16th February » The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago, Illinois). 17th February » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army known as Provisional IRA detonates an incendiary bomb at the La Mon restaurant bombing or La Mon restaurant, near Belfast, killing 12 and seriously injuring 30.

18th February » Sampit conflict Inter-ethnic violence between Dayak people Dayaks and Madura Island Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Indonesia, that will ultimately result in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes. 19th February » The Oklahoma City bombing museum is dedicated at the Oklahoma City National Memorial.

What Happened 65 years ago in 1957 Important News and Events, Key Technology and Popular Culture ... 3 1967 May 16th United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) are ordered to leave Egypt by the Egyptian government ... Andrei Gromyko was appointed as the Soviet Union's Minister of Foreign Affairs in February . Gromyko had worked his way up the Soviet ...

Tulip mania (Dutch: tulpenmanie) was a period during the Dutch Golden Age when contract prices for some bulbs of the recently introduced and fashionable tulip reached extraordinarily high levels. The major acceleration started in 1634 and then dramatically collapsed in February 1637. It is generally considered to have been the first recorded speculative bubble or asset bubble in …