By The Associated Press

                     - Today is Tuesday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 1999. There are 318 days
                       left in the year.

                     - On Feb. 16, 1862, during the Civil War, some 14,000 Confederate
                       soldiers surrendered at Fort Donelson, Tenn.
                     - In 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.
                     - In 1868, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized
                       in New York City.
                     - In 1918, Lithuania proclaimed its independence.
                     - In 1923, the burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed
                       tomb was unsealed in Egypt.
                     - In 1937, Dr. Wallace H. Carothers, a research chemist for DuPont who
                       invented nylon, received a patent for the synthetic fiber.
                     - In 1945, American troops landed on the island of Corregidor in the
                       Philippines during World War II.
                     - In 1948, NBC began airing its first nightly newscast, "The Camel
                       Newsreel Theatre," which consisted of Fox Movietone newsreels.
                     - In 1959, Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba after the overthrow of
                       Fulgencio Batista.
                     - In 1968, the nation's first 911 emergency telephone system was
                       inaugurated, in Haleyville, Ala.
                     - In 1987, John Demjanjuk went on trial in Jerusalem, accused of being
                       "Ivan the Terrible," a guard at the Treblinka Nazi concentration
                       camp.
                     - Ten years ago: Investigators in Lockerbie, Scotland, said a bomb
                       hidden inside a radio-cassette player was what brought down Pan Am
                       Flight 103 the previous December, killing all 259 people aboard and
                       11 on the ground.
                     - Five years ago: At least 217 people were killed when a powerful
                       earthquake shook Indonesia's Sumatra island. Figure skaters Tonya
                       Harding and Nancy Kerrigan encountered each other at the Winter
                       Olympic Games in Norway before posing for the U.S. team photograph.
                     - One year ago: A China Airlines Airbus A300-600R trying to land in
                       fog near Taipei, Taiwan, crashed, killing all 196 people on board
                       and six people on the ground.

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                     - Singer Patty Andrews is 79.
                     - Movie director John Schlesinger is 73.
                     - Actor Pete Postlethwaite is 53.
                     - Actor William Katt is 48.
                     - Actor James Ingram is 43.
                     - Actor LeVar Burton is 42.
                     - Actor-rapper Ice-T is 41.
                     - Actress Lisa Loring is 41.
                     - Tennis player John McEnroe is 40.
                     - Rock musician Andy Taylor (Duran Duran) is 38.
                     - Singer Sam Salter is 21.