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Events on August 16

• 1456 The failure to make payments to the Teutonic Order's soldiers during the Thirteen Years' War leads mercenary captains to sell six castles pledged to them, including the Teutonic Order castle of Marienburg, to the Prussian Confederation and King Casimir IV Jagiellon of Poland.
• 1809 At the initiative of Wilhelm von Humboldt, the University of Berlin, later named after him, is founded.
• 1876 At the Bayreuth Festival Theatre, under the direction of Hans Richter, the world premiere of the opera Siegfried, the second day of the tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung by Richard Wagner, takes place.
• 1896 George Carmack finds gold on the Klondike River in Canada's Yukon Territory. The news sparks a gold rush just under a year later.
• 1935 At the Berlin Radio Exhibition, the Magnetophon, a magnetic tape recording and playback device, is presented.
• 1952 At the Kalkberg Stadium in Bad Segeberg, the first Winnetou festivals begin; from 1954, they are known as the Karl May Games.
• 1956 The film adaptation of Carl Zuckmayer's drama The Captain of Köpenick, starring Heinz Rühmann in the title role, premieres in Cologne.
• 1976 Dancing Queen, a No. 1 hit in the USA and many other countries and thus probably the most successful song worldwide by the Swedish pop group ABBA, is released.
• 1977 The American singer, musician and actor Elvis Presley, regarded as the most successful solo performer worldwide, dies at his home, “Graceland,” in Memphis, Tennessee.
• 1988 In Gladbeck, the Gladbeck hostage crisis begins in a branch of Deutsche Bank and ends only 54 hours later on the motorway between Cologne and Frankfurt am Main.
• 1993 The Debian project is brought to life by Ian Murdock.
• 2005 The World Youth Day in Cologne opens.

Born on August 16

• 1884 Hugo Gernsback, German publisher and writer
• 1892 Hal Foster, American comics artist
• 1913 Menachem Begin, Israeli politician and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1920 Charles Bukowski, American poet and writer
• 1930 Wolfgang Völz, German television and film actor
• 1960 Franz Welser-Möst, Austrian conductor
• 1971 Stefan Klos, German football player
• 1980 Vanessa Carlton, American pop singer and pianist
• 1991 Evanna Lynch, Irish actress
• 2001 Jannik Sinner, Italian tennis player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „16. August“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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