Time Capsule: February 16th, 2/16/2006, 12:30 am

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Reminder from the Calendar of

Time Capsule: February 16th

Thursday February 16, 2006

12:30 am

- 12:30 am

This event repeats every year.

Notes:

On this day in0374, the ninth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet took place.1659, the first known check was written (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey).1840, American Wilkes discovered the Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica. 1923, found Pharoah Tutankhamen. Noteworthy people born on this day:In 1834: Ernst Heinrich Haeckel, Potsdam Germany, biologist (Causes of Evolution).In 1848: Hugo de Vries, Dutch botanist (How species emerge).

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