February 16th

• 1659

  First known bank check (£400) written, now displayed at Westminster Abbey. View Post →

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• 1861

  Abraham Lincoln thanks 11-year-old Grace Bedell for advising him to grow a beard.

• 1909

  NYC's first subway car with side doors enters service.

• 1923

  Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's tomb, revealing the Pharaoh's sarcophagus.

• 1946

  First commercially designed helicopter tested in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

• 1961

  China activates its first nuclear reactor.

• 1992

  Goodyear blimps, formerly silver, are repainted yellow & blue.

• 2016

  China relocates 9,000 people for the FAST telescope, seeking extraterrestrial life.

• 2021

  Athens and other parts of Greece experience unusual heavy snowfall.

• 1959

  Fidel Castro becomes Prime Minister of Cuba following the Cuban Revolution.