^B{^#!16!6 August^N! National Day of Bolivia. Feast of the Transfiguration and Feast day of Saints Justus and Pastor, and St Hormisdas, pope.
^B{939^B} The Spanish defeated the Moors at the Battle of Salamanca. ^B{1806^B} The Holy Roman Empire came to an end when Francis II renounced the crown, becoming Francis I, Emperor of Austria. ^B{1889^B} The Savoy Hotel, London, UK, opened. ^B{1890^B} William Kemmler, a murderer, became the first man to be executed in the electric chair, in Auburn Prison, New York. ^B{1926^B} US swimmer Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, in 14 hr 34 min. ^B{1945^B} An atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima from a US Boeing B29 bomber. ^B{1962^B} Jamaica became independent after being a British colony for 300 years. ^B{1974^B} US President Nixon resigned. ^B{1988^B} Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova danced again with the Kirov Ballet in London, UK, 18 years after she defected to the West.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Daniel O'Connell, Irish politician, ^B{1775^B}; Alfred Tennyson, English poet, ^B{1809^B}; Paul Claudel, French poet, ^B{1868^B}; Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist, ^B{1881^B}; Robert Mitchum, US film actor, ^B{1917^B}; Chris Bonington, British mountaineer, ^B{1934^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare, ^B{1623^B}; Ben Jonson, English playwright, ^B{1637^B}; Diego Velßzquez, Spanish painter, ^B{1660^B}; Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, Cuban dictator, ^B{1973^B}; Pope Paul VI, ^B{1978^B}.
