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History on the 16th of September

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16 Sep 1224 RELIGIOUS During an extended period of prayer and fasting, St. Francis of Assisi, 42, received the stigmata (crucifixion scars of Christ) on Mount Alvernia, in Italy. Francis, the founder of the Franciscans in 1209, has been called by some the greatest of all the Christian saints.
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16 Sep 1620 RELIGIOUS The "Mayflower" set sail from Plymouth, England, bound for the New World. On board were 48 crew members and 101 colonists (including 35 Separatists from Leiden, Holland, known afterward as the Pilgrims). During the three-month voyage, two passengers died and two babies were born.
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16 Sep 1840 RELIGIOUS Scottish pastor Robert Murray McCheyne wrote in a letter: 'Grace fills us with very different feelings from the possession of anything else. If you have tasted the grace of the Gospel, the irresistible longing of your hearts will be, "Oh, that all the world might taste its regenerating waters."'
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16 Sep 1906 RELIGIOUS Birth of J.B. Phillips, Anglican clergyman. Ordained in 1930, he wrote "Your God is Too Small" (1951), but is better remembered for his biblical paraphrase, "The New Testament in Modern English," first published in 1958.
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16 Sep 1914 WW2 All German troops in the Bismarck Islands surrendered to the Australians. 
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16 Sep 1915 WW2 Ivan Bagramyan volunteered for the Russian Army. 
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16 Sep 1918 WW2 The United States Navy denied Joseph Rochefort's request to transfer to the Naval Reserve Flying Corps. 
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16 Sep 1921 WW2 The newspaper New York Times announced that US politician Franklin Roosevelt was suffering from poliomyelitis. 
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16 Sep 1922 WW2 In the absence of Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon, certain British Cabinet ministers issued a communiqué threatening the Ottoman Empire with a declaration of war by Britain and the Dominions (who, in fact, rejected becoming involved) on the grounds that the Ottoman Empire had violated the Treaty of Sèvres. 
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16 Sep 1931 WW2 The Invergordon Mutiny crisis passed when the British Admiralty promised to revise the proposed cuts. The mutiny caused such alarm on the exchange markets that the government was provoked into taking sterling off the gold standard. 
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16 Sep 1934 WW2 Lutherans protested against the Nazi Party in Munich, Germany. 
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16 Sep 1935 WW2 Remy Van Lierde joined the Belgian Air Force. 
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16 Sep 1936 WW2 The Spanish Nationalists captured Ronda, Spain. 
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16 Sep 1936 WW2 Charles Hippolyte Noguès was made the Resident-General of French Morocco, replacing Marcel Peyrouton. 
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16 Sep 1938 WW2 Japanese troops captured the city of Shang, Hubei Province, China. 
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16 Sep 1938 WW2 The forerunner of the modern day Volkswagen car company was renamed to Volkswagenwerk GmbH. 
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16 Sep 1938 WW2 Neville Chamberlain departed Germany and returned to London, England, United Kingdom. In the evening, he held a cabinet meeting to discuss the German demands on Czechoslovakia. 
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16 Sep 1939 WW2 In the first German submarine attack on an Atlantic convoy the merchantman Aviemore was sunk off Land's End, England, United Kingdom. 
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16 Sep 1939 WW2 U-27 attacked British trawler Rudyard Kipling 190 kilometers (120 miles or 100 nautical miles) west of Ireland at 0353 hours. The crew of U-27 boarded Rudyard Kipling and destroyed the ship with scuttling charges. U-27 rescued the survivors, gave them food and warm clothing, and sent them off in lifeboats. 
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16 Sep 1939 WW2 Polish troops counterattacked, destroying 22 tanks of Leibstandarte SS "Adolf Hitler" regiment. Elsewhere in Poland, German troops captured Brest-Litovsk. In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov proposed that the Soviet Union would enter the war with the reason of protection of Ukrainians and Byelorussians; Germany complained that it singled out Germany as the lone aggressor. 
