Today In History For February 16th

Today is Wednesday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2011. There are 318 days left in the year.

On Feb. 16, 1968, the nation's first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated, in Haleyville, Ala.

The burial chamber of King Tutankhamen's recently unearthed tomb was unsealed in Egypt by English archaeologist Howard Carter on this day In 1923.

The year was 1959, and on this day Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba a month and a-half after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.