Today's Date
Monday, February 16, 2026
Time Zone: Europe/London (GMT+00:00)
• Today's Date in numbers: 47
• Week number: 8
• Leap year: No - Next is 2028
• Daylight Saving Time: No
Sunrise, Sunset Times Today
• Sunrise time: 07:16 am
• Sunset time: 05:15 pm
• Day length: 09h 59m
• Source: suntoday.org
Moon Phase Today
• Moon Phase: Waning Crescent
• Illumination: 1%
• Moon Age: 28.81 day(s)
• Source: mooninfo.org
Holidays and National Days Today
Today in History
1978
China and Japan sign a $20 billion trade pact, which is the most important move since the 1972 resumption of diplomatic ties.
1966
The World Council of Churches being held in Geneva, urges immediate peace in Vietnam.
1965
Four persons are held in a plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Bell and the Washington Monument.
1959
Fidel Castro takes the oath as Cuban premier in Havana.
1957
A U.S. flag flies over an outpost in Wilkes Land, Antarctica.
1952
The FBI arrests 10 members of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina.
1951
Stalin contends the U.N. is becoming the weapon of aggressive war.
1945
American paratroopers land on Corregidor, in a campaign to liberate the Philippines.
1942
Tojo outlines Japan’s war aims to the Diet, referring to “new order of coexistence” in East Asia.
1940
The British destroyer HMS Cossack rescues British seamen from a German prison ship, the Altmark, in a Norwegian fjord.
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