February 16

 Holidays and Observances
(Alphabetical Order)

2025 Daily Holidays that fall on February 16, include:

• Daytona 500 - February 16, 2025
• Daytona Pole Day - February 16, 2025
• Do a Grouch a Favor Day 
  
• Elizabeth Peratrovich Day - (Local Observance in Alaska)
• Innovation Day 
• Kyoto Protocol Day
• National Almond Day 
• NBA All Star Game - February 16, 2025
  
• Tim Tam Day 
• World Whale Day - February 15, 2025 (Third Sunday in February)

2025 Weekly Holidays that include February 16, are:

• Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Staff Education Week - February 14-21
• Bird Health Awareness Week - February 16-22, 2025 (Last Full Week of February)
• Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week - February 16-22, 2025 (Third Week in February)
• Build a Better Trade Show Image Week - February 16-22, 2025 (Third Full Week in February)
• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week - February 13-19
  
• Girl Scout Cookie Weekend - February 14-16, 2025 (Third Weekend in February) 
  
• Great Backyard Bird Count - February 14-17, 2025
  
• Love Teaching Week - February 14-21
  
• Make Mine Chocolate - (Campaign kicks off annually on Feb 15, and ends on Easter which is April 20, 2025)
  
• National Condom Week - February 14-21
  
• National Date Week (Fruit) - February 11-20
• National Engineer's Week - February 16-22, 2025 (Third Full Week in February)
• National FFA Week - February 15-22, 2025 (Runs Saturday to Saturday and has February 22, George Washington's birthday in the week)
  
• National Green Week - February 4 - April 30, 2025 (Start First Full Week in February to April 30)
  
• National Justice for Animals Week - February 16-22, 2025 (Begins on the Fourth Week in February)
• National Nestbox Week - February 14-21
  
• National Sauna Week - February 16-22, 2025 (Last Full Week of February)
• NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week - February 14-21
  
• Random Acts of Kindness Week - February 14-20, 2025 
  
• Real Bread Week - February 15-23, 2025 (Second to Last Saturday to Last Saturday in February)
• Student Volunteering Week (United Kingdom) - February 10-16, 2025
  
• Take a Friend Snowmobiling Week - February 8-17, 2025
• Through with the Chew (Chewing Tobacco) - February 16-22, 2025 (Third Full Week in February)

2025 Monthly Holidays that include February 16, are:

There are too many monthly holidays to include here, so please check out our February Holidays page to see all of the holidays that are celebrated the entire month of February.

NOTE:

1. A page on each holiday will be coming soon and linked above.
2. If a date is a movable holiday, that is different every year, I'll include the year as well as the date rule above. Otherwise, the holiday falls on the same date each year.

World Festivals and Events
(Date Order)

• Harbin Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival - Usually starts annually on January 5, and typically runs for a month or more, in Harbin, China and is the largest ice and snow festival in the world! 2025 dates are December 25, 2024 - Late February / Early March, 2025, depending on weather conditions. 
• Chinese New Year Festival and Parade (San Francisco, CA) - January 29 - February 16, 2025, Parade is on February 15, 2025
  
• Invictus Games - February 8-16, 2025
• Daytona 500 - February 16, 2025
  
• NBA All-Star Game - February 16, 2025

Astrological Sign

The Astrological Sign for February 16 is an Aquarius.

Birth Flower of the Month

The Birth Flower(s) for the Month for February are:

• Violet - symbolizes faithfulness, loyalty, humility, wisdom, and hope
  
• Primrose - Modesty, distinction, and virtue
  
  

Birthstone

The Birthstone for February is Amethyst.

Famous Birthdays

• 1812 – Henry Wilson, American politician, 18th Vice President of the United States (d. 1875)
• 1903 – Edgar Bergen, American ventriloquist (d. 1978)
• 1909 – Richard McDonald, American fast food entrepreneur, who established the first McDonald's restaurant along with his brother in San Bernardino, California (d. 1998)
• 1918 – Patty Andrews, American singer, member of Andrews Sisters (d. 2013)
• 1935 - Sonny Bono, American entertainer (Sonny & Cher), politician (d. 1998)
• 1936 – Jill Kinmont, American skier (d.2012)
• 1952 - James Ingram  American singer, pianist and composer
• 1957 – LeVar Burton, American actor (Roots, Star Trek - The Next Generation, Reading Rainbow)
• 1959 – John McEnroe, American tennis player

Famous Deaths

• 2012 – Gary Carter, American Hall of Fam baseball catcher (b. 1954)

Famous Weddings and Divorces

• 1982 - Lee Majors & Farrah Fawcett Majors divorce
• 1989 - Jane Fonda & Tom Hayden separate after 16 years of marriage

Quote of the Day

As far as I can tell, reading will never go out of style, and neither will good old fashioned storytelling. ~LeVar Burton

LeVar Burton was born on this day in 1957.  He was an American actor who starred in Roots and the Star Trek - The Next Generation movie. He went on to host the  Reading Rainbow, a children's television show that ran from 1983 to 2006. Reading Rainbow  won a Peabody Award and twenty-six Emmy Awards, ten of which were in the "Outstanding Children's Series" category.

Healthy Diet Habit Tip of the Day 
or a Recipe of the Day

The Holidays and Observances Recipe of the Day for February 16, is a Pork Stir Fry Recipe from Kerry, at Healthy Diet Habits.  February 16, is National Almond Day, so you can serve this meal with some slivered almonds on top!

This Day in History

• 1741 - Benjamin Franklin's General Magazine, begins publishing. It is the 2nd US Magazine
  
• 1878 – Silver Dollar becomes legal US tender
• 1883 - Ladies Home Journal begins publishing
• 1909 - The 1st subway car with side doors goes into service in New York City
• 1914 - 1st airplane flight (LA to SF)
• 1923 – Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. (King Tut)
• 1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
• 1946 - The 1st commercially designed helicopter is tested in Bridgeport Connecticut
• 1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1.
• 1962 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people.
• 1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois).
• 2006 – The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

This Day in Music

• 1963 - The Beatles' Please Please Me hit #1 in the UK
• 1968 - Elvis Presley receives gold record for How Great Thou Art
• 1974 - Bob Dylan's album Planet Waves hits #1
• 1974 - Elton John, Bennie And The Jets is released (video below)
  
• 1997 - Michael Jackson sings Elizabeth I Love You, which he wrote for the actress Elizabeth Taylor, at her 65th birthday celebration
• 2011 - Lady GaGa's Born This Way, becomes the Billboard Hot 100 chart's, 1000th number one.

This Day in Sports

• 1936 - 4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
• 1970 - Joe Frazier TKOs Jimmy Ellis in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
• 1972 - 1st NBA to score 30,000 points (Wilt Chamberlain in 940 games during a game with Phoenix Suns)
• 1984 - Bill Johnson becomes 1st American to win Olympic downhill skiing gold
• 2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs.
• 1991 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Tonya Harding

Word of the Day from Wiktionary

Wishing You a Great Day Today!