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963 – Nikephoros II Phokas is crowned emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1328: The House of Gonzaga seized power in the Duchy of Mantua, and would rule until 1708
1513: Battle of Guinegate (Battle of the Spurs): King Henry VIII of England and his Imperial allies defeated French Forces who were then forced to retreat.
1777: The Americans led by General John Stark routed British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at the Battle of Bennington in Walloomsac, New York.
1780: American General Horatio Gates suffered a humiliating defeat at Camden, South Carolina.
1792: Maximilien de Robespierre presented the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
1793: During the French Revolution, a levée en masse was decreed by the National Convention.
1812: During the War of 1812, American General William Hull surrendered Fort Detroit and his army to the British without a fight.
1819 – Peterloo Massacre: Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.
1841: President John Tyler vetoed a second attempt by Congress to re-establish the Bank of the United States. In response, angry supporters of the bank gathered outside the White House and burned an effigy of Tyler.
1858: President James Buchanan inaugurated the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria. However, a weak signal forced a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
1859: The Tuscan National Assembly formally deposed the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
1861 – President Abraham Lincoln prohibits Union states from trading with Confederacy.
1863 – The Dominican Restoration War begins when Gregorio Luperón raises the Dominican flag in Santo Domingo after Spain had recolonized the country.
1864: Confederate General John Chambliss was killed during a cavalry charge at Deep Bottom, Virginia, one of the sieges of Petersburg.
1869 – Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
1891 – The Basilica of San Sebastian in Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
1900 – The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
1904 – Construction of Grand Central Station begins in New York City.
1906: An estimated 8.2 MW earthquake hit Valparaíso, Chile, killing 3,886 people.
1913 – Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tohoku University) becomes the first university in Japan to admit female students.
1913 – Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Queen Mary.
1917: In a renewed thrust of the Allied offensive launched at the end of July in the Flanders region of Belgium—known as the Third Battle of Ypres, or simply as Passchendaele, for the village that saw the heaviest fighting—British troops captured the village of Langemarck from the Germans.
1918 – The Battle of Lake Baikal was fought between the Czechoslovak legion and the Red Army.
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.
1920 – Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Radzymin concludes; the Soviet Red Army is forced to turn away from Warsaw.
1923 – The United Kingdom gives the name "Ross Dependency" to part of its claimed Antarctic territory and makes the Governor General of the Dominion of New Zealand its administrator.
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 broke out in Mandatory Palestine between Palestinian Arabs and Jews and continued until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs were killed.
1930 – The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
1930 – The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.
1940: The Contra Costa Canal in the Central Valley Project in California made its first delivery of water.
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 – An assassination attempt is made on Japan's prime minister, Kantarō Suzuki.
1945: Puyi, the last Chinese emperor and ruler of Manchukuo, was captured by Soviet troops.
1945: Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, (captured by the Japanese on the island of Corregidor, in the Philippines), was freed by Russian forces from a POW camp in Manchuria, China.
1945 – The National Representatives' Congress, the precursor of the current National Assembly of Vietnam, convenes in Sơn Dương.
1946 – Mass riots in Kolkata begin, in which more than 4,000 would be killed in 72 hours.
1946 – The All Hyderabad Trade Union Congress is founded in Secunderabad.
1954: The first issue of Sports Illustrated was published.
1960: Cyprus gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
1962: The Fryingpan-Arkansas Project in Colorado and the Mann Creek Project in Idaho were both approved.
1962: Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty were exchanged to make the transfer official.
1964: General Nguyen Khanh, elected president by the Military Council, ousted Duong Van Minh as South Vietnamese chief of state and installs a new constitution, which the U.S. Embassy had helped to draft.
1966: The House Un-American Activities Committee investigated Americans who had given aid to the Viet Cong with a view toward introducing legislation to make such activities illegal. Demonstrators disrupted the hearings and before it was over, more than 50 people were arrested for disorderly conduct. The Chairman of the subcommittee, Representative J. R. Pool (D-Texas) announced that the hearings had revealed that key leadership of groups supporting the Viet Cong were comprised of revolutionary, hard-core Communists.
