Tuesday, August 16, 2005

Tuesday, August 16

This Day In History

  • 1777   American forces won the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington, Vt.
  • 1812   Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.
  • 1829   The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng Bunker, arrived in Boston to be exhibited to the Western world.
  • 1858   A telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.
  • 1861   President Abraham Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy.
  • 1948   Baseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York City at age 53
  • 1954   Sports Illustrated was first published by Time Inc.
  • 1956   Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
  • 1960   Britain granted independence to Cyprus.
  • 1987   Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to take off from a Detroit airport, killing 156 people; the sole survivor was a 4-year-old girl.
  • 1987   Thousands of people worldwide began a two-day celebration of the ''harmonic convergence,'' which heralded what believers called the start of a new, purer age of humankind.
  • 1988   Vice President George Bush tapped Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be his running mate.
  • 1999   Vladimir Putin won confirmation (by the Russian parliament) as Russia’s fifth prime minister since early 1998. He had been appointed by Boris Yeltsin on Aug 9.
  • 2000   Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Al Gore for president.
  • 2002   Terrorist mastermind Abu Nidal was found shot to death in Baghdad, Iraq.
  • 2003   A car driven by U.S. Rep. Bill Janklow ran a stop sign on a rural road in South Dakota and collided with a motorcyclist, who died in the accident.
  • 2003   Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda, died in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia; he was believed to have been 80.
Happy Birthday To
  • 1894   George Meany (labor leader: president of American Federation of Labor [1952-1979]; merged the AFL with Congress of Industrial Organizations [CIO]; died Jan 10, 1980)
  • 1913   Menachem Begin (6th Prime Minister of Israel: signed peace treaty w/Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat [1979]; died Mar 9, 1992)
  • 1925   Fess Parker (actor: Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett)
  • 1930   Frank Gifford (College/Pro Football Hall of Famer)
  • 1932   Eydie Gorme (Edith Gormezano) (Grammy Award-winning singer)
  • 1935   Julie Newmar (Newmeyer) (actress: Batman)
  • 1938   Robert Culp (actor: I Spy)
  • 1946   Lesley Ann Warren (actress)
  • 1953   Kathie Lee Gifford (Kathryn Lee Epstein) (talk show host: Live! With Regis and Kathie Lee; singer; married to Frank Gifford)
  • 1958   Madonna (Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone) (singer)
  • 1960   Timothy Hutton (actor: Taps)

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