Notable Historical Events on August 16th
August 16th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1384 |
The Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong, hears a case of couple who tore paper money bills while fighting over them (equal to act of destroying stamped government documents - by law necessitated one hundred floggings). However Hongwu Emperor decides to pardon them. |
1513 |
Battle at Eguinegatte/Guinegate: Maximilian & Henry VIII beat France |
1570 |
King Janos Sigismund Zapolyai signs secret treaty with Maximilian II |
1625 |
Earnest Casimir of Nassau-Dietz appointed viceroy of Drenthe |
1691 |
Yorktown, Virginia founded |
1717 |
Prince Eugenius of Savoye occupies Belgrade |
1743 |
Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton) |
1745 |
Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots |
1748 |
"Geldermalsen" sails to East-Indies |
1777 |
Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt |
1780 |
British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC |
1794 |
Hungarian revolutionary Ignác Martinovics arrested in Vienna |
1797 |
Comet C/1797 P1 (Bouvard-Herschel) approaches 0.0879 AUs of Earth |
1812 |
General Hull surrenders Detroit & Michigan territory to British forces |
1812 |
British forces under the command of Major General Sir Isaac Brock capture Fort Detroit with the help of Indigenous warriors led by Tecumseh |
1819 |
Peterloo Massacre, Manchester, England: cavalry charges demonstrators.15 people killed and 400—700 injured |
1829 |
Siamese twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited |
1834 |
Charles Darwin climbs Mt Campana in Chile |
1858 |
Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan |
1861 |
Pres Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy |
1861 |
Skirmishes at Fredericktown/Kirkville, Missouri |
1863 |
Chickamauga campaign GA |
1864 |
Federal assault on 4th day of battle at Deep Bottom Run, Virginia |
1864 |
Palace for People's industry official opens in Amsterdam |
1865 |
Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation. |
1869 |
Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguay battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance. |
1870 |
Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion |
1876 |
Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth |
1882 |
British under General Wolseley land in Alexandria |
1890 |
Alexander Clark, journalist/lawyer, named minister to Liberia |
1894 |
Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity & return to their old Indian faith |
1896 |
Gold first discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Alaska by George Carmack |
1898 |
Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster |
1903 |
Tigers play a home game in Toledo Ohio, Yanks win 12-8 |
1904 |
NYC begins building Grand Central Station |
1905 |
Mbunga-rebellion occupy German post Ifakara East-Africa |
1906 |
-17] 8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000 |
1907 |
Mulay Hafid is proclaimed the Sultan of Morocco by supporters leading to civil war; Mulay is supported by Germany while France supports the existing Sultan |
1908 |
The Committee of Union and Progress, 'The Young Turks', announces a program for reforms and respect for the rights of all within the Ottoman Empire, regardless of race or religion |
1913 |
Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students. |
1914 |
German army occupies last fort at Liege, Belgian general Leman caught |
1914 |
Zapata & Pancho Villa over run Mexico |
1914 |
World War I: Battle of Cer begins. |
1915 |
KC's Alex Main no-hits Buffalo (Federal League), 5-0 |
1918 |
US troops overthrows Archangelsk |
1920 |
Ray Chapman, of Indians is hit in head by Yanks' Carl Mays pitch; he dies next day, only major league fatality |
1922 |
AT&T radio station WBAY becomes WEAF (NYC) |
1924 |
38th US Womens Tennis: Helen Wills Moody beats Molla Mallory (6-1 6-3) |
1924 |
Conference about German recovery payments opens in London |
1924 |
Dutch-Turkish peace treaty signed |
1927 |
1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth) |
1930 |
The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks. |
1934 |
US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915) |
1934 |
US explorer William Beebe descends 3,028' (923 m) in Bathysphere |
1936 |
11th Olympic games closes in Berlin |
1940 |
45 German aircrafts shot down over England |
1941 |
HMS Mercury, Royal Navy Signals School and Combined Signals School opens at Leydene, near Petersfield, Hampshire, England. |
1942 |
British Premier Winston Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow |
1943 |
1st Long Tom bombs on Italian mainland (from Sicily) |
1943 |
Bulgarian Tsar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler |
1944 |
2nd Canadian Division occupies Falaise, Normandy |
1944 |
Dutch begin diplomatic contact with Vatican in London |
1944 |
US 15th Army corp reaches Eure, surrounds Dreux |
1944 |
First flight of the Junkers Ju 287. |
1945 |
Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, was captured by Soviet troops. |
1946 |
Direct Action Day - riots in Calcutta between Moslem and Hindus kill over 4,000 over demand for Pakistan separate state |
1947 |
Ralph Kiner becomes 1st Pirate to hit 3 consecutive HRs |
1948 |
Arabs blow up Latrun pumping station in Jerusalem |
1948 |
Israeli pound becomes legal tender |
1950 |
West Indies complete historic 3-1 series win against England |
1953 |
KTAL TV channel 6 in Shreveport-Texarkana, LA (NBC) begins |
1953 |
Shah of Persia & princess Soraya flee to Baghdad & Rome |
1954 |
"Sports Illustrated" magazine begins publishing |
1954 |
200 pilgrims drown in Farahzad Iran rain storm flood |
1955 |
Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor |
1956 |
Adlai E Stevenson nominated as US Democratic presidential candidate |
1956 |
Indians' Rocky Colavito hits his 1st grand slam, Cleveland 5, Tigers 4 |
1959 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Seattle Golf Open |
1959 |