1967: President Johnson's broad interpretation of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was attacked in the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee by the Chairman, Senator William Fulbright of Arkansas, who felt that Johnson had no mandate to conduct the war on the present scale.
1972: U.S. fighter-bombers flew 370 air strikes against North Vietnam, the highest daily total of the year; additionally, there were eight B-52 strikes in the North. Meanwhile, U.S. warplanes flew 321 missions (including 27 B-52 strikes) in South Vietnam, mostly in Quang Tri province. Despite this heavy air activity, hopes for an agreement to end the war rose as Henry Kissinger left Paris to confer with President Thieu and his advisers.
1972 – In an unsuccessful coup d'état attempt, the Royal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traveling back to Rabat.
1977: Elvis Presley died at his Graceland estate in Memphis, Tennessee, at age 42.
1987: Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashed after take off in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground. A four-year-old girl was the sole survivor of the accident, which was caused by pilot error.
1989 – A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.
2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423 m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.
2012 – South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute near Rustenburg.
2013 – The ferry St. Thomas Aquinas collides with a cargo ship and sinks at Cebu, Philippines, killing 61 people and 59 others missing.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Hyacinth, Confessor. Double.
Commemoration of the Octave of the Assumption.
Commemoration of the Octave of St. Lawrence.
Commemoration of the Octave of the Assumption.
Commemoration of the Octave of St. Lawrence.
Contemporary Western
Roch
Simplician
Stephen I of Hungary
Simplician
Stephen I of Hungary
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
August 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Afterfeast of the Dormition
Translation of the "Image not made by hands" (Acheiropoieta)
of Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople (944)
Martyr Diomedes the Physician, of Tarsus in Cilicia (298)
Martyr Alcibiades, by fire
33 Martyrs of Palestine, by the sword
Venerable Chaeremon of Egypt (4th century)
Saint Anthony the Stylite, of Martqopi, Georgia (6th century)
Saint Makarios the Archbishop.
Saint Ambrose, a centurion put to death under Diocletian,
in Ferentino, central Italy (c. 303)
Saint Titus, a Deacon martyred during the sack of Rome by the Goths,
while distributing alms to the half-starved population (c. 410)
Saint Armagillus (Armel), founder of Saint-Armel-des-Boscheaux
and Plou-Ermel (Ploermel) in Brittany (c. 550)
Saint Eleutherius of Auxerre, Bishop of Auxerre from 532-561,
who assisted at four Councils of Orléans between 533 and 549 (561)
Saint Simplician, a friend and advisor of St Ambrose,
whom he succeeded as Bishop of Milan (400)
Saint Stephen of Hungary, King of Hungary (1038)
Saint Joachim, monk, of Osogovo and Sarandapor, Bulgarian monk (1105)
Saint Eustathius II, archbishop of Serbia (1309)
Venerable Nilus of Ereikoussa, nephew of Emperor Theodore Laskaris (c. 1335)
Saint Romanus the Sinaite, of Djunisa, Serbia (14th century)
Monk-martyr Christopher of Guria, Georgia, at Damascus (15th century)
Venerable New Monk-Martyr Nicodemus of Meteora (1551)
Venerable Daniel of Meteora
Venerable Gerasimus of Kefalonia, the New Ascetic of Cephalonia (1579)
Saint Raphael of Banat in Serbia (c. 1590)
Venerable Timothy of Euripos (Timothy of Chalcedon), Archbishop,
founder of the Pendeli Monastery (1590)
New Martyr Stamatius of Demetrias, near Volos, at Constantinople (1680)
New Great-martyr Apostolos of the town of St. Laurence,
martyred at Constantinople (1686)
New Martyrs King Constantin Brâncoveanu of Wallachia, and his four sons
Constantine, Stephen, Radu, and Matthew, and his counsellor Ioannicius (1714)
Saint Joseph of Varatec Monastery (Romania) (1828)
New Hieromartyr Stephen, Priest (1918)
New Hieromartyrs priest Vladimir, and his brother Boris (1931)
New Hieromartyr Alexander Sokolov, Priest, Virgin Martyr Anna Yezhov,
and Martyr Jacob Gortinsky (1937)
Translation of the relics (1798) of Martyrs Seraphim, Dorotheus,
Jacob (James), Demetrius, Basil, and Sarantis, of Megara
Repose of Matrona (Popova), in monasticism Maria (1851),
disciple of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk.
