Anonymous ID: b9984c Feb. 16, 2022, 11:24 a.m. No.15643361   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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On This Day - Feb 16

 

1659 1st known cheque written (£400), now on display at Westminster Abbey

1840 American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1923 Howard Carter opens the inner burial chamber of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb and finds the sarcophagus

1941 Kim Jong II, North Korean political leader, is born.

1959 Fidel Castro becomes the 16th Prime Minister of Cuba after overthrowing Fulgencio Batista

2005 The Kyoto Protocol comes into force following its ratification by Russia committing industrialized nations to limit and reduce greenhouse gases

 

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