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336 Incidents Listed
Death
Aug 16, 1886
Sri Ramakrishna
Bengali saint, guru of Swami Vivekananda (b. 1836)
Birth
Aug 16, 1884
Hugo Gernsback
Luxembourg-born editor and publisher (d. 1967)
Birth
Aug 16, 1882
Christian Mortensen
Danish-born American supercentenarian (d. 1998)
Birth
Aug 16, 1876
Ivan Bilibin
Russian illustrator (d. 1942)
Birth
Aug 16, 1876
Julian Ashby Burruss
American academic (d. 1947)
Other Event
Aug 16, 1870
Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-La-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
Other Event
Aug 16, 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.
Mishap
Aug 16, 1868
Arica, Peru (now Chile) is devastated by a tsunami that follows a magnitude 8.5 earthquake in the Peru-Chile Trench off the coast. The earthquake and tsunami kill an estimated 25,000 people in Arica and perhaps 70,000 people in all.
Birth
Aug 16, 1868
Bernarr McFadden
American publisher (d. 1955)
General Commemoration
Aug 16, 1865
Restoration Day (Dominican Republic)
Birth
Aug 16, 1862
Amos Alonzo Stagg
American coach (d. 1965)
Birth
Aug 16, 1860
Jules Laforgue
French poet (d. 1887)
Birth
Aug 16, 1860
Martin Hawke, 7th Baron Hawke
England cricketer (d. 1938)
Other Event
Aug 16, 1859
The Tuscan National Assembly formally deposes the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
Other Event
Aug 16, 1858
U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks
Birth
Aug 16, 1858
Arthur Achleitner
German writer (d. 1927)
Birth
Aug 16, 1856
Aparicio Saravia
Uruguayan politician and military leader (d. 1904)
Death
Aug 16, 1855
Henry Colburn
British publisher
Birth
Aug 16, 1845
Gabriel Lippmann
French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1921)
Birth
Aug 16, 1842
Jakob Rosanes
German mathematician (d. 1922)
Other Event
Aug 16, 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.
Death
Aug 16, 1836
Marc-Antoine Parseval
French mathematician (b. 1755)
Birth
Aug 16, 1832
Wilhelm Wundt
German psychologist (d. 1920)
Birth
Aug 16, 1831
John Jones Ross
Quebec politician (d. 1901)
Birth
Aug 16, 1820
Andrew Rainsford Wetmore
Canadian politician (d. 1892)
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