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On This Day: August 16

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On Aug. 16, 1977, singer Elvis Presley died at Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tenn., at age 42.

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On Aug. 16, 1913, Menachem Begin, the prime minister of Israel from 1977 to 1983, was born. Following his death on March 9, 1992, his obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

1858	A telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.
1888	T.E. Lawrence, the British soldier who gained fame as "Lawrence of Arabia," was born in Tremadoc, Wales.
1913	Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin was born in Brest-Litovsk in present-day Belarus.
1948	Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth died at age 53.
1954	Sports Illustrated was first published by Time Inc.
1956	Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1960	Britain granted independence to Cyprus.
1987	Thousands of people worldwide began a two-day celebration of the "harmonic convergence," which believers called the start of a new, purer age of humankind.
1988	Vice President George H.W. Bush tapped Indiana Sen. Dan Quayle to be his running mate on the Republican ticket.
2000	Delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominated Vice President Al Gore for president.
2003	Idi Amin, the former dictator of Uganda, died in Saudi Arabia.
2007	Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held for 3-1/2 years as an enemy combatant, was convicted in Miami of helping Islamic extremists and plotting overseas attacks. (He was sentenced to 17 years, four months in prison.)
2008	Michael Phelps won the 100-meter butterfly by a hundredth of a second for his seventh gold medal of the Beijing Olympics, tying Mark Spitz's 1972 record.
2008	Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres and actress Portia de Rossi were married at their Beverly Hills, Calif., home.
2010	China eclipsed Japan as the world's second biggest economy after three decades of blistering growth.

Current Birthdays

Actor Steve Carell ("The Office") turns 49 years old today.

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1923	Shimon Peres, Israeli politician, turns 88
1928	Ann Blyth, Actress, turns 83
1930	Frank Gifford, Football Hall of Famer, turns 81
1930	Tony Trabert, Tennis Hall of Famer, turns 81
1931	Eydie Gorme, Singer, turns 80
1933	Julie Newmar, Actress ("Batman"), turns 78
1945	Bob Balaban, Actor, turns 66
1946	Lesley Ann Warren, Actress, turns 65
1947	Carol Moseley-Braun, Former U.S. senator, D-Ill., turns 64
1953	Kathie Lee Gifford, TV host ("Today"), turns 58
1954	Joshua Bolten, Former White House chief of staff, turns 57
1954	James Cameron, Director ("Titanic"), turns 57
1957	Laura Innes, Actress ("ER"), turns 54
1958	Angela Bassett, Actress, turns 53
1958	Madonna, Singer, turns 53
1967	Donovan Leitch, Actor, singer, turns 44
1968	Andy Milder, Actor ("Weeds"), turns 43
1972	Emily Robison, Country singer, musician (The Dixie Chicks), turns 39
1980	Vanessa Carlton, Singer, turns 31
1988	Rumer Willis, Actress, turns 23

Historic Birthdays

Menachem Begin8/16/1913 - 3/9/1992Israeli prime minister (1977-83).Go to obituary »

86	Sarah Porter 8/16/1813 - 2/17/1900 American educator
72	St. John Bosco 8/16/1815 - 1/31/1888 Italian priest; founded the Salesian Order
46	T. E. Lawrence 8/16/1888 - 5/19/1935 English archaeologist, military strategist and author
27	Jules Laforgue 8/16/1860 - 8/20/1887 French Symbolist poet
102	Amos Alonzo Stagg 8/16/1862 - 3/17/1965 American collegiate football coach
85	George Meany 8/16/1894 - 1/10/1980 American labor leader; president of the AFL-CIO (1955-79)
32	Wallace Henry Thurman 8/16/1902 - 12/22/1934 African-American editor, critic, novelist and playwright
66	Wendell Stanley 8/16/1904 - 6/15/1971 American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (1946)
66	Ernst Schumacher 8/16/1911 - 9/4/1977 English economist
61	Stuart A. Roosa 8/16/1933 - 12/12/1994 American astronaut
61	Fess Parker 8/16/1924 - 3/18/2010 American actor