August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 137 days remaining. August 16 - Events. 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Bennington - British forces are defeated by American troops. 1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Camden - The British defeat the Americans near Camden, South Carolina. 1812 - War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the ...

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For other uses, see 1313 (number). 1313 - Events. Siege of Rostock ends 1313 - Births. June 16 - Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (died 1375) August 1 - Emperor Kogon of Japan (died 1364) August 13 - Aradia de Toscano, female messianic figure in Italian witchcraft Bartolus de Saxoferrato, Italian law professor (died 1357) 1313 - Deaths. August 24 - Henry ...

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1645 - Ongoing events. English Civil War (1642-1649) 1645 - Births. August 10 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (d. 1711) August 16 - Jean de La Bruyère, French writer (d. 1696) September 21 - Louis Joliet, Canadian explorer (d. 1700) Captain William Kidd, Scottish pirate (d. 1701) See also Category:1645 births. 1645 - Deaths. January 10 - William Laud, Archbi ...

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Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (August 16, 1832–August 31, 1920) was a German physiologist and psychologist. He is generally acknowledged as the founder of experimental psychology and cognitive psychology. Wundt combined philosophical introspection with techniques and laboratory apparatuses brought over from his physiological studies with Helmholtz, as well as many of his own design. This experimental introspection was in contrast to what had been called psychology until then, a branch of philosophy where people introspected themse ...

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1485 - In Fiction. In Blackadder - August 21 - The first Baldrick/Blackadder servancy begins. August 22 - Richard III wins the Battle of Bosworth Field, only to be killed by Edmund Blackadder. Henry VII escapes and Richard IV becomes King. 1485 - Births. June 24 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German religious reformer (died 1558) December 16 - Catherine of Aragon, queen of Henry VIII of England (died 1536) Leo Africanus ...

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(as part of Pakistan) - August 14, 1947 East Pakistan - December 16, 1971 (Officially separated) West Pakistan consisted of the western part of Pakistan from 1947 until 1971, when East Pakistan became Bangladesh and West Pakistan became the present-day Pakistan. When the United Kingdom left India, India was divided based on religious variation. Pakistan was created, and gained independence on August 14 1947 following the end of British rule over the subc ...

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Dimitri Ivanovich Pisarev (Russian: Дмитрий Иванович Писарев; 14 August [O.S. 2 August] 1840 - 16 July [O.S. 4 July] 1868) was a radical Russian writer and social critic who, according to Georgi Plekhanov, "spent the best years of his life in a fortress". Pisarev was one of the writers who propelled the democratic-revolutionary trend in Russia during the 1860's. The next generation of Russians, made famous by the events of 1905 and 1917, ac ...

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See also: Afghanistan timeline August 2002 August 2002 - August 31 2002. Recent celebrity deaths: Lionel Hampton, jazz vibraphone master, dies. Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A think tank affiliated with the Arab League ended its meeting in Cairo by calling Jews "enemies of all nations", by claiming that Arabs, as Semites, cannot be anti-Semitic, and by claiming that the events of September 11, 2001 were concocted by the United States government. See http://www.zccf.org.a ...

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André de Montbard (c. 1103-January 17, 1156) was the fifth Grand Master of the Knights Templar and also one of the new founders of the Order. The Montbard family came from Hochadel in Burgundy, and André was an uncle of St. Bernard of Clairvaux. He entered the Order in 1129 and went to Palestine, where he quickly rose to the rank of seneschal, deputy and second-in-command to the Grand Master. After the Siege of Ascalon on August 22, 1153, André was elected Grand Master to replace Bernard de Tremelay, who had been killed during an assault on the city on August 16. He died on January 17, 1156, i ...

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Windows 95 (codename Chicago) is a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit graphical user interface-based operating system released on August 24, 1995 by the Microsoft Corporation. Windows 95 is a direct result of combining Microsoft's formerly separate MS-DOS and Windows products. Windows 95 is the first in that line without support for older, 16-bit x86 processors, thus requiring an Intel 80386 (or compatible) processor running in protected mode. It featured significant improvements to the graphical user interface (GUI) and underlying wo ...

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List of Australian Idol semi finalists - Group 1 August 16 2005. Anne Robertson - Home by Diana Ross Chloe Zuel - Because Of You by Kelly Clarkson Chris Lüder - Beautiful Soul by Jesse McCartney Dan Spillane - I Don't Want To Be by Gavin DeGraw Irene Bosmans - Turn The Beat Around by Gloria Estefan Jade-Lori Crompton - 1 Thing by Amerie Josh Williams - All My Life by K-Ci & Jojo Lindsay West - Time After Time by ...

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List of Australian Idol semi finalists - Group 1 August 10 2003. Chelsea J Gibson - Beautiful by Christina Aguilera Daniel Wakefield - You'll Never Walk Alone by Rodgers & Hammerstein Eli Diache - Angel by Sarah McLachlan Lorena Alegria - To Zion by Lauryn Hill Natalie Ferguson - Son Of A Preacher Man by Dusty Springfield Peter Ryan - Right Here Waiting by Richard Marx Shannon Thompson - Lately by Stevie Wonder Veron ...

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Battle of Warsaw 1920 - Prelude to the battle. The Poles were fighting to preserve their newly regained independence, lost in the 1795 Third Partition of Poland, and to carve out the borders of a new multinational federation (Międzymorze) from the territories of their former partitioners, Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary. The Bolsheviks had in 1919 gained the upper hand in the Russian Civil War, dealing crippling blows to the White Russians. Vladimir Lenin viewed Poland as a bridge that had to be crosse ...

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Battle of Warsaw 1920 - Polish. 3 Fronts (Northern, Central, Southern), 7 Armies, a total of 32 divisions: 46,000 infantry; 2,000 cavalry; 730 machine guns; 192 artillery batteries; and several units of (mostly FT-17) tanks. Fronts: Northern Front: 250 km., from East Prussia, along the Vistula River, to Modlin: 5th Army 1st Army - Warsaw 2nd Army - Warsaw Central Front: 4th Army - between Dęblin and Kock 3rd Army - between south of Kock and Brody S ...

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Brazil at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Athletics. Men's 100 metres: Vicente de Lima - Round 1, 10.23 s (did not advance) André Domingos - Round 1, 10.28 s (did not advance) Jarbas Mascarenhas - Round 1, 10.34 s (did not advance) Women's 100 metres: Rosemar Maria Coelho Neto - Round 2, 11.45 s (did not advance) Men's 110 metre hurdles: Mateus Facho Inocêncio - Final, 13.49 s (7th place) Márcio Simão de Souza - Round 2, 13.54 s ( ...

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