August 16

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1	1819	Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England.	Hood	August Charge	Hood / Meredith Split Tape
2	1841	U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.	Scholastic Deth	Kill Em With Politics	Revenge of the Nerds
3	1869	Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.	Yeasayer	The Children	Odd Blood
4	1960	Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300 m), setting three records that still stand today: High-altitude jump, free-fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.	Supercar	Jump	16/50 1997-1999
5	1989	A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.	The Magnetic Fields	I Don't Believe in the Sun	69 Love Songs, Vol. 1

(Historical facts about August 16 are from Wikipedia.)