"On Feb. 16, 1923, the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt by English archaeologist Howard Carter. Also on this date: In 1862, the Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee ended with the surrender of some 12,000 Confederate soldiers; Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's victory earned him the moniker Unconditional Surrender Grant. In 1959, Fidel Castro was sworn in as premier of Cuba, six weeks after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown and fled the country into exile."
"In 1996, 11 people were killed in a fiery collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a Maryland commuter train in Silver Spring, Maryland. In 2018, special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russians and three Russian companies on charges of staging an elaborate plot to disrupt the 2016 U.S. presidential election via a social media trolling campaign, aimed in part at helping Donald Trump win the presidency."
On Feb. 16, 1923 the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt by Howard Carter. In 1862 the Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee ended with the surrender of some 12,000 Confederate soldiers, giving Ulysses S. Grant the moniker Unconditional Surrender Grant. In 1959 Fidel Castro was sworn in as Cuba's premier, marking the start of Cuba's transformation toward communism. In 1960 the nuclear submarine USS Triton departed New London on the first submerged circumnavigation. Later entries note a deadly 1996 train collision, the 2018 Mueller indictments of Russian operatives, and Alexei Navalny's 2024 death. Notable birthdays listed include Carl Icahn, Eckhart Tolle, LeVar Burton, Ice-T, John McEnroe, Jerome Bettis, Cathy Freeman, Mahershala Ali, and Lupe Fiasco.
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