What Day of the Week

February 16, 2019 is the 47^th day of the year 2019 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 318 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Saturday.

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

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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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• 1866

  Spencer Compton Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington becomes British Secretary of State for War.
• 1937

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

  World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov.
• 1959

  Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
• 1960

  The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
• 1962

  Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
• 1983

  The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
• 1991

  Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
• 1999

  Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.
• 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)
• 1822

  Sir Francis Galton, English explorer, biologist and statistician (d. 1911)
• 1831

  Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (d. 1895)
• 1886

  Van Wyck Brooks, American historian and critic (d. 1963)
• 1898

  Katharine Cornell, American actress (d. 1974)
• 1935

  Sonny Bono, American entertainer politician (d. 1998)
• 1979

  Valentino Rossi, Italian motorcycle racer
• 1984

  Ous Mellouli, Tunisian swimmer
• 1987

  Hasheem Thabeet, American basketball player
• 1991

  Sergio Canales, Spanish footballer

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