16th August anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1908
  • United States
  • "Birth of William Maxwell, American novelist and editor ."
• event
  • 1819
  • Great Britain
  • "The Peterloo Massacre when mounted troops killed 11 people at St. Peter's Fields, Manchester during a peaceful meeting demanding Parliamentary Reform."
  • 1858
  • Great Britain
  • The new transatlantic telegraph cable was inaugurated by US President James Buchanan and Queen Victoria.
  • 1930
  • United States
  • "Release of the film Fiddlesticks, the first animated cartoon with both sound and colour. " more
  • 1952
  • Great Britain
  • Lynmouth flood disaster
  • 2004
  • Great Britain
  • Boscastle Floods
• Death
  • 1527
  • Austria
  • "Death of Leonhard Kaiser, parish priest and friend of Martin Luther, burnt at the stake for heresy in Scharding, Bavaria (now Austria)." more
  • 1678
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Andrew Marvell, English Poet" more
  • 1888
  • United States
  • "Death of John Pemberton, the American chemist who invented CocaCola." more
  • 1894
  • Italy
  • "Death of Sante Geronimo Caserio, anarchist, executed by guillotine for the assassination of French president Marie Francois Sadi Carnot." more
  • 1948
  • United States
  • "Death of Babe Ruth, American baseball player ."
  • 1949
  • United States
  • "Death of Margaret Mitchell, American novelist (Gone with the Wind)"
  • 1959
  • France
  • "Death of Wanda Landowska, Polish-born French harpsichordist who revived the popularity of the instrument in the early 20th century"
  • 1977
  • United States
  • Elvis Presley dies