Template:On this day/16 August

16 August: Unthirldom Day (Cyprus)

• 1930 – The first colour soond cairtoon, cried Fiddlesticks, is made bi Ub Iwerks.
• 1954 – The first issue o Sports Illustrated is published.
• 1960 – Cyprus (banner picturt) gains its unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
• 1964 – Vietnam War: A coup d'état replaces Dương Văn Minh wi General Nguyễn Khánh as Preses o Sooth Vietnam. A new constitution is established wi aid frae the U.S. Embassy.
• 1972 – In an unsuccessfu coup d'état attempt, the Ryal Moroccan Air Force fires upon Hassan II of Morocco's plane while he is traivellin back tae Rabat.

T. E. Lawrence (b. 1888) · Madonna (b. 1958) · Elvis Presley (d. 1977)