Stay updated with breaking news from Surrender Grant. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
Almanacs are full of lists of global and national historic events. But “This Day in History” feature invites you to not just peruse a list, but to take a trip back in time to see how a significant event originally was reported in the Chicago Tribune.
On this day, Feb. 16 ... 2014: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, during a visit to Indonesia, calls climate change perhaps the "most fearsome" destructive weapon and mocks those who denies its existence or questioned its causes, comparing them to people who insist the Earth is flat. Also on this day: 1804: Lt. Stephen Decatur leads a successful raid into Tripoli Harbor to burn the U.S. Navy frigate Philadelphia, which had fallen into the hands of pirates during the First Barbary War. 1862: The Civil War Battle of Fort Donelson in Tennessee ends as some 12,000 Confederate soldiers sur...
Today is Tuesday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2021. There are 318 days left in the year.