Today is Saturday, February 16, the 47th day of 2008. There are 319 days left in the year.
0374 _ Ninth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1349 _ Jews are expelled from Burgsdorf Switzerland
1840 _ American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica
1913 _ President Taft agrees not to intervene in Mexico
1918 _ Lithuania declares independence from Russia and Germany (National Day)
1961 _ China uses its first nuclear reactor
1968 _ Elvis Presley receives gold record for ``How Great Thou Art"
1989 _ Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and North Yemen form common market
1989 _ Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage
1991 _ U.S. female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding
1992 _ Los Angeles Lakers retire Magic Johnson's No.32 uniform