On Aug. 16, 1777, American troops led by Gen. John Stark defeated a Hessian force under British command near Bennington, Vt., during the Revolutionary War.
In 1812, Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.
In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln prohibited the states of the Union from trading with the seceding states of the Confederacy.
In 1896, gold was discovered at Bonanza Creek in the Yukon (this sentence as published has been corrected in this text).
In 1914, the British Expeditionary Force landed in France during World War I.
In 1920, a ball thrown by pitcher Carl Mays of the New York Yankees hit shortstop Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians on the head. Chapman died the next day.
In 1948, baseball great Babe Ruth died in New York at age 53.
In 1960, Britain granted independence to the crown colony of Cyprus.
In 1978, the Carter administration modified a proposed fighter plane and missile sale to Iran, forcing the shah`s government to accept an older system. In 1982, the Saturday Review literary magazine ended publication after 58 years.
In 1983, the United States expressed ”deep regrets” that the Army had hidden former Gestapo officer Klaus Barbie after World War II and employed him as a spy.
In 1984, a federal jury in Los Angeles acquitted automaker John DeLorean on all counts in a cocaine conspiracy indictment.
