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Today in History ~ August 16
Events1290 - Charles of Valois weds Margaret of Anjou
1691 - Yorktown Va founded
1745 - Skirmish at Laggan: Glengarry beats Royal Scots
1777 - Americans defeat British in Battle of Bennington, Vt
1780 - British decisively defeat Americans in Battle of Camden, SC
1812 - During the War of 1812, American General William Hull surrendered Fort Detroit without resistance to British General Isaac Brock. [H]
1819 - The "Peterloo Massacre" A demonstration of about 50,000 people in Manchester, England, was brutally ended when cavalry charged the unarmed protesters with sabers. The demonstrators were protesting against the rise in unemployment and the high cost of living in England. Several protesters were killed and hundreds injured.
1829 - The original "Siamese twins," Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston to be exhibited to the Western world.
1841 - Former Whig ally President John Tyler vetoed a bill that would have established the Second Bank of the United States. The move sparked a riot outside the White House, as incensed--and drunk--members of the Whig party bombarded the White House with stones, fired their guns in the air and burned Tyler in effigy.
1846 - Gioacchino Rossini marries Olympe Pelissier in Paris, stops composing operas
1858 - Across the Atlantic Ocean, U.S. President James Buchanan and Queen Victoria exchanged introductory and complimentary messages to inaugurate the first transatlantic telegraph line.
1861 - President Lincoln prohibited the Union states from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy.
1863 - Chickamauga campaign GA
1863 - Emancipation Proclamation signed
1864 - Battle of Front Royal VA (Guard Hill)
1876 - Opera "Siegfried" premieres in Bayreuth
1894 - Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity & return to their old Indian faith
1896 - Gold discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Ala [H]
1898 - Edwin Prescott patents roller coaster
1904 - NYC begins building Grand Central Station
1914 - Zapata & Pancho Villa over run Mexico
1918 - US troops overthrow Archangel
1924 - Conference about German recovery payments opens in London
1928 - Carl Panzram, one of the 20th century's most evil criminals, is arrested in Washington, D.C.
1934 - US ends occupation of Haiti (been there since 1915)
1936 - 11th Olympic games closes in Berlin
1940 - 45 German aircrafts shot down over England
1943 - Bulgarian czar Boris III visits Adolf Hitler
1944 - Chartres freed
1945 - Senior U.S. POW, Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, is released [H].
1946 - Great Calcutta blood bath - Moslem/Hindu riot (3-4,000 die)
1953 - Shah of Persia & princess Soraya flee to Baghdad & Rome
1954 - "Sports Illustrated" magazine begins publishing
1955 - Fiat Motors orders 1st private atomic reactor
1956 - Adlai E Stevenson nominated as Democratic presidential candidate
1960 - Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus
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 Beatle drummer
1963 - Independence is restored to Dominican Republic
1964 - General Nguyen Khanh, elected president by the Military Council, ousts Duong Van Minh as South Vietnamese chief of state and installs a new constitution, which the U.S. Embassy had helped to draft.
1965 - Watts Riots end with the help of 20,000 National Guardsmen; the riots left 34 dead, 857 injured, over 2,200 arrested, and property valued at $200 million destroyed. The riots started when police on August 11th brutally beat a black motorist suspected of drunken driving in Watts area of LA
1967 - President Johnson's broad interpretation of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is attacked in the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee by the Chairman, Senator William Fulbright of Arkansas, who feels that Johnson has no mandate to conduct the war on the present scale.
1969 - Woodstock rock festival begins in NY
1972 - One year after he survived an abortive coup against his rule, King Hassan II of Morocco nearly perished when the airliner carrying him back to Rabat was fired on by his own air force.
1977 - Elvis Presley died at the age of forty-two. The death of the king of rock and roll brought legions of mourning fans to Graceland, his home in Memphis, Tennessee. Elvis recorded 25 golden records, 9 more than the Beatles [H]
1984 - LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges
1985 - Saying Goodbye to General Lee The last episode of the television show Dukes of Hazard aired
1987 - Astrological Harmonic Convergence-Dawn of New Age Thousands of people worldwide met at certain "sacred sites" to create a single cosmic consciousness and meditate about peace. The date of the event was calculated from ancient prophesies and by using the Mayan and Aztec calendars.
1987 - Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to take off from Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
1988 - IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
1988 - Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers
1991 - Pope John Paul II began the first-ever papal visit to Hungary.
1991 - In Moscow, Alexander Yakovlev, a top adviser to Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, resigned from the Communist Party, warning that hard-liners were plotting "a party and state coup."
1996 - A rare female western lowland gorilla named Binti-jua picked up the 3 year old boy who had fallen 15 feet into the pit, cradled him in her arms and carried him to the cage door at the Brookfield Zoo near Chicago, Il.
