{"id":23030,"date":"2020-08-16T03:22:38","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T21:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=23030"},"modified":"2020-08-14T16:00:41","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T10:30:41","slug":"history-of-16-august-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-16-august-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 16 August"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>2005&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;West\n     Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a&nbsp;McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes\n     in&nbsp;Machiques,&nbsp;Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board.<\/li><li>2008&nbsp;\u2013 The&nbsp;Trump\n     International Hotel and Tower&nbsp;in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet\n     (423&nbsp;m), at the time becoming the world&#8217;s\n     highest&nbsp;residence&nbsp;above ground-level.<\/li><li>2012&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;South African\n     police&nbsp;fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during\n     an&nbsp;industrial dispute&nbsp;at Marikana near&nbsp;Rustenburg.<\/li><li>2013&nbsp;\u2013 The ferry&nbsp;<em>St. Thomas Aquinas<\/em>&nbsp;collides\n     with a cargo ship and sinks at&nbsp;Cebu,&nbsp;Philippines, killing 61\n     people with 59 others missing.<\/li><li>2015&nbsp;\u2013 More than 96\n     people are killed and hundreds injured following a&nbsp;series of\n     air-raids&nbsp;by the&nbsp;Syrian Arab Air Force&nbsp;on\n     the&nbsp;rebel-held market town of&nbsp;Douma.<\/li><li>2015 \u2013&nbsp;Trigana Air Flight\n     267, an&nbsp;ATR 42, crashes in&nbsp;Oksibl, Pegunungan Bintang, killing\n     all 54 people on board.<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_16#cite_note-6\"><sup>[<\/sup><\/a><\/li><li>2017&nbsp;\u2013 The&nbsp;Minamata\n     Convention on Mercury&nbsp;enters in force.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1981\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Roque Santa Cruz, Paraguayan footballer<\/li><li>1982\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Joleon Lescott, English footballer<\/li><li>1983\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Nikolaos Zisis, Greek basketball player<\/li><li>1984\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Matteo Anesi, Italian speed skater<\/li><li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Didier Cuche, Swiss skier<\/li><li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Candice Dupree, American basketball player<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_16#cite_note-13\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>1984 \u2013\u00a0Konstantin Vassiljev, Estonian footballer<\/li><li>1985\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Cristin Milioti, American actress<\/li><li>1986\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Yu Darvish, Japanese baseball player<\/li><li>1987\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Carey Price, Canadian ice hockey player<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_16#cite_note-14\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>1987 \u2013\u00a0Eri Kitamura, Japanese voice actress and singer.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_16#cite_note-doi1-15\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>1988\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Isma\u00efl Aissati, Moroccan footballer<\/li><li>1989\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Wang Hao, Chinese race walker<\/li><li>1989 \u2013\u00a0Moussa Sissoko, French footballer<\/li><li>1990\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Godfrey Oboabona, Nigerian footballer<\/li><li>1991\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Eduardo de Ara\u00fajo, Brazilian footballer<\/li><li>1992\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Diego Schwartzman, Argentinian tennis player<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_16#cite_note-16\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>1993\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Cameron Monaghan, American actor and model<\/li><li>1996\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Caeleb Dressel, American swimmer<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_16#cite_note-18\">[<\/a><\/sup><\/li><li>1997\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Greyson Chance, American musician<\/li><li>1999\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Karen Chen, American figure skater<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2005&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a&nbsp;McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes in&nbsp;Machiques,&nbsp;Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. 2008&nbsp;\u2013 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