February 16

It's February 16th

On this day in 1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.



In 1961 - Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.


In 1968 – In Haleyville, AL, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service.


In 1974 - Planet Waves becomes the first Bob Dylan album to reach #1 in the US.


Birthdays

John Tartaglia

Mahershala Ali
on Tubi

Naomi Nishida

Sarah Clarke
in "The Maestro"

Christopher Eccleston
on Tubi

John Balance


"Coil Interview about the Occult - UK 2000 (Peter Christopherson / John Balance)"

Warren Ellis
"Atmospherics"
"Orbiter"

Pete Willis


Ice-T








LeVar Burton


Margaux Hemingway
as Gabrielle in "Killer Fish"

The Monthly Film Bulletin stated that the film "appears to have a greater budget than Piranha" and that it "exhibits considerably less imagination".
as Karmen in "They Call Me Bruce?"

Roger Ebert wrote They Call Me Bruce? had a few funny scenes, but the main flaw was being "a satire of a nearly satire-proof genre. Real kung-fu movies are so implausible and so inane that it's hard to make a satire"

James Ingram



William Katt
as "The Greatest American Hero"

Richard Ford
"Rock Springs" Short Story Collection

Paul Bailey
"At the Jerusalem"

Kenneth Price
"Hot Bottoms"


Stephen Gaskin
"Monday Night Class"
"The Caravan"
"Mind at Play"
"American Commune" A Documentary about "The Farm"

Gretchen Wyler
as Aunt Kissy in Private Benjamin

Otis Blackwell


June Brown
as Mrs. Pettibone in "Psychomania"


James Schlesinger


Peter Porter
"A Porter Selected" (Selected Poems)

James Baskett
as Lazerus in "Revenge of the Zombies"

Chester Morris
on the Internet Archive
as Dr. Carlo Lombardi in "The She-Creature"


Wayne King


Kathleen Clifford
in "When the Clouds Roll By"

Robert. J. Flaherty

Pamela Colman Smith





(Sidequest activated: Walter Wegmüller - "Tarot")

Armand Guillaumin
"La Place Valhubert"


Octave Mirbeau
"Anarchism in France : the case of Octave Mirbeau" by Reg Carr

Lars Hertervig
"Old Pine Trees"


Phineas Quimby
"The Healing Wisdom of Dr. P.P.Quimby"

Kanō Eitoku
"Flowers and Birds of the Four Seasons"

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