On this Day, August 16th

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	Thursday, August 16th The 228th day of 2007. There are 137 days left in the year. Go to a previous date.

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Today's Highlights in History
See a larger version of this front page.		On Aug. 16, 1977, singer Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tenn., at age 42. (Go to article.) On Aug. 16, 1913, Menachem Begin, the prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983, was born. Following his death on March 9, 1992, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)
		On August 16, 1879, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about hazing. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)

On this date in:
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	Chang and Eng, a pair of conjoined twins from Siam, arrived in Boston to be exhibited to the Western world. (The term Siamese twins became a common phrase for conjoined twins.)
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.
1888	T.E. Lawrence, the British soldier who gained fame as "Lawrence of Arabia," was born in Tremadoc, Wales.
1913	Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was born in Brest-Litovsk in present-day Belarus.
1948	Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth died 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 believers called the start of a new, purer age of humankind.
1988	Vice President George H.W. Bush tapped Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be his running mate on the Republican ticket.
2000	Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Vice President 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. (Janklow was later convicted of manslaughter and resigned from Congress.)
2003	Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda, died in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia.
2006	John Mark Karr was arrested in Thailand as a suspect in the slaying of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. (Karr's confession that he had killed JonBenet was later discredited.)

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Current Birthdays

Angela Bassett turns 49 years old today.

AP Photo/Earl Gibson III Actress Angela Bassett turns 49 years old today.

84 Shimon Peres Israeli politician 83 Fess Parker Actor 79 Ann Blyth Actress 77 Robert Culp Actor 77 Frank Gifford Football Hall of Famer 77 Tony Trabert Tennis Hall of Famer 76 Eydie Gorme Singer 74 Julie Newmar Actress 73 John Standing Actor 71 Gary Clarke Actor 71 Anita Gillette Actress 68 Billy Joe Shaver Country singer 68 Carole Shelley Actress 67 Bruce Beresford Director 65 Robert Lester R&B singer (The Chi-Lites) 62 Bob Balaban Actor 62 Suzanne Farrell Ballerina 61 Lesley Ann Warren Actress 60 Carol Moseley-Braun Former U.S. senator, D-Ill. 57 Joey Spampinato Rock singer, musician (NRBQ) 55 Reginald VelJohnson Actor 54 Kathie Lee Gifford TV personality 54 J.T. Taylor R&B singer 53 Joshua Bolten White House chief of staff 53 James Cameron Director ("Titanic") 52 Jeff Perry Actor 50 Tim Farriss Rock musician (INXS) 49 Madonna Singer 48 Laura Innes Actress ("ER") 47 Timothy Hutton Actor 44 Steve Carell Actor ("The Office") 39 Donovan Leitch Actor 35 Emily Robison Country singer, musician (The Dixie Chicks) 32 George Stults Actor ("7th Heaven") 27 Vanessa Carlton Singer 21 Shawn Pyfrom Actor ("Desperate Housewives")

Historic Birthdays
Menachem Begin
8/16/1913 - 3/9/1992 Israeli prime minister (1977-83) (Go to obit.)
86	Sarah Porter 8/16/1813 - 2/17/1900 American educator
72	St. John Bosco 8/16/1815 - 1/31/1888 Italian priest; founded the Salesian Order
46	T. E. Lawrence 8/16/1888 - 5/19/1935 English archaeologist, military strategist and author
27	Jules Laforgue 8/16/1860 - 8/20/1887 French Symbolist poet
102	Amos Alonzo Stagg 8/16/1862 - 3/17/1965 American collegiate football coach
85	George Meany 8/16/1894 - 1/10/1980 American labor leader; president of the AFL-CIO (1955-79)
32	Wallace Henry Thurman 8/16/1902 - 12/22/1934 African-American editor, critic, novelist and playwright
66	Wendell Stanley 8/16/1904 - 6/15/1971 American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1946)
66	Ernst Schumacher 8/16/1911 - 9/4/1977 English economist
61	Stuart A. Roosa 8/16/1933 - 12/12/1994 American astronaut

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