Today is Monday, August 16, the 228th day of 2010. There are 137 days left in the year.
1743 ― Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton)
1819 ― Manchester Massacre; English police charge unemployed demonstrators
1863 ― Emancipation Proclamation signed
1898 ― Roller coaster patented
1954 ― Sports Illustrated publishes its first issue
1955 ― Fiat Motors orders first private atomic reactor
1981 ― Highest score in World Cup soccer match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
1985 ― Singer Madonna weds actor Sean Penn
1988 ― IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
1990 ― Iraq orders 4,000 Britons and 2,500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq