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August 16

What happened on this day

Bolt's 9.6918 years agoUsain Bolt sets a 100m world record of 9.69 seconds in the Beijing Olympic final in 2008, finishing with his arms outstretched.
Elvis dies49 years agoElvis Presley dies at Graceland in 1977.
Madonna born68 years agoThe Queen of Pop is born in Michigan in 1958; four decades of reinvention make her the best-selling female recording artist on record.
Marikana massacre14 years agoSouth African police shoot dead 34 striking platinum miners in 2012, the deadliest state violence since the end of apartheid.
Gozan no OkuribiFive giant bonfires are lit on the mountains around Kyoto to close Obon, lighting the way for ancestral spirits back to the other world.

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