Today is Saturday, Feb. 16, the 47th day of 2019. There are 318 days left in the year.

Birthdays: Jazz/pop singer-actress Peggy King is 89. Actor Jeremy Bulloch is 74. Actor LeVar Burton is 62. Actor-rapper Ice-T is 61. Actress Lisa Loring is 61. International Tennis Hall of Famer John McEnroe is 60. Rock musician Andy Taylor is 58. Rock musician Dave Lombardo (Slayer) is 54. Olympic gold medal runner Cathy Freeman is 46. Actor Mahershala Ali is 45. Rapper Lupe Fiasco is 37. Rock musician Danielle Haim is 30. Actress Elizabeth Olsen is 30.

In 1948, N-B-C T-V began airing its first nightly newscast, ‘‘The Camel Newsreel Theatre,’’ which consisted of Fox Movietone newsreels.

In 1959, Fidel Castro became premier of Cuba a month and a-half after the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista.

In 1961, the United States launched the Explorer 9 satellite.

In 1968, the nation’s first 911 emergency telephone system was inaugurated in Haleyville, Ala., as the speaker of the Alabama House, Rankin Fite, placed a call from the mayor’s office in City Hall to a red telephone at the police station (also located in City Hall) that was answered by US Representative Tom Bevill.

In 1988, seven people were shot to death during an office rampage in Sunnyvale, Calif., by a man obsessed with a co-worker who was wounded in the attack.

In 2001, Dr. William H. Masters, who with his partner and later wife Virginia Johnson, pioneered research in the field of human sexuality, died in Tucson at age 85.

In 2003, more than 100,000 people demonstrated in the streets of San Francisco to protest a possible US invasion of Iraq.

In 2014, US Secretary of State John Kerry, during a visit to Indonesia, called climate change perhaps the ‘‘most fearsome’’ destructive weapon and mocked those who denied its existence or questioned its causes, comparing them to people who insist the earth is flat.

Last year, the FBI said it had received a tip in January that the suspect in the Florida school shooting had a ‘‘desire to kill’’ and access to guns, but agents failed to investigate. President Trump visited Florida, where he saw two survivors of the school shooting that left 17 people dead and thanked doctors and nurses who helped the wounded.