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Events on the 16th of September in history

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16 Sep 0307 Emperor Severus II is captured and imprisoned at Tres Tabernae. He is later executed (or forced to commit suicide) after Galerius unsuccessfully invades Italy.
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16 Sep 1400 Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
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16 Sep 1575 King Johan Casimir of Palts promises military aid to hugenots
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16 Sep 1597 French troops chase away Albrecht of Austria
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16 Sep 1620 Pilgrims set sail from England on the Mayflower.
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16 Sep 1630 Mass village of Shawmut changes name to Boston
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16 Sep 1652 Spanish troops occupy Dunkerk
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16 Sep 1654 Russian troops occupy Smolensk on Poland
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16 Sep 1662 Flamsteed sees solar eclipse, 1st known astronomical observation
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16 Sep 1666 "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi becomes Islamiet
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16 Sep 1668 King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France
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16 Sep 1701 James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
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16 Sep 1702 Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne and Bavaria
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16 Sep 1729 Willem KH Friso installed as Viceroy of Groningen
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16 Sep 1747 French troops occupy Bergen on Zoom
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16 Sep 1776 American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
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16 Sep 1779 American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
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16 Sep 1782 Great Seal of US used for 1st time
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16 Sep 1795 British capture Cape Town South Africa
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16 Sep 1795 The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at the Battle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William V requested protection against revolutionary France's occupation of the Netherlands.
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16 Sep 1795 British capture Capetown
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16 Sep 1810 Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, which called for the end of Spanish rule Mexican Independence Day celebrates this event
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16 Sep 1810 With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.
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16 Sep 1810 Hidalgo begins Mexican revolt against Spain (National Day)
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16 Sep 1812 The Fire of Moscow begins shortly after midnight and destroys three quarters of the city days later.
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16 Sep 1812 Fire of Moscow
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16 Sep 1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes writes "Old Ironsides"
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16 Sep 1847 United Shakespeare Company buys his home in Stratford-upon-Avon
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16 Sep 1848 Slavery abolished in all French territories
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16 Sep 1857 Mexican constitution of force (fiercely attacked by Pope Pius IX)
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16 Sep 1857 Typesetting machine patent
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16 Sep 1858 1st overland mail for California
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16 Sep 1861 Battle of Princeton, West Virginia
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16 Sep 1861 British Post Office Savings Banks opens
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16 Sep 1862 Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md)
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16 Sep 1862 Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii (1891-93) marries John Owen Dominis
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16 Sep 1862 Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4000 federals at Munfordville, KY
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16 Sep 1863 Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
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16 Sep 1867 Ottawa Rough Riders and Senators play Canadian Football game
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16 Sep 1873 German troops leave France
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16 Sep 1880 The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the nation's oldest, continuously-independent college daily.
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16 Sep 1885 Puritan (US) beats Genesta (England) in 6th running of America's Cup
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16 Sep 1890 Newswriter George Whitney Calhoun names Green Bay team the Packers
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16 Sep 1892 Amsterdam swim club renamed "The Y"
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16 Sep 1893 Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
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16 Sep 1893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma opened to white settlement homesteaders
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16 Sep 1906 Kaarlo Nieminen wins 1st Finnish marathon
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16 Sep 1906 Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole
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16 Sep 1908 Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp
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16 Sep 1908 William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors in Janesville Wisc
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16 Sep 1908 The General Motors Corporation is founded.
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16 Sep 1908 General Motors founded by William C Durant
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16 Sep 1913 1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage
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16 Sep 1915 Czar Nicolas II adjourns 4th Duma
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16 Sep 1915 US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
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16 Sep 1919 Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant
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16 Sep 1919 The American Legion is incorporated.
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16 Sep 1919 American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress
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16 Sep 1920 Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30
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16 Sep 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.
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16 Sep 1922 42nd US Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W M Johnston (46 36 62 63 64)
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16 Sep 1922 Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia
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16 Sep 1924 Cardinal Jim Bottomley bats in 12 RBIs in 1 game
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16 Sep 1926 Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed
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16 Sep 1926 St. Louis Cardinals beat Phillies 23-3
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16 Sep 1927 Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for US Lawn Tennis Association title
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16 Sep 1928 Hurricane hits West Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee Florida; 3,000 die
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16 Sep 1928 The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
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16 Sep 1929 Police shoots at strikers at Maastricht, 2 killed
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16 Sep 1930 Phillies trailing 10-5, score 5 in 9th, then Pirates score 4 in top of 10th, so Phillies score 5 in bottom of 10th to win 15-14
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16 Sep 1931 Blimp is moored to Empire State Building (NYC)
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16 Sep 1931 St. Louis Cardinals repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies
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16 Sep 1932 30.8 cm rainfall at Westerly, Rhode Island (state record)
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16 Sep 1938 George E.T. Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH
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16 Sep 1939 53rd US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (60 810 64)
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16 Sep 1939 59th US Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats S Welby van Horn (64 62 64)
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16 Sep 1939 New York Yankees clinch their 11th and 4th successive pennant
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16 Sep 1939 Yanks clinch pennant #11
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16 Sep 1940 Dutch SS forms
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16 Sep 1940 FDR signs Selective Training and Service Act (1st peacetime draft)
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16 Sep 1940 Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot"
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16 Sep 1940 Luftwaffe attacks center of London
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16 Sep 1940 St. Louis Browns Johnny Lucadello is 2nd to HR from each side of plate
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16 Sep 1940 World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
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16 Sep 1940 Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of the House
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16 Sep 1941 German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine
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16 Sep 1941 Hitler orders for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavian be killed
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16 Sep 1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto
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16 Sep 1941 World War II: Concerned that Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, was about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
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16 Sep 1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled
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16 Sep 1943 Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny
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16 Sep 1943 World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy concludes when Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the German Tenth Army, orders his troops to withdraw from Salerno.
