On August 16, 1837, Lincoln wrote Mary a letter suggesting he would not blame her if she ended the relationship.

** August 16 ( Eastern Orthodox liturgics )

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Unveiled on 16 August 1963, a wooden and metal organ in Manning Chapel, Acadia University, is dedicated to Acadia University's war dead of the First World War.

Agostino Carracci ( or Caracci ) ( 16 August 1557 – 22 March 1602 ) was an Italian painter and printmaker.

# Heinrich V " der Fromme " ( b. Dresden, 16 March 1473 – d. Dresden, 18 August 1541 ).

To date, one Major League player has died as a result of being struck by a pitch: Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was hit in the head by Carl Mays on August 16, 1920, and died the next morning.

Bardot's other husbands were German millionaire playboy Gunter Sachs ( 14 July 1966 – 1 October 1969 ) and Bernard d ' Ormale ( 16 August 1992 – present ).

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

Holly helped win over an all-black audience to rock and roll / rockabilly when the Crickets were booked at New York's Apollo Theater for August 16 – 22, 1957.

At 14: 00 on 1 August, lookouts on HMS Zealous reported the French anchored in Aboukir Bay, its signal lieutenant just beating the lieutenant on HMS Goliath with the signal, but inaccurately describing 16 French ships of the line instead of 13.

On 16 August the grounded prize Heureux was set on fire and destroyed as no longer fit for service and on 18 August Guerrier and Mercure were also burnt.

DeMille married Constance Adams on August 16, 1902 and had one child, Cecilia.

On August 16, the Indians were playing the Yankees at the Polo Grounds in New York.

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NetAlert, the software made available free of charge by the Australian government, was allegedly cracked by a 16 year old student, Tom Wood, less than a week after its release in August 2007.

However, in an in-person interview held at the Apple Store Soho on August 16, 2012, Cronenberg commented that the financing for the " Eastern Promises " sequel had fallen through about two weeks earlier.

* 1959 – The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is then formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.

The Central Committee also relieved him of duties as a member of the Party Presidium ( as the Politburo had been called since 1952 ) on 16 July 1960.

The first working laser ( a pulsed ruby laser ) was demonstrated on May 16, 1960, by Theodore Maiman at the Hughes Research Laboratories.

From 1960 to 1970, student enrollment tripled, rising from 5, 600 to 16, 800.

Von Braun's thesis, Construction, Theoretical, and Experimental Solution to the Problem of the Liquid Propellant Rocket ( dated 16 April 1934 ), was kept classified by the German army and was not published until 1960.

* July 16 – John F. Kennedy, Jr., American actor and son of John F. Kennedy ( b. 1960 )

* June 16 – Arthur Meighen, ninth Prime Minister of Canada ( d. 1960 )

* May 16 – Walter Yust, American encyclopædia editor ( d. 1960 )

Sadler's Wells opera presented an English version by Geoffrey Dunn beginning on 16 May 1960.

On 16 August 1960, Joseph Kittinger, in the Excelsior III test jump, set the current world record for the highest parachute jump.

Forty days later, the Soviet Union made its first successful underwater launch of a submarine ballistic missile in the White Sea on 10 September 1960 from the same converted Project 611 ( Zulu Class ) submarine that first launched the R-11FM ( SS-N-1 Scud-A, naval modification of SS-1 Scud ) on 16 September 1955.

Vladimir Mikhaylovich Komarov (; 16 March 192724 April 1967 ) was a Soviet test pilot, aerospace engineer and cosmonaut in the first group of cosmonauts selected in 1960.

The population growth experienced during the nineteenth century accelerated steadily beginning around 1920: 16, 013 inhabitants that year, 33, 360 in 1960, 53, 237 in 1981.

On August 16, 1960, he made the final jump from the Excelsior III at.

Salem annexed South Salem in 1953 and also an eastern tract in 1960, giving it a population of 16, 058-making it Virginia's largest town at the time.

By 1960 Mexican Americans made up one half of Uvalde County's 16, 015 population.

* 1960, July 16 – Caverns of Sonora open to the public.

In the wake of the student-led April 19 movement in 1960 that overthrew the South Korean president Rhee Syngman and the May 16, 1961, military coup d ' état that brought General Park Chung-hee to power in the south, North Korea sought a mutual defense treaty with the Soviet Union and China.

In 1960, the population of North Richland Hills was beginning to rise at 8, 662 residents, with that number doubling to 16, 514 by 1970.

Lawrence Mervil Tibbett ( November 16, 1896 – July 15, 1960 ) was a famous American opera singer and recording artist who also performed as a film actor and radio personality.

By November 1960, 16 episodes, more than half of the projected 29, were already filmed, and five of those had been broadcast.

By November 1960, 16 episodes, more than half of the projected 29, were already filmed, and five of those had been broadcast.

By December 1970 Burke formed eight of his children, including Kyrell " Connie " Burke Groves ; Eleanor A. Burke, who was named after his grandmother who raised him ; Melanie Burke ( born March 1960 ); Gemini Curtis Burke ( born June 3, 1961 ), Solomon Vincent Burke, Jr. ( born 15 October 1961 ); Carolyn Burke ; and John Fitzgerald Kennedy " JFK " Burke into a " kiddie-soul " group, the Sons and Daughters of Solomon, whose entire output consisted of " Think of the Children " ( later known as " Save the Children ") ( K14354 ), recorded on December 10, 1971 ; " Don't Leave Me Now " ( K14233 ) and " A Piece of Clay " ( K14354 ), recorded on 21 December 1970 ; MGM single, " Everybody's Got Fingers " ( written by Solomon Burke, and Melanie Burke and JFK Burke ), recorded on January 16, 1971 ; b / w " Don't Leave Me Now " ( MGM K14233 ), a single " Save the Children " ( 1972 ), and a 1973 album " Kid Power " ( PRD0010, MGS 2994 ), the soundtrack to Kid Power, a cartoon adaptation of Morrie Turner's Wee Pals comic strip that was part of ABC Television's Saturday morning lineup during the 1972 – 73 season, on MGM's Lion subsidiary.

Having acquired a camera at age 16, he tried his hand at documentary films before making his first notable short, L ' Amour existe, in 1960.