Historical Events on September 16

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• 1400 Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers
• 1575 King Johan Casimir of Palts promises military aid to the Huguenots
• 1597 Albert VII Archduke of Austria's Spanish forces lose control of the city of Amiens to French King Henry VI

• 1630 Massachusetts village of Shawmut changes its name to Boston
• 1652 Spanish troops occupy Dunkirk
• 1654 Russian troops occupy Smolensk in Poland
• 1666 "Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi becomes Islamiet
• 1668 Polish King John II Casimir Vasa resigns and goes to France the following year

• 1702 Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne & Bavaria
• 1729 William IV Prince of Orange installed as Stadtholder of Groningen
• 1747 French troops occupy Bergen on Zoom
• 1782 Great Seal of the United States of America used for the first time
• 1795 British capture Capetown, South Africa, from the Dutch

• 1810 Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, calling for the end of Spanish rule (Mexican Independence Day)
• 1830 Oliver Wendell Holmes writes poem "Old Ironsides" as tribute to the 18th-century USS Constitution

• 1848 Slavery abolished in all French territories
• 1857 Mexican constitution of force (fiercely attacked by Pope Pius IX)
• 1858 1st overland mail for California

• 1861 British Post Office Savings Banks opens
• 1862 Confederate General Braxton Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, Kentucky
• 1863 Robert College of Istanbul, Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
• 1864 US Civil War: Battle of Coggin's Point, Virginia (Hampton-Rosser Cattle Raid)
• 1867 Ottawa Rough Riders & Senators play Canadian Football game
• 1869 Golf's 1st recorded hole-in-one by Tom Morris at Prestwick's 8th hole, Scotland
• 1873 German troops leave France
• 1885 5th America's Cup: Puritan (NY Yacht Club) beats Genesta (Royal Yacht Squadron, Isle of Wight, UK) by 1:38 for 2-0 series win
• 1892 Amsterdam swimming club renamed "The Y"
• 1893 Cherokee Strip, Oklahoma, opens white settlement homesteaders

• 1901 Alturas, California, is incorporated as the only city in Modoc County

• 1906 Kaarlo Nieminen wins 1st Finnish marathon
• 1908 Carriage-maker, William C. Durant, founds General Motors in Flint, Michigan
• 1913 Thousands of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage

• 1915 US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years
• 1919 American Legion incorporated by an act of US Congress
• 1919 Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant

• 1922 Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia

• 1926 -22] Hurricane in Florida & Alabama, kills 372
• 1926 Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed
• 1926 Philip Dunning & George Abbott's play "Broadway" premieres in NYC
• 1926 St Louis Cards beat Phillies 23-3
• 1928 San Felipe Segundo/Okeechobee hurricane crosses through the Bahamas as a category 4 storm, killing 18, as it travels from Puerto Rico to Florida
• 1929 Police shoot at strikers in Maastricht, 2 killed
• 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
• 1931 Blimp is moored to Empire State Building (NYC)
• 1931 St Louis Cards repeat as NL champions with a 6-3 win over Phillies
• 1932 30.8 cm rainfall at Westerly, Rhode Island (state record)
• 1932 British actress Peg Entwistle (24) commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" in the "Hollywoodland" (now "Hollywood") sign in Los Angeles, California [1]

• 1938 British racing driver George Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH
• 1939 NY Yankees clinch their 11th & 4th successive pennant

• 1940 Luftwaffe attacks central London
• 1940 Samuel Rayburn of Texas elected speaker of US House of Representatives
• 1940 St Louis Browns Johnny Lucadello is 2nd to HR from each side of plate

• 1941 German armoured troops surround Kyiv, Ukraine
• 1941 Jews of Vilna, Poland, confined to the Ghetto
• 1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, repelled
• 1943 Montgomery's 8th army contacts invasion - arm forces at Salerno
• 1943 Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquers Romny, Northern Ukraine
• 1945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55") off Okinawa (record low)
• 1947 John Cobb sets world auto speed record at 394.2 MPH
• 1947 Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, killing at least 1,930
• 1949 KABC TV channel 7 in Los Angeles, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1950 Cleveland Browns (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, beat Philadelphia 35-10)
• 1950 Viet Minh offensive against French bases in Vietnam
• 1951 US National League umpire Frank Dascoli clears the Dodgers bench, ejecting 15 players

• 1953 AL approves St Louis Browns move to become Baltimore Orioles
• 1954 CKLW TV channel 9 in Windsor, ON (CBC) begins broadcasting
• 1955 Bauer & Berra homer in 9th beating Red Sox 5-4 taking over 1st
• 1955 US Auto Club forms to oversee four major auto racing categories
• 1955 Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt
• 1957 Coup in Thailand deposes Premier Songgram
• 1957 LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers

• 1960 Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98
• 1960 Milwaukee Braves' future HOF pitcher Warren Spahn no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 4-0 at County Stadium
• 1961 CDU loses West German election
• 1961 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1961 WLKY TV channel 32 in Louisville, Kentucky (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1962 Brian Kilby wins marathon: (2:23:18.8)
• 1962 Gerda Kroon runs European record 800 m in 2:02.8
• 1962 Public TV channel 13 begins in NYC
• 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1963 "The Outer Limits" premieres on ABC-TV

