Historical Events for 16th August 2025

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1920 - Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman is hit in the head by NY Yankees pitcher Carl Mays and dies the next day in the only MLB game-related fatality
1942 - British Prime Minister Winston Churchill travels back to Cairo from Moscow
1992 - Moses Kiptanui of Kenya runs a world 3,000 m record of 7:28.96 in Cologne, Germany
2008 - Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt sets a new world record of 9.69 seconds to win the 100 m gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics
2015 - PGA Championship Men's Golf, Whistling Straits GC: Australian Jason Day wins, setting major championship record of 20-under-par; beats Jordan Spieth by 3 shots
2018 - World's first floating dairy farm opens in Merwehaven Harbour, Rotterdam, Netherlands, with 40 cows milked by robots
2018 - International Tennis Federation votes to change the format of the Davis Cup to a high prize money, season-ending, 18-team tournament at a neutral site; a 24-team qualifying tournament starts in February 2019
2020 - At least 17 people are killed in an attack on a beach resort in Mogadishu, Somalia, by the al-Shabab group

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