On this day: February 16

February 16: Statehood Day in Lithuania (1918); Day of the Shining Star in North Korea

Mask of Tutankhamun

• 1270 – Livonian Crusade: In the Battle of Karuse, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania achieved a decisive victory over the Livonian Order on the frozen surface of the Baltic Sea.
• 1862 – American Civil War: Union victory in the Battle of Fort Donelson gave General Ulysses S. Grant the nickname "Unconditional Surrender".
• 1923 – Howard Carter, the English Egyptologist and archaeologist, unsealed the burial chamber of Tutankhamun (mask pictured).
• 1943 – Second World War: Norwegian commandos destroyed a factory to prevent the German nuclear weapon project from acquiring heavy water.
• 1961 – The DuSable Museum, the first museum dedicated to the study and conservation of African American history, culture, and art, was chartered.

Richard of Dover (d.1184); Heinz-Wolfgang Schnaufer (b.1922)

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