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Today In History - August 16 |
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On This Date in History |
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1290 Charles van Valois 1465 Battle at Montlhery 1513 Battle at Eguinegatte/Guinegate 1570 King Janos Sigismund Zapolyai signs a secret treaty with Maximilian II 1625 Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz is appointed Viceroy of Drenthe 1691 Yorktown, Virginia is founded 1717 Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade 1777 Americans defeat the British in the Battle of Bennington, Vermont 1780 The British decisively defeat the Americans in the Battle of Camden 1794 Hungarian revolutionary Ignac Martinovics is arrested in Vienna 1812 General Hull surrenders the Detroit and Michigan territories to England 1819 The Manchester Massacre 1829 Siamese twins Chang and Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited 1834 Evolutionist Charles Darwin climbs Mt. Campana in Chile 1846 Gioacchino Rossini marries Olympe Pelissier in Paris, France 1858 Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs President James Buchanan 1861 President Lincoln prohibits the Union states from trading with the Confederacy 1861 Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirksville, Missouri 1863 The Chickamauga campaign (Georgia) 1863 The Emancipation Proclamation is signed 1864 The Battle of Front Royal Virginia (Guard Hill) 1864 The Palace for People's Industry officially opens in Amsterdam 1870 Fred Goldsmith demonstrates that the curve ball isn't just an optical illusion 1882 The British, under General Wolsley, land in Alexandria 1890 Alexander Clark is named minister to Liberia 1894 Chiefs from the Sioux and Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity and return to their Indian faith 1896 Gold is discovered in the Klondike (Alaska) 1898 Edwin Prescott patents the roller coaster 1904 New York City begins building Grand Central Station 1906 An 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile: 20,000 people die 1914 Zapata and Pancho Villa are overrun in Mexico 1924 Conference about German recovery payments opens in London 1924 Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed 1936 The 11th Olympic Games close in Berlin 1940 45 German aircraft are shot down over England 1942 Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow 1943 The Bulgarian Czar, Boris III, visits with Adolf Hitler 1944 The 2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise, Normandy 1946 The Great Calcutta Blood Bath: Moslem and Hindu riot where 3,000 - 4,000 people die 1948 Arabs blow up the Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem 1953 Shah of Persia and princess Soraya flee to Baghdad and Rome 1954 Sports Illustrated magazine begins publishing 1955 Fiat Motors orders the first private atomic reactor 1956 Adlai E. Stevenson is nominated as Democratic presidential candidate 1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open 1959 The U.S.S.R. introduces installment buying 1960 Britain grants independence to the Crown Colony of Cyprus 1960 Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon: 84,700' 1960 The Republic of Congo forms 1961 250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin 1961 Martin Luther King protests for black voting rights in Miami 1962 Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatles' drummer 1963 Independence is restored to the Dominican Republic 1969 The Woodstock rock festival begins in New York 1972 The U.S.S.R. performs a nuclear test 1977 The U.S. performs nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site 1983 Singer Paul Simon weds actress Carrie Fisher 1984 The sunken Andrea Doria's safe is opened 1984 An L.A. federal jury acquits John DeLorean of cocaine charges 1985 Madonna weds Sean Penn (it's her 27th birthday) 1986 Sudanese rebels shoot down a Fokker's F-27 killing 57 people 1987 The Astrological Harmonic Convergence: Dawn of the New Age 1987 A Northwest Airlines plane crashes in Detroit: 156 people die and 1 lives 1988 IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence (AI) 1988 Jailed black nationalist Nelson Mandela is diagnosed with tuberculosis 1988 Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers 1990 China performs a nuclear test 1991 President Bush declares that the recession is near an end 1994 Shauna Gambill is crowned Miss Teen USA |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1645 Jean de La Bruyere 1666 Henriette Amalia 1763 Frederick of York 1769 Jean Aime Vernier 1776 Philipp Jakob Riotte 1795 Heinrich August Marschner 1831 Edward Payson Chapin 1832 Wilhelm Wundt 1836 John Farmer 1837 Emile A H Seipgens 1845 Gabriel Lippmann 1846 Justus van Maurik 1860 Jules Laforgue 1860 Lord Hawke 1862 Amos Alonzo Stagg 1863 Henry Constant Gabriel Pierne 1864 Ferdinand C. S. Schiller 1867 Antonio Nobre 1868 Bernard MacFadden 1868 Charles Sanford Skilton 1871 Zakhary Petrovich Paliashvili 1874 Arthur Meighen 1877 Karl L. Hoschna 1879 Ethel Barrymore 1884 Hugo Gernsback 1885 Charles Carson 1887 Nadia Boulanger 1892 Harold Foster 1894 George Meany 1895 Jacinto Guerrero 1895 Lucien Littlefield 1897 Robert Ringling 1897 Vicente Ascone 1899 Glenn Strange 1907 Alexander Uriah Boskovich 1907 Mae Clarke 1909 Paul Smith Callaway 1912 Marga A.M. Klompe 1912 Ted Drake 1913 Menachem Begin 1914 Tullio Pandolfini 1915 Al Hibbler 1920 Charles Bukowski 1922 Louis E Lomax 1923 Joe Hutton 1923 Shimon Peres 1925 Fess Parker 1928 Ann Blyth 1928 Eddie Kirkland 1929 Bill Evans 1930 Frank Gifford 1930 Marion A. Trabert 1930 Robert Culp 1930 Ted Hughes 1930 Tony Trabert 1932 Jon Lindbergh 1933 Reiner Kunze 1934 Diana Wynne Jones 1934 Ketty Lester 1935 Betsy von Furstenberg 1935 Julie Newmar 1936 Anita Gillette 1936 Gary Clarke 1937 David Behrman 1937 Lorraine Gary 1938 Andras Balczo 1938 Oleg Grigoryevich Kononenko 1939 Carol Shelley 1939 Valeri V. Ryumin 1939 Wim Meijer 1944 Dick Zimmer 1945 Bob Balaban 1945 Gary Loizzo 1945 Kevin Ayers 1945 Suzanne Farrell 1946 Lesley Ann Warren 1947 John Howard 1950 Hasely Crawford 1952 Gianna Rolandi 1952 Mahes Goonatillake 1952 Reginald Veljohnson 1953 Catlin O'Heaney 1953 James Taylor 1953 Kathie Lee Gifford 1953 Nick Leyva 1954 James Cameron 1955 William F. DeVault 1956 Colleen Walker 1956 Dominic Erban 1958 Angela Bassett 1958 Jonathan Prince 1958 Jose Luis 1958 Madonna 1960 Timothy Hutton 1963 Scott Dunlap 1964 Jimmy Arias 1964 Nigel Redman 1965 Xavier Hernandez 1966 Ed Olczyk 1967 Bret Barberie 1967 Matt Vanderbeek 1968 Donovan Leitch, Jr. 1968 Eric Jonassen 1969 Becky Delos Santos 1969 Ben Coates 1969 Carl Henkel 1970 Adrian Hardy 1970 Dena Head 1970 Eric Swann 1970 Lester Smith 1970 Quinton McCracken 1970 Wilco Hellinga 1971 Nigel Williams 1971 Troy Alexander 1971 Willie Jackson 1972 Eddie Goines 1972 Michael Reed 1972 Michael Thornberry 1972 Zach Wiegert 1974 Bryan Chiu 1974 Krizstina Egerszegi 1974 Roger Cedeno 1974 Ryan Longwell 1975 Felicia Zimmermann 1988 Rumer Willis |
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