| 1760 |
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Cherokee Indians held hostage at Fort St. George are killed in revenge for Indian attacks on frontier settlements. |
| 1804 |
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Lt. Stephen Decatur attacks the Tripoli pirates who burned the USS Philadelphia. |
| 1862 |
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Fort Donelson, Tennessee, falls to Grant's Federal forces, but not before Nathan Bedford Forrest escapes. |
| 1865 |
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Columbia, South Carolina, surrenders to Federal troops. |
| 1923 |
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Bessie Smith makes her first recording "Down Hearted Blues." |
| 1934 |
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Thousands of Socialists battle Communists at a rally in New York's Madison Square Garden. |
| 1937 |
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Dupont patents a new thread, nylon, which will replace silk in a number of products and reduce costs. |
| 1940 |
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The British destroyer HMS Cossack rescues British seamen from a German prison ship, the Altmark, in a Norwegian fjord. |
| 1942 |
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Tojo outlines Japan's war aims to the Diet, referring to "new order of coexistence" in East Asia. |
| 1945 |
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American paratroopers land on Corregidor, in a campaign to liberate the Philippines. |
| 1951 |
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Stalin contends the U.N. is becoming the weapon of aggressive war. |
| 1952 |
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The FBI arrests 10 members of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. |
| 1957 |
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A U.S. flag flies over an outpost in Wilkes Land, Antarctica. |
| 1959 |
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Fidel Castro takes the oath as Cuban premier in Havana. |
| 1965 |
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Four persons are held in a plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell and the Washington Monument. |
| 1966 |
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The World Council of Churches being held in Geneva, urges immediate peace in Vietnam. |
| 1978 |
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China and Japan sign a $20 billion trade pact, which is the most important move since the 1972 resumption of diplomatic ties. |
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Born on February 16 |
| 1620 |
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Frederick William, founder of Brandenburg-Prussia. |
| 1838 |
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Henry Adams, U.S. historian, son and grandson of the presidents. |
| 1852 |
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Charles Taze Russell, founder of the International Bible Students Association which later became the Jehovah's Witnesses. |
| 1845 |
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Quinton Hogg, English philanthropist. |
| 1886 |
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Van Wyck Brooks, biographer, critic and literary historian. |
| 1903 |
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Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist and radio comedian. |
| 1904 |
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George Kennan, U.S. diplomat and historian. |
| 1944 |
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Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist (The Sportswriter, Independence Day). |
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