September 16

September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years). There are 106 days remaining.

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Events

• 1597 – Yi Sun-sin led 12 ships of the Korean fleet against an invasion by 133 Japanese ships. The Koreans sank 31 enemy ships and forced a Japanese retreat.
• 1701 – Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, more commonly referred to as the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant of the thrones of Scotland and England
• 1776 – Battle of Harlem Heights
• 1795 – United Kingdom conquers Cape Town, South Africa
• 1810 – With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo proclaims Mexico's independence from Spain
• 1829 – Russo-Turkish War, 1828–29 ends with the signing of the Treaty of Adrianople (Edirne)
• 1893 – Oklahoma Land Race, settlers race for prime land in the Cherokee Strip.
• 1901 – Alturas, California incorporated as the only city in Modoc County
• 1908 – General Motors founded
• 1919 – American Legion incorporated
• 1940 – United States government begins Selective Service Act, instituting the draft
• 1940  – Sam Rayburn elected Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
• 1941 – Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia was about to align his petroleum-rich country with Germany during World War II, the United Kingdom and the USSR occupied Iran and forced him to resign in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
• 1956 – Play-Doh is introduced to the world
• 1963 – Malaysia formed from Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo and Sarawak
• 1975 – Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia
• 1976 – Tina Barrett, singer (S Club 7)
• 1981 – Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Thomas Hearns by a knockout in round 14 in Las Vegas to unify boxing's world Welterweight championship.
• 1982 – Sabra and Shatila massacre
• 1987 – The Montreal Protocol was signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
• 1991 – Manuel Noriega trial begins in the United States
• 1992 – Black Wednesday – the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the Deutschmark.
• 2000 – Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze is last seen alive, and the commemoration date of his death.
• 2004 – Hurricane Ivan landfalls near Gulf Shores, Alabama, becoming the third costliest hurricane to strike the United States.

Births

• 1745 – Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal, (d. 1813)
• 1823 – Francis Parkman, author (d. 1893)
• 1875 – James C. Penney, department store founder (d. 1971)
• 1883 – T. E. Hulme, English writer (d. 1917)
• 1886 – Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (d. 1966)
• 1887 – Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (d. 1979)
• 1893 – Alexander Korda, film director (d. 1956)
• 1914 – Allen Funt, radio & television personality (d. 1999)
• 1916 – M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian carnatic vocalist
• 1923 – Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first Prime Minister (1959-1990)
• 1924 – Lauren Bacall, actress
• 1925 – B. B. King, musician
• 1925  – Charlie Byrd, jazz musician (d. 1999)
• 1925  – Charles J. Haughey, former Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland
• 1927 – Peter Falk, actor, best known for Columbo
• 1934 – Elgin Baylor, National Basketball Association star
• 1934  – George Chakiris, actor
• 1935 – Carl Andre, artist
• 1935  – Bob Kiley
• 1939 – Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet, writer and painter
• 1943 – James Alan McPherson, Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction
• 1947 – Russ Abbott, comedian
• 1949 – Ed Begley, Jr., actor
• 1950 – Loyd Grossman, TV presenter
• 1950  – Mickey Rourke, actor
• 1955 – Janet Ellis, former Blue Peter presenter
• 1955  – Yolandita Monge, Puerto Rican singer of international fame
• 1955  – Robin Yount, baseball player
• 1956 – David Copperfield, magician
• 1958 – Orel Hershiser, baseball pitcher
• 1958  – Jennifer Tilly, actress
• 1958  – Barbara Lora, Mexican journalist and kendoka
• 1960 – John Franco, baseball relief pitcher
• 1963 – Richard Marx, singer
• 1964 – Molly Shannon, Saturday Night Live star
• 1968 – Marc Anthony, singer
• 1975 – Shannon Noll, Australian singer and actor
• 1984 – Katie Melua, Georgian singer
• 1992 – J Nawrat, English actress

Deaths

• 1087 – Pope Victor III
• 1345 – John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)
• 1380 – King Charles V of France (b. 1338)
• 1672 – Anne Bradstreet, American colonial poet
• 1701 – James II of England and VII of Scotland
• 1736 – Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist
• 1824 – Louis XVIII of France, King of France
• 1945 – John McCormack, Irish tenor
• 1977 – Marc Bolan (real name Marc Feld), rock singer
• 1977 – Maria Callas, opera singer
• 1980 – Jean Piaget, psychologist
• 1993 – Rok Petrovič, Slovenian alpine skier
• 1996 – McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor
• 2000 – Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (born 1969).
• 2001 – Samuel A. Arkoff, film producer
• 2003 – Erich Hallhuber, Bavarian actor
• 2003  – Sheb Wooley, actor, singer

Holiday and observances

• Mexico – Independence Day
• In ancient Greece, the third day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, when the initiates walked to the sea at Phaleron and purified themselves in the water.

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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