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The
16t o August
is the 228t day o the year (229t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 137 days bidin.
Events
- 1777
– American victory o'er Breetish troops in the
Battle
o Bennington in
Vermont
.
- 1863
– The
Dominican Republic
's war o unthirldom wi
Spain
stairts.
- 1893
– The Klondike
Gowd
Rush in the
Yukon
, Northwastren
Canadae
, stairts.
- 1906
– A
yirdquauk
in
Valparaiso
,
Chile
, kills 3,886 fowk.
- 1930
– The first
Breetish Empire
Gemmes stairt in
Hamilton, Ontario
,
Canadae
. They later become kent as the
Commonweel Gemmes
.
- 1936
– End o the
1936 Simmer Olympics
in
Berlin
.
- 1942
– A German U-boat sinks three
Brazilian
civilian ships aff the Brazilian coast, killin 551 fowk in total.
- 1945
–
Puyi
, the last Emperor o
Cheenae
, is captured bi
Soviet
troops.
- 1945
–
Poland
cedes 46% o its previous territory tae the
Soviet Union
.
- 1960
–
Cyprus
declares unthirldom.
- 1960
–
Joseph Kittinger
parachutes frae a balloon, 31,100 metres (102,800 feet) ower
New Mexico
.
- 1976
– A magnitude 7.9
yirdquauk
hits the isle o
Mindanao
in the
Philippines
.
- 1977
– American sangster, guitarist an actor
Elvis Presley
dees agit 42.
- 1987
– Northwest Airlines Flicht 255 crashes naur
Detroit
, killin 156 fowk.
- 1988
– The Gladbeck hostage creesis in
Wast Germany
stairts.
- 2004
– A flash flood causes a lot o damage in the village o Boscastle,
Cornwall
. Aw fowk caught up in it are rescued safely.
- 2005
– West Caribbean Airlines Flicht 708 crashes in
Venezuela
, killin 152 fowk.
- 2013
– The ferry "St. Thomas Aquinas" sinks aff
Cebu
,
Philippines
.
- 2018
– American soul sangster
Aretha Franklin
dees agit 76.
- 2019
–
Greenland
rejects an offer bi US Preses
Donald Trump
tae buy it frae
Denmark
.
Births
- 1682
–
Louis, Duke o Burgundy, Dauphin o Fraunce
(d.
1712
)
- 1766
–
Carolina Nairne
, Scots sangwriter an sang collector (d.
1845
)
- 1832
–
Wilhelm Wundt
, German medicinar, pheesiologist, philosopher an professor (d.
1920
)
- 1845
–
Gabriel Lippmann
, Luxembourg-French pheesicist (d.
1921
)
- 1864
–
Elsie Inglis
, Scots medicinar an suffragist (d.
1917
)
- 1888
–
T. E. Lawrence
, Breetish airchaeologist, militar afficer an diplomat (d.
1935
)
- 1904
–
Wendell Meredith Stanley
, American biochemist (d.
1971
)
- 1912
–
Robert Forbes Combe
, Scots lawer an chess player (d.
1952
)
- 1913
–
Menachem Begin
, 6t
Prime meenister
o
Israel
(d.
1992
)
- 1920
–
Charles Bukowski
, German-American poet, novelist an short-story writer (d.
1994
)
- 1924
–
Bobby Mitchell
, Scots fitbawer (d.
1993
)
- 1928
–
Adam Robson
, Scots rugby union player (d.
2007
)
- 1929
–
Helmut Rahn
, German fitbawer (d.
2003
)
- 1930
–
Frank Gifford
,
American fitbaa
player (d.
2015
)
- 1939
– Sir
Trevor McDonald
, Trinidadian-Breetish jurnalist an braidcaster
- 1947
–
Carol Moseley Braun
, American politeecian an diplomat
- 1951
–
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
,
Preses
o
Nigerie
(d.
2010
)
- 1954
–
George Galloway
, Scots politeecian
- 1954
–
James Cameron
, Canadian film director, producer an screenwriter
- 1958
–
Madonna
, American sangster-sangwriter, producer, actress, an director
- 1960
–
Stuart Beedie
, Scots fitbawer
- 1962
–
Steve Carell
, American actor
- 1969
–
Allan Preston
, Scots fitbawer
- 1972
–
Frankie Boyle
, Scots comedian
- 1975
–
Taika Waititi
, New Zealand actor, director an screenwriter
- 1980
–
Vanessa Carlton
, American sangster an sangwriter
Daiths
- 1888
–
John Pemberton
, American inventor o
Coca-Cola
(b.
1831
)
- 1893
–
Jean-Martin Charcot
, French neurologist and academic (b.
1825
)
- 1899
–
Robert Bunsen
, German chemist (b.
1811
)
- 1948
–
Babe Ruth
, American basebaw player an coach (b.
1895
)
- 1949
–
Margaret Mitchell
, American writer (b.
1900
)
- 1953
–
Irving Langmuir
, American chemist (b.
1881
)
- 1956
–
Bela Lugosi
, Hungarian-American actor (b.
1882
)
- 1977
–
Elvis Presley
, American sangster, guitarist, an actor (
The Blue Moon Boys
) (b.
1935
)
- 1979
–
John Diefenbaker
,
Prime meenister
o
Canadae
(b.
1895
)
- 2003
–
Idi Amin
, Ugandan dictator (b. c.
1925
)
- 2006
–
Alfredo Stroessner
,
Preses
o
Paraguay
(b.
1912
)
- 2010
–
Bobby Thompson
, Scots-American basebaw player (b.
1923
)
- 2011
–
Frank Munro
, Scots fitbawer (b.
1947
)
- 2015
–
George Merchant
, Scots fitbawer (b.
1926
)
- 2018
–
Aretha Franklin
, American sangster (b.
1942
)
- 2018
–
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
,
Prime meenister
o
Indie
(b.
1924
)
- 2019
–
Peter Fonda
, American actor (b.
1940
)
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