Today is Tuesday, August 16, the 228th day of 2011. 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
1870 ― Fred Goldsmith demonstrates curve ball isn't an optical illusion
1898 ― Roller coaster patented
1936 ― 11th Olympic games close in Berlin
1959 ― USSR introduces installment buying
1981 ― Highest score in World Cup soccer match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
1988 ― IBM introduces software for artificial intelligence
1990 ― Iraq orders 4,000 Britons and 2,500 Americans in Kuwait to Iraq