16 August

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: Battle o Bennington, portrayal frae 1900

1960: Joseph Kittinger's jump

• 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

James Cameron

Madonna

• 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

1977: Grave o Elvis Presley

• 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)

Halidays

Banner o Cyprus

• Independence Day (Cyprus)
• Battle o Bennington Day (Vermont)