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16 Sep 1945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
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16 Sep 1945 World War II: The surrender of the Japanese troops in Hong Kong is accepted by Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.
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16 Sep 1947 Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, at least 1,930 killed.
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16 Sep 1947 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH
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16 Sep 1948 "Heaven on Earth" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 performances
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16 Sep 1948 "Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" closes at Century NYC after 12 performances
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16 Sep 1949 KABC TV channel 7 in Los Angeles, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
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16 Sep 1950 Cleveland Rams (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, beat Philadelphia 35-10)
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16 Sep 1950 Viet Minh-offensive against French bases in Vietnam
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16 Sep 1951 NL ump Frank Dascoli clears the Dogers bench ejecting 15 players
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16 Sep 1951 Betsy Rawls wins the US Women's Open Golf title
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16 Sep 1953 AL approves St Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles
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16 Sep 1954 CKLW TV channel 9 in Windsor, ON (CBC) begins broadcasting
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16 Sep 1955 Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt
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16 Sep 1955 The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
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16 Sep 1955 A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first submarine to launch a ballistic missile.
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16 Sep 1955 Bauer & Berra homer in the 9th beating Red Sox 5-4 taking over 1st
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16 Sep 1955 US Auto Club forms to oversee 4 major auto reacing categories
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16 Sep 1956 Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Clock Golf Open
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16 Sep 1957 Coup in Thailand (Premier Songgram deposed)
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16 Sep 1957 LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers
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16 Sep 1959 President De Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination
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16 Sep 1959 The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
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16 Sep 1960 Mil Brave Warren Spahn no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 4-0
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16 Sep 1960 Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
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16 Sep 1961 CDU loses West German election
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16 Sep 1961 WLKY TV channel 32 in Louisville, KY (ABC) begins broadcasting
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16 Sep 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.
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16 Sep 1961 Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
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16 Sep 1962 Brian Kilby wins marathon: (2:23:18.8)
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16 Sep 1962 Gerda Kroon runs European record 800 m in 2:02.8
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16 Sep 1962 Public TV channel 13 begins in New York City
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16 Sep 1962 Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open
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16 Sep 1963 WVAN TV channel 9 in Savannah, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting
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16 Sep 1963 Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves this new country.
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16 Sep 1963 "Outer Limits" premiers on TV
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16 Sep 1963 Malaysia formed from Malaya, Singapore, Br. N. Borneo & Sarawak
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16 Sep 1964 "Shindig" premieres on ABC-TV
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16 Sep 1964 "Shindig" premiers
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16 Sep 1965 Boston Red Sox Dave Morehead no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0
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16 Sep 1965 Sobibor trial opens in Hagen West Germany
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16 Sep 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.
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16 Sep 1966 Metropolitan Opera opens at NY's Lincoln Center
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16 Sep 1967 Anni Pede runs female world record marathon (3:07:26)
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16 Sep 1967 KPAZ TV channel 21 in Phoenix, AZ (IND) begins broadcasting
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16 Sep 1968 KLNI (now KADN) TV channel 15 in Lafayette, LA (IND) begins
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16 Sep 1968 Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in"
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16 Sep 1968 Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in"
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16 Sep 1970 Jordan King Hussein forms military government
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16 Sep 1970 King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule following the hijacking of four civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This results in the formation of the Black September Palestinian paramilitary unit.
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16 Sep 1971 West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with soviet President Brezhnev
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16 Sep 1971 6 Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses
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16 Sep 1972 Penny Marshall appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Fly Unfriendly Skies"
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16 Sep 1972 1st TV series about mixed marriage-Bridgit Loves Bernie
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16 Sep 1973 "Desert Song" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 15 performances
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16 Sep 1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open
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16 Sep 1973 Buff Bill OJ Simpson rushes 250 yards (2 TDs), beating NE Pats 31-13
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16 Sep 1974 Bob Dylan records Blood on the Tracks
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16 Sep 1974 President Ford announces conditional amnesty for US, Vietnam War deserters
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16 Sep 1974 US General Haig becomes NATO-supreme commander in Europe
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16 Sep 1974 BART begins regular transbay service
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16 Sep 1975 Rennie Stennett is 2nd to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game
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16 Sep 1975 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
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16 Sep 1975 The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.
