command centers in Iraq.
In 2009, in Stamford, Connecticut, a 200-pound chimpanzee named Travis went berserk and seriously injured his owner’s friend, Charla Nash; Travis was shot and killed by police.
In 2011, bookstore chain Borders filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and said it would close nearly a third of its stores. (Borders closed all of its remaining stores in September 2011.)
In 2012, former Associated Press reporter Anthony Shadid, a New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, died of an apparent asthma attack while covering the uprising against the president in Syria; He was 43 years old.
In the first extended press conference of his presidency in 2017, Donald Trump condemned what he called “criminal” leaks that brought down top national security adviser Michael Flynn.
In a 2018 indictment, special counsel Robert Mueller accused 13 Russians of an elaborate plot to disrupt the 2016 US presidential election with a massive but secret social media trolling campaign aimed in part at helping Donald Trump.
In 2023, after 60 years in baseball, St. Tim McCarver, the All-Star catcher and Hall of Fame broadcaster who won two World Series championships with the St. Louis Cardinals, has died at age 81.
Today’s birthdays: Jazz/pop singer-actor Peggy King 94. Actor William Katt 73. Actor LeVar Burton 67. Actor-rapper Ice-T 66. International Tennis Hall of Fame member John McEnroe 65. Rock musician Andy Taylor 63. Rock musician Dave Lombardo (Slayer) is 59. Actor Sarah Clarke is 53. Olympic gold medalist runner Cathy Freeman is 51. Actor Mahershala Ali is 50. Rapper Lupe Fiasco is 42. Actor Chloe Wepper is 38. Pop-rock singer Ryan Follese (Hot Chelle Rae) is 37. Sen. John Ossoff, D-Ga., is 37. Rock musician Danielle Haim is 35. Actor Elizabeth Olsen is 35.
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