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What Happened on September 16th This Day in History

Year	Name
2021	A 6.0 Mw  earthquake strikes Lu County, Sichuan, China, killing three and injuring more than 88.
2019	Five months before the COVID-19 stock market crash, an overnight spike in lending rates in the United States prompts the Federal Reserve to conduct operations in the repo market.
2015	A 8.3 Mw  earthquake strikes the Chilean city of Illapel, killing 15 people, injuring at least 34, leaving at least six missing, and causing extensive damage. One person also dies in Argentina.
2014	The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
2013	A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard.
2007	One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 130 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand, killing 90 people.
2007	Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.
2005	The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
2004	Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.
1994	The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.
1992	The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ends in the United States with a 40-year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.
1992	Black Wednesday: The British pound is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
1990	The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
1987	The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
1982	Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.
1979	Eight people escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.
1978	The 7.4 Mw  Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people are killed.
1976	Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
1975	Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
1975	Cape Verde, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
1975	The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
1970	King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict came to be known as Black September.
1966	The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
1963	Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore is soon expelled from this new country.
1961	The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
1961	Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
1961	Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
1959	The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
1956	TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
1955	The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
1955	A Soviet Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
1953	American Airlines Flight 723 crashes in Colonie, New York, killing 28 people.
1945	World War II: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.
1943	World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
1940	World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
1920	The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
1914	World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
1908	The General Motors Corporation is founded.
1893	Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
1880	The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York.
1863	Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
1822	French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences, reports a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as it is now known) is stress-induced birefringence.
1810	With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
1779	American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
1776	American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
1732	In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory and a violent explosion ensues, killing two-thirds of its inhabitants.
1701	James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
1620	A determined band of 35 religious dissenters – Pilgrims set sail for Virginia from Plymouth, England in the Mayflower, jubilant at the prospect of practicing their unorthodox brand of worship in the New World.
1400	Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
681	Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council.

Famous People Born on September 16

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Year	Name
1916	Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, Caribbean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis (d. 1978)
1940	Butch Buchholz, American tennis player
1940	Hamiet Bluiett, American jazz saxophonist and composer (d. 2018)
1941	Joe Butler, American singer, autoharp player, and drummer
1965	Karl-Heinz Riedle, German footballer and manager
1880	Clara Ayres, American nurse (d. 1917)
1507	Jiajing Emperor of China (d. 1567)
1858	Bonar Law, Canadian-Scottish banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
1964	Molly Shannon, American actress, comedian and producer
1955	Ron Brewer, American basketball player

Famous People Deaths On September 16

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on September 16. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1946	James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1877)
2011	Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, American singer-songwriter, harmonica player, and drummer (b. 1936)
1919	Maria Nikiforova, Ukrainian anarchist partisan leader (b. 1885)
655	Pope Martin I
1607	Mary Stuart, English-Scottish princess (b. 1605)
2019	H. S. Dillon, Indonesian politician and human rights defender (b. 1945)
1226	Pandulf Verraccio, Roman ecclesiastical politician
1944	Gustav Bauer, German journalist and politician, 11th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
1581	Peter Niers, notorious German bandit (date of birth unknown)
1993	František Jílek, Czech conductor (b. 1913)