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16 Sep 1939 WW2 Polish general Józef Kustron was killed in the village of Ulazow, Poland; he was the second general-rank officer to be killed in action during the European War. 
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16 Sep 1940 WW2 US Congress passed the Selective Training and Service Act. 
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16 Sep 1940 WW2 Battleship Bismarck entered the Kiel Canal. 
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16 Sep 1940 WW2 Italian troops of the 1st Blackshirt Division "23 Marzo" captured Sidi Barrani, Egypt and stopped the advance due to supply problems. This would prove to be the farthest the Italians would go. 
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16 Sep 1940 WW2 British bombers attacked German invasion barges in French ports along the English Channel, interrupting an amphibious training exercise and causing many casualties. 
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16 Sep 1940 WW2 German submarine U-99 sank Norwegian ship Lotos north of Ireland at 0241 hours; the entire crew of 17 survived in two lifeboats. 
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16 Sep 1940 WW2 German bombers damaged British troop ship Aska in the Irish Sea, kill 11 British crew and 19 French soldiers. 
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16 Sep 1940 WW2 French ship Poitiers, sailing from Libreville, French Equatorial Africa to Dakar, was intercepted by British cruiser HMS Cumberland. After taking the entire crew aboard, HMS Cumberland sank Poitiers by gunfire. 
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16 Sep 1940 WW2 The presence of German troops in Finland, despite the fact that they were ultimately destined for Norway, alarmed the Soviet Union. 
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16 Sep 1940 WW2 Communist Chinese New 4th Army captured Jiangyan (now a district of Taizhou), Jiangsu Province, China. 
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16 Sep 1940 WW2 At 0730 hours, more than 100 German Bf 109 fighters made a raid on Kent, England, United Kingdom to draw British fighters, which never rose to meet them. Overnight, German bombers attacked London, Liverpool, Manchester, Coventry, Birmingham, and Bristol. 
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16 Sep 1941 WW2 5 PBM Mariner aircraft and 1 PBY Catalina aircraft received radar to help these American aircraft conduct their neutrality patrols. 
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16 Sep 1941 WW2 The German XXXXI Armeekorps (mot) successfully cut off the Soviet 8th Army in the Oranienbaum Pocket southwest of Leningrad, Russia after two days of fighting. 
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16 Sep 1941 WW2 German submarine U-98 sank British ship Jedmoor of Allied convoy SC-42 100 miles northwest of Isle of Lewis, Scotland, United Kingdom at 2316 hours; 31 were killed, 5 survived. 
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16 Sep 1941 WW2 Italian submarine Smeraldo sank in the Mediterranean Sea to unknown cause, killing all 45 aboard. 
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16 Sep 1941 WW2 Without authorization, Hans-Joachim Marseille flew over an Australian airfield in Libya, amidst anti-aircraft fire, to deliver a message that pilot Lieutenant Pat Byers, whom he shot down two days prior, was being treated at a German hospital in Libya. 
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16 Sep 1941 WW2 German Generals Guderian and Kleist's Panzergruppen linked up east of Kiev, Ukraine, encircling 5 Soviet Armies. 
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16 Sep 1941 WW2 German troops massacred Jews en masse in Vinnitsa, Ukraine. 
