| 18211 | February 16 | Event | 1934 – The Austrian Civil War ends with the defeat of the Social Democrats and the Republikanischer Schutzbund. |
| 18212 | February 16 | Event | 1936 – Elections bring the Popular Front to power in Spain. |
| 18213 | February 16 | Event | 1937 – Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon. |
| 18214 | February 16 | Event | 1940 – World War II: Altmark Incident: The German tanker Altmark is boarded by sailors from the British destroyer HMS Cossack. 299 British prisoners are freed. |
| 18215 | February 16 | Event | 1943 – World War II: Red Army troops re-enter Kharkov. |
| 18216 | February 16 | Event | 1943 – World War II: Insertion of Operation Gunnerside, Norway. |
| 18217 | February 16 | Event | 1945 – World War II: American forces land on Corregidor Island in the Philippines. |
| 18218 | February 16 | Event | 1957 – The "Toddlers' Truce", a controversial television close down between 6.00 pm and 7.00 pm is abolished in the United Kingdom. |
| 18219 | February 16 | Event | 1959 – Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba after dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown on January 1. |
| 18220 | February 16 | Event | 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. |
| 18221 | February 16 | Event | 1961 – Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched. |
| 18222 | February 16 | Event | 1961 – The DuSable Museum of African American History is chartered. |
| 18223 | February 16 | Event | 1962 – Flooding in the coastal areas of West Germany kills 315 and destroys the homes of about 60,000 people. |
| 18224 | February 16 | Event | 1968 – In Haleyville, Alabama, the first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system goes into service. |
| 18225 | February 16 | Event | 1978 – The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago). |
| 18226 | February 16 | Event | 1983 – The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75. |
| 18227 | February 16 | Event | 1985 – Hezbollah is founded. |
| 18228 | February 16 | Event | 1986 – The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand. |
| 18229 | February 16 | Event | 1987 – The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem. |
| 18230 | February 16 | Event | 1991 – Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. |
| 18231 | February 16 | Event | 1998 – China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and seven more on the ground. |
| 18232 | February 16 | Event | 1999 – In Uzbekistan, a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islom Karimov. |
| 18233 | February 16 | Event | 1999 – Across Europe, Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan. |
| 18234 | February 16 | Event | 2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia. |
| 18235 | February 16 | Event | 2005 – The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs. |
| 18236 | February 16 | Event | 2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army. |
| 18237 | February 16 | Event | 2013 – A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town in Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others. |
| 18238 | February 16 | Event | 2015 – A CSX train crashes in Mount Carbon, West Virginia resulting in large fires. |
| 18239 | February 16 | Birth | 1032 – Emperor Yingzong of Song (d. 1067) |
| 18240 | February 16 | Birth | 1304 – Jayaatu Khan, Emperor Wenzong of Yuan (d. 1332) |