📜 This Day in History
February 16
1249King Louis IX dispatched André de Longjumeau as the French ambassador to the Mongol Empire.- 1859The French government passed a law setting the musical note A4 to a frequency of 435 hertz, in the first attempt to standardize concert pitch.
- 1918The Council of Lithuania signed the Act of Independence, proclaiming the restoration of an independent Lithuania.
- 1959Fidel Castro was sworn in as Prime Minister of Cuba, beginning his decades-long rule over the country.
- 1985The Lebanese Shia political and paramilitary organization Hezbollah released a manifesto describing its ideology and goals.
- 2013At least 91 people were killed and 190 others injured after a bomb hidden in a water tank exploded at a market in Hazara Town, Pakistan.
