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| August 16th |
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| About August 16th is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 137 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. Births 1930 - Frank Gifford, Hall of Fame running back, receiver, broadcaster 1953 - Kathie Lee Gifford, television hostess, singer, actor 1958 - Angela Bassett, actress ( What's Love Got to Do with It) 1958 - Madonna, singer, actress 1962 - Steve Carell, actor (The Office, The 40-Year-Old Virgin) Deaths 1948 - Babe Ruth, Hall of Fame baseball player 1977 - Elvis Presley, singer, musician, actor Events 1898 - A patent is granted to Edwin Prescott for a "loop-the-loop" roller coaster, which gets installed at Coney Island, New York two years later. 2003 - U.S. Congressman, Bill Janklow of South Dakota, hits and kills a motorcyclist with his Cadillac Seville at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota. Janklow is convicted of manslaughter on December 8th, 2003 and announces his resignation from Congress shortly after. |
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