What day of the week was February 16, 1999?

The day of the week February 16th, 1999 fell on was a Tuesday.

Michael Larson the American game show contestant on Press Your Luck (b. 1949) died on this day in 1999.

In Uzbekistan the a bomb explodes and gunfire is heard at the government headquarters in an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov. Across Europe the Kurdish rebels take over embassies and hold hostages after Turkey arrests one of their rebel leaders, Abdullah Öcalan.