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History Events on September 16

By  Tera Lindsey  16 Sep   237 Views

History Events on September 16

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Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council.

#Pope_Honorius_I

In 681

Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.

#Hurricane_Ivan

In 2004

Owain Glynd?r is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.

#Owain_Glynd?r

In 1400

Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.

#1982_Lebanon_War

In 1982

Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.

#Robert_College

In 1863

The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.

#Juan_Perón

In 1955

One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.

#One-Two-GO_Airlines_Flight_269

In 2007

World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.

#10th_Army_(Wehrmacht)

In 1943

In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory and a violent explosion ensues, killing two thirds of its inhabitants.

#Campo_Maior,_Portugal

In 1732

A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard.

#Washington_Navy_Yard_shooting

In 2013

A Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.

#Zulu-class_submarine

In 1955

American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.

#Siege_of_Savannah

In 1779

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.

#Hurricane_Esther

In 1961

James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.

#James_Francis_Edward_Stuart

In 1701

The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.

#Metropolitan_Opera_House_(Lincoln_Center)

In 1966

Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.

#Land_Run_of_1893

In 1893

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian-Kurdish forces.

#Siege_of_Kobanî

In 2014

World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.

#World_War_II

In 1940

Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.

#Papua_New_Guinea

In 1975

The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.

#Montreal_Protocol

In 1987

Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.

#Typhoon_Nancy_(1961)

In 1961

Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves this new country.

#Malaysia

In 1963

Cape Verde, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.

#Cape_Verde

In 1975

World War II: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.

#Japanese_occupation_of_Hong_Kong

In 1945

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.

#Black_Wednesday

In 1992

Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.

#Shavarsh_Karapetyan

In 1976

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 were killed.

#1978_Tabas_earthquake

In 1978

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.

#Dostyk

In 1990

World War I: The Siege of Przemy?l (present-day Poland) begins.

#World_War_I

In 1914

The Sugarhill Gang were formed and rappers delight was released

#The_Sugarhill_Gang

In 1979

American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.

#American_Revolutionary_War

In 1776

The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.

#Mikoyan_MiG-31

In 1975

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.

#Wall_Street_bombing

In 1920

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.

#Manuel_Noriega

In 1992

The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.

#1988-94_British_broadcasting_voice_restrictions

In 1994

Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.

In 2007

The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.

In 2005

Eight people escaped from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.

In 1979

King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict which became to be known as Black September.

In 1970

Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.

In 1961

The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.

In 1959

TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.

In 1956

The General Motors Corporation is founded.

In 1908

The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.

In 1880

With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.

In 1810

Pilgrims set sail from England on the Mayflower.

In 1620

Emperor Severus II is captured and imprisoned at Tres Tabernae. He is later executed (or forced to commit suicide) after Galerius unsuccessfully invades Italy.

In 307

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