Today in History - History - September 16th

1941Hitler orders for every dead German 100 Yugoslavians to be killed

1940Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot"

1974Bob Dylan records Blood on the Tracks

1940FDR signs Selective Training & Service Act (1st peacetime draft)

1973Buff Bill OJ Simpson rushes 250 yards (2 TDs), beating NE Pats 31-13

1955Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt

2000Sammy Sosa becomes the second player to hit 50 or more home runs in three consecutive years, joining Mark McGwire

1979Nancy Lopez/JoAnn Washam wins Portland- Ping Team Golf Championship

1959French President Charles de Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination

1983Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen

1959Tim Raines, Sanford Florida, American baseball player (Montreal Expos)

1891Karl Dönitz, German naval leader (d. 1980)

1948Rosemary Casals, San Francisco California, tennis doubles (5X Wimbledon)

1956David Copperfield, [Kotkin], Metuchen, New Jersey, magician

1934Elgin Baylor, Washington D.C., NBA star (1958-59 Rookie of Year-Lakers)

1875James Cash Penney, Hamilton Missouri, department store founder (J C Penney), (d. 1971)

2000Jeopardy game show winner Ken Jennings (26) weds Mindy Boam

1995Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking (53) weds nurse Elaine Mason

1989Tennis player Ivan Lendl (29) weds Samantha Frankel in Greenwich, Connecticut

1991Country singer Willie Nelson (58) weds Annie D'Angelo in Nashville, Tennessee

2009Mary Travers, American singer (Peter, Paul, and Mary) (b. 1936)

1824Louis XVIII SX, earl of Province/king of France (1814-24), dies