August 16<\/p>\n
1777 \u2013 U.S. forces led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at Bennington near Walloomsac, New York.<\/p>\n
1780 \u2013 British forces under the command of General Cornwallis rout U.S. troops led by General Horatio Gates near Camden, South Carolina<\/p>\n
1792 \u2013 During the French Revolution, a month after the Storming of the Bastille, Maximilien de Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, demanding the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.<\/p>\n
1793 \u2013During the French Revolution, a lev\u00e9e en masse –<\/em>a general conscription for military service – is decreed by the National Convention.<\/p>\n 1812 \u2013 During the War of 1812, General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit to the British Army without a fight.<\/p>\n 1841 \u2013 President Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the reestablishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Whig Party members riot outside the White House in protest.<\/p>\n 1858 \u2013 President Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria<\/p>\n 1888 \u2013 Thomas Edward Lawrence more well known as ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ is born in Snowdon Lodge,\u00a0 Tremadog, Wales.<\/p>\n 1896 \u2013 ‘Skookum’ Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada<\/p>\n 1916 \u2013 The Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed.<\/p>\n 1927 \u2013 The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which 2 of the 8 starting planes crash on takeoff, 2 are forced to return for repairs, and 2 go missing over the Pacific ocean.<\/p>\n 1945 \u2013 “The Father of the Kamikazi”, Admiral Takijir\u014d \u014cnishi commits seppuku without the assistance of a Kaishakunin – an assistant that immediately cuts off the head of the suicide – taking 15 hours to die.<\/p>\n 1954 \u2013 The first issue of Sports Illustrated<\/em> is published.<\/p>\n 1959 \u2013 Fleet Admiral William Halsey, Jr. USN dies while on holiday on Fishers Island, New York.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013 Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet. The records stands until 2012.<\/p>\n 1966 \u2013 The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong.<\/p>\n 1977 \u2013 Elvis Presley dies at age 42 in his Graceland mansion, in Memphis.<\/p>\n 1987 \u2013 Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes after takeoff in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 passengers and crew on board, plus 2 people on the ground.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet, at the time becoming the world’s highest residence above ground level.<\/p>\n 2010 \u2013 AIRES Flight 8250, a Boeing 737, crashes short of the runway on landing at Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport in San Andr\u00e9s, San Andr\u00e9s y Providencia, Colombia, killing 2 of the 131 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 Lightning strikes ignite the ‘August Complex’ fire in California, eventually burning over one million acres of land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" August 16 1777 \u2013 U.S. forces led by General John Stark rout British and Brunswick troops under Friedrich Baum at Bennington near Walloomsac, New York. 1780 \u2013 British forces under the command of General Cornwallis rout U.S. troops led by General Horatio Gates near Camden, South Carolina 1792 \u2013 During the French Revolution, a month … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58246"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95215,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58246\/revisions\/95215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}