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Events on February 16

• 1807 In Weimar, Goethe's play Torquato Tasso is premiered and praised by the critics in the highest terms.
• 1919 During the election of the constituent National Assembly in Austria, women are allowed to vote for the first time. The Social Democratic Workers' Party becomes the strongest party with 40.8 %, ahead of the Christian Social parties.
• 1923 Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon open the burial chamber of Tutankhamun, the ancient Egyptian king of the 18th Dynasty, in tomb KV62, which Carter discovered on 4 November of the previous year in the Valley of the Kings.
• 1925 The state of emergency in Bavaria, which had been in force since the Hitler-Ludendorff coup of 1923, is lifted. This clears the way for the refoundation of the NSDAP.
• 1959 Fidel Castro is acclaimed as head of government in Cuba and holds this office for 49 years, until he relinquishes power to his brother Raúl for health reasons in 2008.
• 1962 On the night of 17 February, a severe storm surge hits northern Germany, claiming more than 300 lives in the severely affected Hamburg alone.
• 1964 Willy Brandt succeeds Erich Ollenhauer as chairman of the SPD. He holds this office until 1987.
• 1967 The first helicopter with a rigid rotor head, the Bölkow Bo 105, makes its maiden flight.
• 1987 Former Flick manager Eberhard von Brauchitsch is sentenced to two years on probation in the Flick affair trial in Bonn. Former federal ministers Hans Friderichs and Otto Graf Lambsdorff are convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to a fine.
• 2001 Federal President Johannes Rau signs the Same-Sex Partnership Act. Once it enters into force, homosexuals may enter into a state-recognized marriage-like partnership.
• 2005 The Kyoto Protocol, adopted in 1997, in which the signatory states commit to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, enters into force.
• 2017 The British feature film T2 Trainspotting opens in German cinemas.

Born on February 16

• 1856 Rudolph Karstadt, German textile entrepreneur
• 1911 Agnes Kraus, German actress
• 1931 Alfred Kolleritsch, Austrian writer and lyricist
• 1932 Aharon Appelfeld, Israeli writer
• 1941 Kim Jong-Il, former North Korean head of state
• 1952 Wolfgang Lippert, German singer, presenter and entertainer
• 1961 Carl-Eduard von Bismarck, German entrepreneur and politician
• 1970 Peter Schlickenrieder, German cross-country skier
• 1990 The Weeknd, Canadian singer
• 2000 Lena Urzendowsky, German actress

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „16. Februar“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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