On Aug. 16, 1812, Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.
In 1845 Gabriel Lippman, inventor of color photography, was born in Hollerich, Luxembourg. 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 in World War I. In 1930 sportscaster and former pro football player Frank Gifford was born in Santa Monica, Calif.
In 1948 baseball great Babe Ruth died of cancer in New York at age 53.
In 1953 TV personality Kathie Lee Gifford was born in Paris.
In 1954 Sports Illustrated magazine was first published by Time Inc.
In 1956 Adlai E. Stevenson was nominated for president at the Democratic convention in Chicago. In 1976 former Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was charged in Tokyo with having accepted $1.6 million in bribes to arrange purchases of Lockheed aircraft by All Nippon Airways.
In 1977 singer Elvis Presley died in his Graceland mansion in Memphis at age 42. In 1982 the Saturday Review literary magazine ended publication after 58 years. In 1984 a federal jury in Los Angeles acquitted automaker John DeLorean on all counts on cocaine conspiracy charges.
In 1987 the crash of a Northwest Airlines jet taking off from Detroit’s airport took 156 lives. (The sole survivor was a 4-year-old girl.)
