On this day …
February 16, 2015
- In 1852, Studebaker Brothers wagon company was established.
- In 1874, the silver dollar became legal U.S. tender.
- In 1923, Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of King Tutankhamun.
- In 1937, Wallace H. Carothers received a U.S. patent for nylon.
- In 1945, American forces landed on Corregidor Island in the Philippines.
- In 1968, the first 911 emergency telephone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala.
- In 2005, the NHL canceled the entire 2004-2005 season because of a labor dispute.
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