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August
On This Day, August 16
- 2020: The August Complex fire in California burns more than one million acres of land.
- 2015: More than 96 people are killed and hundreds injured following a series of air-raids by the Syrian Arab Air Force on the rebel-held market town of Douma.
- 2015: Trigana Air Flight 267, an ATR 42, crashes in Oksibil, Bintang Mountains Regency, killing all 54 people on board.
- 2013: The ferry St. Thomas Aquinas collides with a cargo ship and sinks at Cebu, Philippines, killing 61 people with 59 others missing.
- 2012: South African police fatally shoot 34 miners and wound 78 more during an industrial dispute at Marikana near Rustenburg.