February 16

Today's Events

  • 1600
    Giordano Bruno - advocate of Copernican theory & plurality of worlds - is burned at the stake by the Inquisition in Rome
  • 1862
    Ft. Donelson captured by Gen. Grant
  • 1883
    Ladies Home Journal begins publication
  • 1914
    1st airplane flight to LA from SF
  • 1918
    Lithuania declares independence from Germany
  • 1923
    Howard Carter finds the Pharoah Tutankhamun
  • 1937
    Nylon patented - WH Carothers
  • 1938
    US Federal Crop Insurance program authorized
  • 1945
    US forces land on Corregidor - complete conquest on March 3
  • 1946
    1st commercially designed helicopter tested - Bridgeport Ct
  • 1951
    SF City Hall dome fire
  • 1961
    1st all solid propellant rocket put in orbit-Wallops Island - Va
  • 1964
    Beatles second appearance on Ed Sullivan
Website Development and Hosting by MAB Web Intelligence
Close

Add Factmobile to your Website

Copy the code below, and paste it on your website wherever you'd like it to appear. Feel free to change any of the style information so that it better integrates with your website. You can change the colors of the content itself by adding arguments to the link, in the src attribute of the iframe. Send valid hex values, after the key. The valid keys are:

Example:
src="http://www.factmobile.com/ajax.php?gadget=tdih&text=333333&header=666666"
The above creates a link with dark grey text and a lighter grey header.