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16 Sep 1941 WW2 Romanian troops captured the heights northwest of Gross-Liebenthal district of Odessa, Ukraine. 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 British destroyer HMS Impulsive (escorting Allied convoy PQ-18) sank U-457 with depth charges 200 miels northeast of Murmansk, Russia, killing all 45 aboard. Later in the day, some of the warships escorting PQ-18 transferred to convoy sailing in the opposite direction QP-14. 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 Jürgen Stroop was promoted to the rank of SS-Brigadeführer. 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 USS S-28 departed Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska for her third war patrol. 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 US bombers from the newly-completed airfield at Adak, Aleutian Islands attacked Japanese positions on Kiska, damaging Japanese transport Nojima Maru at 0437 hours. 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 German submarine U-558 sank US ship Commercial Trader 75 miles east of Trinidad at 1100 hours; 10 were killed, 28 survived. British tanker F. J. Wolfe and British ship Empire Soldier, members of Allied convoy ON-127, collided 25 miles east of St. John's, Newfoundland; Empire Soldier would sink from damages sustained in this collision. At 1200 hours, U-165 attacked Allied convoy SQ-36 at the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River 10 miles northwest of Cap-Chat, Canada, sinking Greek ship Joannis, damaging British ship Essex Lance (1 was killed), and damaging British ship Pan York. 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 At 1125 hours, a US B-24 Liberator bomber based in Ascension Island spotted the 4 Axis submarines rescuing survivors of British troopship Laconia; despite the crew's observation of red cross flags, US Captain Robert Richardson III ordered the bomber to attack the submarines; the attack commenced at 1232 hours, and the submarines were forced to abandon the lifeboats they were towing and dive under the surface. 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 US B-17 Flying Fortress bombers attacked Rabaul, New Britain, causing little damage. 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 Australian troops pulled back from the Ioribaiwa Ridge along the Kokoda Track in Australian Papua, 25 miles north of Port Moresby in preparation for a counterattack. 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 USAAF 57th Fighter Group, flying P-40 fighters, began arriving at the Landing Ground 174 airfield east of El Alamein, Egypt. 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 369 British bombers attacked the Ruhr industrial region of Germany, damaging buildings in Essen (damaging a Krupp factory in Essen; 47 civilians killed), Bochum, Wuppertal, Heme, and Cochem; 39 bombers were lost during this night. 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 Barbers Point Naval Air Station: Permanent Officer-of-the-Day watch established 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 Japanese submarine I-29 sank British ship Ocean Honour in the mouth of the Gulf of Aden; 20 were killed, 33 survived. 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 Eduard Neumann informed Hans-Joachim Marseille that he had submitted the paperwork to promote him to the rank of Hauptmann. Later in the day, Erwin Rommel personally congratulated Marseille over the phone for having become the youngest Luftwaffe Hauptmann; Rommel also invited him to join him for dinner. 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 The Soviet NKVD rifle battalion stationed on Mamayev Kurgan hill in Stalingrad, Russia continued to fight off German attempts to take this high point. 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 German 502nd Tank Battalion, stationed near Leningrad, Russia, received the first batch of Tiger I tanks. 
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16 Sep 1942 WW2 The United States Marine Corps established the 3rd Marine Division at Camp Elliott, California, United States. 
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16 Sep 1943 WW2 USS S-28 transited Mushiru Kaikyo in the Kurile Islands. 
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16 Sep 1943 WW2 Leros Island in the Aegean Sea was captured by British troops. 
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16 Sep 1943 WW2 Yugoslavian partisans captured Split, Dalmatia, Yugoslavia. 
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16 Sep 1943 WW2 Soviet naval infantry captured Novorossiysk, Russia. 
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16 Sep 1943 WW2 Otto Skorzeny was awarded the Gold Flying Badge by Hermann Göring at Wolf's Lair, East Prussia, Germany. Upon receiving the award, he requested the Knight's Cross to be awarded to his men Captain Gerlach and Lieutenant Meyer. 
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16 Sep 1943 WW2 Adolf Hitler, Otto Skorzeny, Ambassador Hewel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Hitler's secretaries Fräulein Wolf and Frau Traudl Jung had midnight tea between 0000 and 0100 hours. Hitler said during tea that "Germany must be cleaned up after the war. We will draw our coming men from the fighting soldiers, but traitors must be rooted out now. Don't forget how Clemenceau dealt with the enemy within in 1914. he ruthlessly rounded them up and had them shot, thereby saving France. We must get rid of deserters and mutineers behind the front. Traitors always work on the same lines - to let the enemy in by the back door." 
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16 Sep 1943 WW2 Minesweeper USS Armada was transferred to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease Act. 
