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 | Thursday, August 16th The 228th day of 2007. There are 137 days left in the year. |
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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 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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| Angela Bassett turns 49 years old today. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 AP Photo/Earl Gibson III Actress Angela Bassett turns 49 years old today.
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| 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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