Today is Sunday, February 16, the forty seventh day of 2025. 318 days are left.

Today in history:

On February 16, 1959, Fidel Castro was sworn in as Prime Minister Cuba, six weeks after the dictator Fulgencio Batista announced his resignation and the country fled into exile.

Also on this date:

The Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee resulted in 1862 with the handover of around 12,000 soldiers of the Confederated Confederated. Union General Ulysses S. Grant's victory brought him the nickname “unconditional transfer scholarship”.

In 1960 the USS Triton left the atom -u boat in the course of the first circulation through a ship in New London, Connecticut.

In 1996, eleven people were killed in a fiery collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a Maryland commuter train in Silver Spring, Maryland.

In 2018, the special advisor Robert Mueller and three Russian corporations were accused of disturbing the US presidential elections in 2016 via a trolling campaign for social media, a few of which aimed to win Donald Trump, which was partly geared toward in 2018 To win presidency.

In 2024, the Russian prison authority announced that Alexei Navalny, activist and Russian opposition leader, died in Arctic criminal colony wherein he condemned a 19-year prison sentence for extremism. The news brought outrage and criticism from the leaders of the world to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Today's birthdays:

• Businessman Carl Icahn is 89.
• Author Eckhart Toller is 77.
• Actor William Katt is 74.
• Model TV personality Janice Dickinson is 70.
• Actor Levar Burton is 68.
• Actor rapper ICE-T is 67.
• Tennis Hall of Famer John Mcenroe is 66.
• Famer Jerome Betti's football hall is 53.
• The Olympics light athletics Cathy Freeman is 52.
• Actor Mahershala Ali is 51.
• Rapper Lupe Fiasco is 43.
• Senator John Ossoff, D-GA., Is 38.
• Actor Elizabeth Olsen is 36.
• Weeknd singer actor is 35.

Today is Sunday, November seventeenth, the 322nd day of 2024. There are 44 days left within the yr.

Today in history:

On November 17, 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Austrian-born actor who became considered one of America's biggest film stars within the Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties, was sworn in because the thirty eighth Governor of California.

Also on this date:

In 1800, Congress held its first session within the partially accomplished U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC

In 1973, President Richard Nixon told a gathering of Associated Press senior editors at a televised news conference in Orlando, Florida: “People need to find out whether their president is a crook or not.” Well, I'm not a crook. “

In 1968, the final minutes of a thrilling NFL game on NBC between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders were previewed by the children's film “Heidi.” The broadcaster received thousands of calls from angry viewers and officially apologized.

In 1989, an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 Czechoslovak students demonstrated in Prague against communist rule; Hundreds of thousands joined the protests in the following days. The protests, dubbed the “Velvet Revolution” due to their nonviolent nature, led to the resignation of the Communist Party leadership on November 28.

In 1997, 62 people, most of them foreign tourists, were killed when militants opened fire on the Temple of Hatshepsut (haht-shehp-SOOT') in Luxor, Egypt; The attackers were killed by the police.

In 2020, President Donald Trump fired the nation's top election security official, Christopher Krebs, who refuted Trump's baseless claims of voter fraud and vouched for the integrity of the vote.

Today's birthdays:

• Film director Martin Scorsese (skor-SEH'-see) is 82.
• Actress and model Lauren Hutton is 81.
• Actor and director Danny DeVito is 80.
• Basketball Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim is 80.
• “Saturday Night Live” producer Lorne Michaels is 80.
• Basketball Hall of Famer Elvin Hayes is 79.
• Film director Roland Joffe is 79.
• Former House Speaker John Boehner (BAY'-NUR) is 75.
• Actor Stephen Root is 73.
• TV presenter and entertainer RuPaul is 64.
• Actor Dylan Walsh is 61.
• TV presenter Daisy Fuentes is 58.
• R&B singer Ronnie DeVoe (New Edition; Bell Biv DeVoe) is 57.
• Actress Rachel McAdams is 46.