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Day Of The Week: August 16
August 16, 2025 is the 228th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 137 days remaining until the end of 2025. The day of the week is Saturday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Leo is your zodiac sign. Peridot is your modern birthstone. Diamond is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: August 16
- 1780 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden – The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina.
- 1792 –Maximilien Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
- 1793 –French Revolution: a levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
- 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.
- 1859 –The Tuscan National Assembly formally deposes the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
- 1870 –Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-La-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
- 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.
- 1927 –The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
- 1944 –First flight of the Junkers Ju 287.
- 1962 –Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.
Who were born on August 16?
- 1925 –Willie Jones, American baseball player (d. 1983)
- 1934 –Donnie Dunagan, American actor
- 1934 –Ketty Lester, American singer
- 1945 –Kevin Ayers, English singer-songwriter
- 1950 –Marshall Manesh, Iranian-born American actor
- 1963 –Christine Cavanaugh, American voice actress
- 1972 –Emily Robison, American country singer (Dixie Chicks)
- 1972 –George Stroumboulopoulos, Canadian television and radio personality
- 1974 –Krisztina Egerszegi, Hungarian swimmer
- 1988 –Kevin Schmidt, American actor
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