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On August 11, the unofficial historic markers were removed by city officials, and the RPD upped its efforts to prevent overnight camping on the site. [ 65 ] On August 13, the ongoing protests joined with student activist groups at nearby Virginia Commonwealth University to defund or abolish the VCU Police Department . [ 66 ]
16 August 16, 1947 (Saturday) 17 August ... President Truman estimated in his annual mid-year review of the US budget that the government would end its 1948 fiscal ...
Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun [1] (born August 16, 1947), is an American diplomat, politician, and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999.
1947 – Carol Moseley Braun, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to New Zealand; 1947 – Katharine Hamnett, English fashion designer; 1948 – Earl Blumenauer, American politician, U.S. Representative from Oregon; 1948 – Barry Hay, Indian-born Dutch rock musician; 1948 – Mike Jorgensen, American baseball player and ...
August 16 1947, or simply 1947, is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language historical drama film written and directed by N.S. Ponkumar, and produced by AR Murugadoss, Om Prakash Bhatt, Narsiram Choudhary Under the banner of A. R. Murugadoss productions, Purple Bull Entertainment, and God bless entertainment.
August 13 – John Stocker, voice actor; August 24 - Linda Hutcheon, literary critic and theorist; August 30 - Allan Rock, politician and diplomat; September 24 Tim Ecclestone, ice hockey player and coach (d. 2024) R. H. Thomson, actor; September 29 - Hubert Gagnon, actor (d. 2020)
Tex Williams (pictured in later life) spent 15 consecutive weeks at number one with "Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)". From 1944 until 1957, Billboard magazine published a chart that ranked the most-played country music songs in jukeboxes in the United States, based on a survey of over 3000 operators "in all sections of the country"; until 1948 it was the magazine's only country music chart.
Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take a "direct action" using general strikes and economic shut down to demand a separate Muslim homeland after the British exit from India.