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16 Sep 1943 WW2 Gregory Boyington led 24 Corsair fighters of US Marine Corps squadron VMF-214 from Banika, Russell Islands to join 80 other aircraft of other squadrons to attack Ballale fighter base southeast of Bougainville island. 40 A6M fighters rose to defend the base. The Americans were credited with 17 Japanese aircraft shot down and 9 probables (VMF-214 alone was awarded 11 (5 of which were Boyington's) and 8, respectively), but lost pilot Bob Ewing in the action. Post-war Japanese records would reveal that only 6 aircraft were shot down in battle that day, with a further 1 aircraft written off due to heavy damage. 
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16 Sep 1943 WW2 Repair ship Akashi performed repair work for cable layer Osei Maru at Truk, Caroline Islands. 
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16 Sep 1943 WW2 Julius Ritter, aide to the Labor Minister Fritz Sauckel, was shot in Paris, France; 50 French would be executed in reprisal. 
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16 Sep 1943 WW2 USS Pollack arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, ending her seventh war patrol. 
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16 Sep 1943 WW2 Bernard Montgomery's British 5th Infantry Division reached Sapri, less than 100 kilometers from Salerno, Italy. Heinrich von Vietinghoff recommended Albert Kesselring to break off the offensive in the Salerno area, fall back, and form a defensive line, but meanwhile the German troops attempted to attack positions held by troops of British X Corps near Salerno, making little progress. At Salerno, about 600 men of the British X Corps mutinied when informed that they were to be assigned to new units as replacements. To the north, after sundown, British 10th Parachute Battalion and 156th Parachute Battalion captured Gioia. 
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16 Sep 1943 WW2 The keel of submarine Chub was laid down by the Electric Boat Company in Groton, Connecticut, United States. 
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16 Sep 1944 WW2 British troops landed unopposed on the island of Kythera in the Peloponnese peninsula in Greece. 
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16 Sep 1944 WW2 A speech by Goebbels called for resistance by all Germans with utmost fanaticism. 
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16 Sep 1944 WW2 US 803rd Tank Destroyer Battalion captured Simpelveld in the Netherlands. 
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16 Sep 1944 WW2 Roza Shanina was awarded the Order of Glory 2nd Class. 
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16 Sep 1944 WW2 Soviet troops entered Sofia, Bulgaria. 
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16 Sep 1944 WW2 Anglo-Indian troops began crossing the Manipur River in India toward Burma. 
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16 Sep 1944 WW2 Saint Paul was launched at Quincy, Massachusetts, United States, sponsored by the wife of John J. McDonough. 
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16 Sep 1944 WW2 Soviet troops, Bulgarian troops, and Yugoslavian partisans defeated Chetnik fighters and Serbian Frontier Guards and captured Vlasotince, Yugoslavia. 
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16 Sep 1945 WW2 The US coastal minesweepers YMS-98 and YMS-341 were sunk off Okinawa, Japan during a typhoon. 
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16 Sep 1945 WW2 Four surviving Japanese aircraft (three A6M and one Ki-46) at Rabaul, New Britain were flown to the Australian airfield at Jacquinot Bay in southeastern New Britain. 
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16 Sep 1945 WW2 In Shanghai, China, after being overworked, recovering from malaria (and at times overdosing on Atabrine), and taking too much Benzedrine and sleeping pills to help him work and rest, Milton Miles began showing signs of psychosis. On this date, he met with newly arrived Thomas Kinkaid in Shanghai, China; Kinkaid described Miles as suffering from "war shock". 
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16 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Menhaden arrived at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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16 Sep 1945 WW2 Japanese troops surrendered in Hong Kong. 
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16 Sep 1945 WW2 USS Sterlet arrived at San Diego, California, United States. 
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16 Sep 1976 RELIGIOUS In Minneapolis, the 65th Triennial General Convention of the Episcopal Church officially approved ordination of women to the priesthood.
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