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Saint Theodore
("Feodorovskaya") of Kostroma (1239)
Icon of the Theotokos of Port Arthur (1904)
Afterfeast of the Dormition
Translation of the "Image not made by hands" (Acheiropoieta)
of Jesus Christ from Edessa to Constantinople (944)
Martyr Diomedes the Physician, of Tarsus in Cilicia (298)
Martyr Alcibiades, by fire
33 Martyrs of Palestine, by the sword
Venerable Chaeremon of Egypt (4th century)
Saint Anthony the Stylite, of Martqopi, Georgia (6th century)
Saint Makarios the Archbishop.
Saint Ambrose, a centurion put to death under Diocletian,
in Ferentino, central Italy (c. 303)
Saint Titus, a Deacon martyred during the sack of Rome by the Goths,
while distributing alms to the half-starved population (c. 410)
Saint Armagillus (Armel), founder of Saint-Armel-des-Boscheaux
and Plou-Ermel (Ploermel) in Brittany (c. 550)
Saint Eleutherius of Auxerre, Bishop of Auxerre from 532-561,
who assisted at four Councils of Orléans between 533 and 549 (561)
Saint Simplician, a friend and advisor of St Ambrose,
whom he succeeded as Bishop of Milan (400)
Saint Stephen of Hungary, King of Hungary (1038)
Saint Joachim, monk, of Osogovo and Sarandapor, Bulgarian monk (1105)
Saint Eustathius II, archbishop of Serbia (1309)
Venerable Nilus of Ereikoussa, nephew of Emperor Theodore Laskaris (c. 1335)
Saint Romanus the Sinaite, of Djunisa, Serbia (14th century)
Monk-martyr Christopher of Guria, Georgia, at Damascus (15th century)
Venerable New Monk-Martyr Nicodemus of Meteora (1551)
Venerable Daniel of Meteora
Venerable Gerasimus of Kefalonia, the New Ascetic of Cephalonia (1579)
Saint Raphael of Banat in Serbia (c. 1590)
Venerable Timothy of Euripos (Timothy of Chalcedon), Archbishop,
founder of the Pendeli Monastery (1590)
New Martyr Stamatius of Demetrias, near Volos, at Constantinople (1680)
New Great-martyr Apostolos of the town of St. Laurence,
martyred at Constantinople (1686)
New Martyrs King Constantin Brâncoveanu of Wallachia, and his four sons
Constantine, Stephen, Radu, and Matthew, and his counsellor Ioannicius (1714)
Saint Joseph of Varatec Monastery (Romania) (1828)
New Hieromartyr Stephen, Priest (1918)
New Hieromartyrs priest Vladimir, and his brother Boris (1931)
New Hieromartyr Alexander Sokolov, Priest, Virgin Martyr Anna Yezhov,
and Martyr Jacob Gortinsky (1937)
Translation of the relics (1798) of Martyrs Seraphim, Dorotheus,
Jacob (James), Demetrius, Basil, and Sarantis, of Megara
Repose of Matrona (Popova), in monasticism Maria (1851),
disciple of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk.
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of Saint Theodore
("Feodorovskaya") of Kostroma (1239)
Icon of the Theotokos of Port Arthur (1904)
Coptic Orthodox
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