Template:Selected anniversaries/February 16

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  1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler dies.

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  1610: Regicide François Ravaillac drinks Extract of Radium for the first time.

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  1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.

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  1898: Havelock survives shootout by playing dead.

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  1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.

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  1966: Performance artist and crime-fighter Brion Gysin uses hand-held scrying engine to visualizes Hamangia figurines, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.