Birthdays Today
1397 - Albrecht II von Habsburg, king of Bohemia/Hungary/Germany
1862 - Amos Alonzo Stagg (Basketball and Football Hall of Famer: Yale: 1st all-American team, University of Chicago: coach: developed wing back principle, quick kick, onside kick, double flankers, pass-run option play, man in motion; College of the Pacific: coach, Susquehanna co-coach at age of 89, inventor (tackling dummy)
1868 - Bernard McFadden (publisher:Physical Culture Magazine, True Story Magazine, True Romances, True Detective Mysteries Magazine)
1868 - Charles Sanford Skilton, composer
1884 - Hugo Gernsback, sci-fi writer/publisher (1960 Hugo)(responsible for science fiction becoming an independent literary form.)
1887 - Nadia Boulanger, conductor (1st woman to conduct Boston Symphony)
1892 - Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant", known for it's fine drawing and historical detail.
1894 - George Meany, first president of the AFL-CIO, was born in New York City.
1897 - Robert Ringling, circus master
1910 - Mae Clarke (actress: The Public Enemy, Flying Tigers, Frankenstein)
1913 - Menachem Begin (Israeli Prime Minister: signed peace treaty w/Egypt's President Anwar Sadat [1979])
1922 - Gene Woodlin (baseball)
1927 - Fess Parker (actor: Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Westward, Ho the Wagons!; singer: The Ballad of Davy Crockett, Wringle Wrangle)
1928 - Ann Blyth (actress: The Helen Morgan Story, Rose Marie, Kismet, The Student Prince, The Great Caruso)
1928 - George King (basketball)
1929 - Lois Nettleton (actress: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, You Can't Take It with You, In the Heat of the Night, Centennial, Accidental Family)
1930 - Frank Gifford (College/Pro Football Hall of Famer: USC, New York Giants; broadcaster: Monday Night Football; husband of Kathie Lee Gifford)
1930 - Robert Culp (actor: I Spy, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice, The Pelican Brief, The Greatest American Hero)
1930 - Ted Hughes, England, poet laureate (1984- )
1930 - Tony Trabert (tennis champion: French Open [1954,55], Wimbledon [1955], U.S. Open [1953, 55])
1931 - Eydie Gorme (Grammy Award-winning singer: Blame It on The Bossa Nova [1967]; Too Close for Comfort, Love Me Forever, I'll Take Romance, Tea for Two, You Need Hands, I Want to Stay Here [w/Steve Lawrence]; married since 1957 to Steve Lawrence)
1935 - Julie Newmar (Newmeyer) (actress: Batman, My Living Doll, Deep Space, Li'L Abner, MacKenna's Gold, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
1936 - Anita Gillette (Luebben) (actress: Quincy, Moonstruck, Marathon, Boys on the Side)
1942 - Barbara George (singer: I Know)
1943 - Woody Peoples (football: Philadelphia Eagles guard: Super Bowl XV)
1945 - Suzanne Farrell (Ficker) (ballerina)
1946 - Lesley Ann Warren (actress: Cinderella, Victor/Victoria, Clue, Color of Night, Portrait of a Showgirl, Portrait of a Stripper)
1948 - Mike Jorgenson (baseball)
1952 - Al Holland (baseball)
1953 - James J.T. Taylor (singer: group: Kool and The Gang: Celebration)
1953 - Kathie Lee (Epstein) Gifford (talk show host w/Regis Philbin: Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee; singer; wife of Frank Gifford)
1958 - Madonna (Ciccone) (singer: Material Girl, Like a Virgin; actress: Dick Tracy, Desperately Seeking Susan, Shanghai Surprise, A League of Their Own)
1960 - Timothy Hutton (actor: Taps, Made in Heaven, Ordinary People, The Dark Half, The Temp, Q&A)
1961 - Christian Okoye (football: Kansas City Chiefs running back: UP's AFL offensive player of the year [1989])
Famous deaths
1419 - Wenceslas, drunken RC German king, dies at 58
1675 - Bogdan Chmilnicki, cosack leader/murderer of 300,000 Jews, dies
1678 - Andrew Marvell, English poet (Definition of Love), ODs at 57
1799 - Vincenzo Manfredini, composer, dies at 61
1854 - Duncan Phyfe, furniture maker, dies
1945 - Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots, dies
1948 - Babe Ruth, Baseball legend (NY Yankees), dies in NY at 53
1949 - Margaret Mitchell, US writer (Gone With the Wind), dies at 48
1956 - Bela Lugosi, actor (Dracula), dies of heart attack at 73
1959 - William "Bull" F Halsey, US vice-admiral (WW II Pacific), dies
1977 - Elvis Presley, rocker, dies of heart ailment/drugs at Graceland at 42; [H]
1991 - Shamu the Whale, dies of respiratory failure at 16
1993 - Stewart Granger, actor (Scaramouche), dies of cancer at 80
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