What happend on 16th February

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1978

The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).

1972

NBA basketball player Wilt Chamberlain scores 30,000th point.

1970

Joe Frazier starts a heavyweight world boxing champion winning streak with the knock out of Jimmy Ellis in five rounds.

1968

In Haleyville, Alabama the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.

1961

Explorer 9 launched. (See Explorer program)

1959

Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after President Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.

1945

American forces recapture the Bataan Peninsula.

1945

World War II: American forces land on Corregidor island in the Philippines.

1943

World War II: Russia reconquers Kharkov.

1940

Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark, with 299 British prisoners, was boarded in neutral Norwegian waters by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack and the prisoners set free, a breach of Norwegian neutrality at the beginning of World War II.