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Sunday February 16, 2014 This is the 47th day of the year, with 318 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: boysenberry The boysenberry, a large reddish-purple berry, is a hybrid plant species created by Rudolph Boysen in 1923 in California. It was developed by crossing the blackberry, red raspberry, and loganberry. Walter Knott, a berry expert of the famous Knott's Berry Farm, transplanted the boysenberry plant onto his farm after Rudolph Boysen abandoned his growing experiment. In 1935 Knott began selling the berries at his California farm, naming the berry after its originator. The boysenberry grew in popularity and became a trademark of the Knott's Berry Farm. All boysenberries in the world can be traced to Knott's Berry Farm.
Holidays Feast day of Flavian, St. Juliana of Cumae, St. Onesimus the Slave, St. Gilbert of Sempringham, and Saints Elias, Jeremy, and their Companions.
Lithuania: Independence Day.
Events 1804 - Lt. Stephen Decatur led a successful raid into Tripoli harbor to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands of pirates.
1862 - During the Civil War, some 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered at Fort Donelson, Tennessee.
1868 - The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized, in New York City.
1918 - Lithuania proclaimed its independence.
1923 - The burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt.
1932 - The first fruit tree patent was issued to James E. Markham, for a peach tree.
1937 - Dupont patented a new thread, nylon.
1948 - NBC-TV presented the first daily newsreel telecast: "20th Century Fox - Movietone News."
1959 - Fidel Castro was sworn in as prime minister of Cuba after leading a guerrilla campaign that forced right-wing dictator Fulgencio Batista into exile.
1968 - The nation's first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system was inaugurated, in Haleyville, Alabama.
1985 - Sheik Ibrahim al-Amin issued Hezbollah's manifesto.
2005 - The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season, becoming the first major sports league in North America to do so over a labor dispute.
Births 1893 - Katherine Cornell, the American stage actress who was called the "First Lady of the American Theater."
1903 - Edgar Bergen (born Edgar Bergren), American actor, ventriloquist, radio star.
1935 - Sonny Bono (born Salvatore Phillip Bono), American entertainer and congressman.
1959 - John McEnroe, American professional tennis player.
Deaths 1823 - Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French painter.
2007 - Robert Adler, co-inventor of the TV remote control.
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