What Day of the Week

February 16, 2018 was the 47^th day of the year 2018 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 318 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Friday.

If you are trying to learn Spanish then this day of the week in Spanish is viernes.

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Here’s the February calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Aquarius is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Amethyst is the modern birthstone for this month. Bloodstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 116

  Emperor Trajan sends laureatae to the Roman Senate at Rome on account of his victories and being conqueror of Parthia.
• 1249

  Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by Louis IX of France as his ambassador to meet with Mongol Khagan of the Mongol Empire.
• 1936

  Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain.
• 1937

  Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
• 1943

  World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov.
• 1945

  World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
• 1959

  Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
• 1961

  The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered.
• 1985

  Hezbollah is founded.
• 1999

  New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Earth Rabbit in Chinese astrology.

• 1497

  Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (d. 1560)
• 1519

  Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (d. 1572)
• 1847

  Philipp Scharwenka, Polish-German composer (d. 1917)
• 1887

  Kathleen Clifford, American actress (d. 1962)
• 1891

  Hans F. K. Günther, German eugenicist (d. 1967)
• 1925

  Carlos Paredes, Portuguese guitarist (d. 2004)
• 1932

  Harry Goz, American actor (d. 2003)
• 1938

  John Corigliano, American composer
• 1961

  Eric Red, American screenwriter and director
• 1982

  Lupe Fiasco, American hip hop artist

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