• 1963 WVAN TV channel 9 in Savannah, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1964 "Shindig" premieres on ABC-TV
• 1965 Boston Red Sox Dave Morehead no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0

• 1965 Sobibor trial opens in Hagen, West Germany

• 1967 Anni Pede runs female world record marathon (3:07:26)
• 1967 KPAZ TV channel 21 in Phoenix, AZ (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1968 KLNI (now KADN) TV channel 15 in Lafayette, LA (IND) begins

• 1970 King Hussein of Jordan forms military government
• 1971 6 Ku Klux Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses
• 1971 A number of Unionists resign over the proposed tripartite talks involving Northern Ireland, the UK, and the Republic of Ireland

• 1972 1st TV series about mixed marriage, "Bridget Loves Bernie" premieres

• 1974 Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) begins regular rail service crossing under the San Francisco Bay, through the Transbay Tube

• 1975 MLB Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Rennie Stennett is second to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning MLB game in a 22-0 rout of Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field in Chicago
• 1975 Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day)
• 1975 The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
• 1976 American Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop
• 1976 Egyptian president Sadat re-elected
• 1976 Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
• 1977 90 minute pilot of "Logan's Run" premieres on TV

• 1977 Seattle beats Royals, 4-1, to end KC's winning streak at 16 games
• 1978 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar, Iran

• 1978 Grateful Dead perform in Cairo, Egypt
• 1978 New York Yankees beat Boston Red Sox, 3-2; at Yankee Stadium; Blue Bombers 6th win over arch rivals in 2 weeks
• 1979 Catfish Hunter Day at Yankee Stadium
• 1979 Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin
• 1979 KC's Willie Wilson hits 5th inside-the-park HR (most since 1925)
• 1979 Russian Bolshoi Ballet dancers Leonid & Valentina Kozlov defect to US in Los Angeles, California
• 1979 The families of Peter Strelzyk and Gunter Wetzel arrive in West Germany from Communist East Germany in a hot air balloon
• 1979 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1982 Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins

• 1986 Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed
• 1987 Calif's Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game
• 1987 New York City's WNET-TV channel 13 begins round clock broadcasting

• 1987 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
• 1988 Cincinnati Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats LA Dodgers, 1-0
• 1988 Fish leaves rock group Marillion
• 1988 Javed Miandad completes 211, his 5th Test Cricket double, v Australia
• 1988 Jury awards Valerie Harper $1.6 M in dispute over TV series

• 1990 42nd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Murphy Brown, Peter Falk & Patricia Wettig win

• 1990 Pirate Radio NY International begins transmissions on WWCR
• 1991 Atlanta's Otis Nixon suspended for rest of 1991 due to cocaine
• 1991 Norm Charlton suspended for 7 days for intentionally hitting Steve Scioscia with a pitch

• 1992 "Black Wednesday" UK government is forced to withdraw the pound sterling from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism after unable keep it above agreed lowest limit
• 1992 900 die in flood in Pakistan
• 1992 FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service

• 1994 Fire Department puts out smokey electrical fire in the White House

• 1996 1st one-day international in Canada, India v Pakistan at Toronto

• 1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Panama City, Florida on WTBB 97.7 FM

• 1996 NASA launches Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17)
• 1997 ABL MVP Nikki McCray signs with WNBA

• 1999 14.8 inches (37.6 cm) rainfall from Hurricane Floyd at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (state record)
• 1999 1st ever season of "Big Brother" reality show begins on the Veronica channel in The Netherlands

• 2005 Camorra boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples.

• 2007 One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
• 2008 Rentrer en soi announces that they would be breaking up.

• 2012 14 people are killed and 7 wounded by a roadside bomb Jandol, Turkey
• 2012 8 female civilians are killed by a NATO airstrike in Laghman, Afghanistan
• 2012 8 police officers are killed by a roadside bombing by Kurdistan Workers' Party militants in Turkey
• 2012 Anti-Japanese protesters set fire to Panasonic plant in Qingdao, China
• 2012 Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel, seeks a court order to resolve a week long teachers strike
• 2012 NHL locks out its players after the expiry of the collective bargaining agreement
• 2013 12 people are killed after a gunman opens fire at a naval yard in Washington, D.C.
• 2013 21 people are killed by Hurricane Ingrid in Mexico

• 2015 700 million malaria cases prevented in Africa since 2000 in report by University of Oxford in "Nature" journal
• 2015 8.3 magnitude quake hits off coast of Illapel, Chile killing 11 and prompting evacuation of 1 million
• 2015 Military coup in Burkina Faso, President Michel Kafando and other officials seized by presidential guards
• 2015 Oil tanker explosion kills 170 in Maridi, South Sudan
• 2015 Report 3 million people die each year of air pollution, more than malaria and HIV/Aids combined published in "Nature" journal

• 2016 Chris Sharma free solos Alasha in Mallorca, Spain, the world's first 9b (5.15b) deep-water solo route
• 2017 New Zealand All Blacks rugby union team hands South Africa their biggest test match defeat in history; beat Springboks, 57-0 in Rugby Championship round in Albany, NZ

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