USSR introduces installment buying |
1960 |
Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus |
1960 |
Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700') |
1960 |
Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms |
1961 |
250,000 West Berliners demonstrate against East Berlin |
1961 |
Martin L King protests for black voting right in Miami |
1962 |
Ringo Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatles' drummer |
1963 |
Independence is restored to Dominican Republic |
1964 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational |
1964 |
St Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader |
1965 |
AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins) |
1967 |
Cin Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured & leaves |
1967 |
WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1969 |
WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, GA begins broadcasting |
1969 |
Second day of the Woodstock rock festival in NY |
1970 |
52nd PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots 279 at Southern Hills OK |
1970 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cincinnati Golf Open |
1971 |
Over 8,000 workers go on strike in Derry, Northern Ireland, in protest at the introduction of Internment (allowing suspected terrorists to be indefinitely detained without trial) |
1972 |
54th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich |
1972 |
Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot at |
1972 |
Philip Potter appointed sect-gen of World council of Churches |
1972 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1974 |
Ramones concert debut (NY's CBGBs) |
1975 |
"Rodgers & Hart" closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 108 perfs |
1975 |
Peter Gabriel quits Genesis |
1976 |
58th PGA Championship: Dave Stockton shoots a 281 at Congressional MD |
1976 |
St Louis Cards beat San Diego Chargers 20-10 in Tokyo (NFL expo) |
1977 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1977 |
Yanks blow 9-4 lead in 9th but beat Chicago 11-10 in bottom of 9th |
1980 |
Bill Ward quits Black Sabbath |
1980 |
Cozy Powell quits Rainbow |
1980 |
Jools Holland quits Squeeze |
1981 |
Highest score in World Cup soccer match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0) |
1981 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Mary Kay Golf Classic |
1981 |
Mary Terstegge Meagher swims world record 100m butterfly (57.93) |
1984 |
Sunken liner Andrea Doria's safe opened |
1984 |
LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges |
1984 |
Largest harness racing purse ($2,161,000-Nihilator wins $1,080,500) |
1984 |
NASA launches Ampte |
1986 |
Sudan rebels shoot a Fokker's F-27 down, 57 killed |
1986 |
"Papa Don't Preach" goes #1 for 2 weeks |
1986 |
Madonna's "True Blue" album goes #1 for 5 weeks & her single |
1987 |
Astrological Harmonic Convergence-Dawn of New Age |
1987 |
NY Mets beat Chicago Cubs, 23-9 |
1987 |
Northwest Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives) |
1987 |
Val Skinner wins LPGA MasterCard International Golf Pro-Am |
1988 |
Butch Reynolds runs world record 400 m (43.29) |
1988 |
IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence |
1988 |
Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers |
1989 |
Roger Kingdom of USA sets 110m hurdle record (12.92) in Zurich |
1989 |
A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market. |
1990 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
1990 |
Iraq orders 4000 Britons & 2500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq |
1990 |
South African President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold emergency talks in Pretoria about increasing violence in Soweto |
1991 |
Belgium census is 10,000,963 inhabitants |
1991 |
President Bush declares recession is near an end |
1992 |
20th du Maurier Golf Classic: Sherri Steinhaur |
1992 |
74th PGA Championship: Nick Price shoots a 278 at Bellerive St Louis |
1992 |
Moses Kiptanui runs world record 3k (7:28.96) |
1993 |
The Debian distribution was first announced by Ian Murdock, then a student at Purdue University. Murdock initially called his system the "Debian Linux Release" |
1993 |
South Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay |
1994 |
Chandrika Kumaratungo's party wins Sri Lanka elections |
1994 |
Shauna Gambill, 17, of California, crowned 12th Miss Teen USA |
1997 |
For only 2nd time Stanley Cup leaves North America (heads to Russia) |
1997 |
The South African soccer team, Bafana Bafana wins against the national team of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at First National Bank stadium, Johannesburg, South Africa |
1998 |
80th PGA Championship: Vijay Singh shoots a 271 at Sahalee Country Club |
1998 |
Weetabix Women's British Golf Open |
2002 |
Africa Women's Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg |
2003 |
U.S. Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress. |
2005 |
West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes near Machiques, Venezuela, killing all 160 aboard. |
2008 |
Usain Bolt sets a new 100 metres dash world record of 9.69 seconds at the Beijing 2008 summer olympics. |
2009 |
91st PGA Championship: Yang Yong-eun shoots a 280 at Hazeltine National Golf Club |
2011 |
Beginning of World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid |
2012 |
Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, is granted political asylum by Ecuador |
2012 |
113 people are killed and over 200 wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq |
2012 |
South African police open fire on striking mine workers and kill at least 34 people |
2013 |
61 people are killed after the ferry MV Thomas Aquinas sinks in the Philippines |
2016 |
Brooklyn Man Charged With Killing Imam and Assistant Near Mosque |
2016 |
Bombing of Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Yemen Kills at Least 15 |
2016 |
Pennsylvania attorney general convicted of perjury, other charges |
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