This Day in Wrestling History - August 16

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Pay-Per-Views
2009: TNA Hard Justice

Television Shows
1992: WCW The Main Event
1993: WWF Monday Night RAW #30
1994: ECW Hardcore TV #69
1997: WCW Saturday Night
1997: WWF Shotgun Satruday Night #33
1998: WWF SuNDAY NiGHT HeAT #3 (Rating: 3.40)
1999: WCW Monday Nitro (Rating: 3.30)
1999: WWF RAW is WAR #325 (Rating: 6.60)
2000: WCW Thunder
2001: WWF SmackDown! #105 (Rating: 4.30)
2003: WWE Velocity
2004: WWE RAW #586 (Rating: 3.40)
2007: TNA iMPACT! #164 (Rating: 1.05)
2009: WWE Vintage Collection #63
2010: Ring of Honor Wrestling #70
2012: TNA IMPACT WRESTLING #423 (Rating: 1.06/Viewers: 1,456,000)
2013: WWE SmackDown #731 (Rating: 1.83/Viewers: 2,400,000)

Title Changes
1986: The Rock 'n' Roll Express (Ricky Morton & Robert Gibson) win NWA World Tag Team Championships
2009: Kevin Nash wins TNA Legends Championship
2009: Samoa Joe wins TNA X-Division Championship
2009: ODB wins TNA Knockouts Championship
2010: World Tag Team Championships defunct
2012: Miss Tessmacher wins TNA Knockouts Championship

Birthdays
1929: Fritz Von Erich
1937: Uncle Elmer
1946: Dick Murdoch
1986: Colin Cassady
1989: Cedric Alexander

Deaths
1990: Pat O'Connor

Debuts
1982: Rick Rude​

Source: wrestlingdata.com