About August 16
August 16, 2023 is the 228th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 137 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Leo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Peridot is the modern birthstone for this month. Diamond is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 178 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On August 16
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: The Americans led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.
- 1780 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden – The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
- 1793 –French Revolution: a levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
- 1812 –War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
- 1841 –U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
- 1863 –The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio Luperón raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had recolonized the country.
- 1869 –Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
- 1870 –Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-La-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
- 1913 –Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary.
- 1920 –Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
- 1920 –The congress of the Communist Party of Bukhara opens. The congress would call for armed revolution.
- 1927 –The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
- 1929 –The 1929 Palestine riots break out in the British Mandate of Palestine between Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
- 1930 –The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
- 1942 –World War II: The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City, California.
- 1944 –First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
- 1945 –Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, is captured by Soviet troops.
- 1946 –Mass riots in Kolkata begin, in which more than 4,000 would be killed in 72 hours.
- 1964 –Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Duong Van Minh with General Nguyen Khanh as President of South Vietnam. A new constitution is established with aid from the U.S. Embassy.
- 1966 –Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
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