Tuesday, February 16, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

FEBRUARY 16

1923:After some 3,000 years of undisturbed peace, King Tutankhamen’s inner tomb is unsealed by Howard Carter in Egypt.

1804:
Lt. Stephen Decatur and his men enter Tripoli harbor undetected and set fire to the USS Philadelphia, which had been captured by pirates.

1937:
Wallace Carothers, a DuPont chemist, patents nylon.

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