On This Day: February 16th

Five thousand people gathered in the town of Kherrata, Bejaia Province to mark the second anniversary of the Hirak protest movement. Demonstrations had been suspended because of the COVID-19 pandemic in Algeria.

A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.

The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.

The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia.

The National Hockey League cancels the entire 2004–05 regular season and playoffs.

Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 crashes near Sacramento Mather Airport in Rancho Cordova, California, killing all three aboard.

China Airlines Flight 676 crashes into a road and residential area near Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, killing all 196 aboard and six more on the ground.

A Chicago-bound Amtrak train, the Capitol Limited, collides with a MARC commuter train bound for Washington, D.C., killing 11 people.

Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.

The Soviet liner MS Mikhail Lermontov runs aground in the Marlborough Sounds, New Zealand.