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16 Sep 1975 The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
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16 Sep 1975 Pirates beat Cubs 22-0, Rennie Stennett is 3rd to go 7 for 7
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16 Sep 1976 Egypt President Sadat re-elected
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16 Sep 1976 Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Yerevan reservoir.
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16 Sep 1976 Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop
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16 Sep 1977 Ringo releases "Drowning in Sea of Love"
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16 Sep 1977 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premiers on TV
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16 Sep 1977 Ringo releases "Drowning in the Sea of Love"
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16 Sep 1978 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar Iran
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16 Sep 1978 Grateful Dead perform in Cairo Egypt
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16 Sep 1978 An earthquake measuring 7.5 to 7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people.
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16 Sep 1978 Yanks beat Red Sox for 6th time in 2 weeks, 3-2
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16 Sep 1979 23rd Ryder Cup: US, 17-11 at Greenbrier
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16 Sep 1979 Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin
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16 Sep 1979 Nancy Lopez / JoAnn Washam wins Portland- Ping Team Golf Championship
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16 Sep 1979 Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium
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16 Sep 1980 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the United Nations.
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16 Sep 1981 1st broadcast of "Miami Vice" on NBC-TV
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16 Sep 1982 1982 Lebanon war: the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.
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16 Sep 1982 Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins
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16 Sep 1983 Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen
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16 Sep 1984 "Miami Vice" premieres
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16 Sep 1984 Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation
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16 Sep 1984 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
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16 Sep 1984 "Miami Vice" premiers
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16 Sep 1986 Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed
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16 Sep 1987 The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
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16 Sep 1987 NASA launches space vehicle S-209
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16 Sep 1987 NY's WNET-TV channel 13 begins round the clock broadcasting
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16 Sep 1988 Cin Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats Dodgers, 1-0
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16 Sep 1988 Fish leaves rock group Marillion
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16 Sep 1988 Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series
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16 Sep 1988 Tom Browning of Cincinnati Reds pitches a perfect game against LA Dodgers (1-0)
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16 Sep 1989 Debbye Turner (Mont), 23, crowned 63rd Miss America 1990
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16 Sep 1989 Singer Natalie Cole marries record producer Andre Fisher
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16 Sep 1990 101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle, New York
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16 Sep 1990 42nd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Murphy Brown, Peter Falk and Patricia Wettig
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16 Sep 1990 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic
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16 Sep 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.
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16 Sep 1990 Dennis Quaid & Meg Ryan wed
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16 Sep 1990 Emmy Awards
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16 Sep 1990 Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George Bush
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16 Sep 1990 Pirate Radio New York International begins transmissions on WWCR
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16 Sep 1991 Norm Charlton suspended for 7 days for intentionally hitting Steve Scioscia with a pitch
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16 Sep 1991 US trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins
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16 Sep 1992 "Les Miserables, " opens at Nuevo Apolo, Madrid
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16 Sep 1992 900 die in flood in Pakistan
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16 Sep 1992 FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service
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16 Sep 1992 Vanna White suffers a miscarriage
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16 Sep 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.
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16 Sep 1992 Black Wednesday: The pound is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
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16 Sep 1993 Minn Twins Dave Winfield, is 19th to get 3,000 hits
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16 Sep 1993 Singer Karen Akers (48) weds businessman Kevin Powers (41)
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16 Sep 1994 Fire Department puts out smokey electrical fire in White House
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16 Sep 1994 The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.
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16 Sep 1995 Greg Maddux of Braves sets record of 17 consecutive road victory
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16 Sep 1995 Shawntel Smith (Okla), 24, crowned 69th Miss America 1996
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16 Sep 1995 Stephen Hawkins (53) wets Elaine Mason
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16 Sep 1996 1st one-day international in Canada, India vs. Pakistan at Toronto
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16 Sep 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Panama City Florida on WTBB 97.7 FM
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16 Sep 1996 Paul Molitor of Twins is 21st player to reach 3,000 hits
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16 Sep 1996 Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), launches into space
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16 Sep 1997 ABL MVP Nikki McCray signs with WNBA
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16 Sep 1997 Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs temporary CEO
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16 Sep 1997 Mark McGwire signs with the St. Louis Cardinals for $26M
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16 Sep 2005 The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
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16 Sep 2007 One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
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16 Sep 2007 Mercenaries working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad; all criminal charges against them are later dismissed, however they are later tried and convicted of the crime.
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16 Sep 2013 A gunman kills twelve people at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
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16 Sep 2014 The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobane offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
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