Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/February 16
February 16: Statehood Day in Lithuania (1918).
- 1804 – Lt. Stephen Decatur led a raid to destroy the captured USS Philadelphia in Tripoli, denying her use to the Barbary States in the First Barbary War.
- 1918 – The Council of Lithuania signed the Act of Independence of Lithuania, proclaiming the restoration of an independent Lithuania governed by democratic principles, despite the presence of German troops in the country during World War I.
- 1923 – English archaeologist and Egyptologist Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun (mummy mask pictured), an Egyptian Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty.
- 1985 – "The Hizballah Program", the manifesto of Hezbollah, was released, describing the ideology of the Shia Islamic political and paramilitary organization.
- 2005 – The Kyoto Protocol, an amendment to the international treaty on climate change, entered into force.
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