August 16 Holidays

✡️ Religious Observances

• Islamic: Urs of Shaykh Bahaʾuddin Shah Naqshband ق major

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2017 — Minamata Convention on Mercury entered into force. ↗
• 2015 — More than 96 people are killed and hundreds injured following a series of air-raids by the Syrian Arab Air Force on the rebel-held... ↗
• 2013 — The ferry St. Thomas Aquinas collides with a cargo ship and sinks at Cebu, Philippines, killing 61 people with 59 others missing. ↗
• 2012 — South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute at Marikana near Rustenburg. ↗
• 2008 — The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423 m), at the time becoming the world's highest... ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1999 — Karen Chen, American figure skater
• 1997 — Greyson Chance, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1996 — Caeleb Dressel, American swimmer
• 1994 — Jesika Malečková, Czech tennis player
• 1992 — Diego Schwartzman, Argentinian tennis player