February 16: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

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1. 1852 - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.
2. 1874 - Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender.
3. 1923 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
4. 1937 - Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
5. 1959 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
6. 1960 - The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail fromNew London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
7. 1961 - Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
8. 1968 - In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.
9. 1978 - The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).
10. 2005 - The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.
11. Famous Birthdays: Nichiren (Japanese monk), Pierre Bouguer (French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer), Henry Wilson (American politician, 18th Vice President of the United States), Heinrich Barth (German explorer and scholar), Francis Galton (English biologist and statistician)

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