Notable Historical Events on September 16th
September 16th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1400 |
Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers. |
1575 |
King Johan Casimir of Palts promises military aid to hugenots |
1597 |
French troops chase away Albrecht of Austria |
1630 |
Mass village of Shawmut changes name to Boston |
1652 |
Spanish troops occupy Dunkirk |
1654 |
Russian troops occupy Smolensk on Poland |
1666 |
"Messiah" Sjabtai Tswi becomes Islamiet |
1668 |
King John II Casimir of Poland resigns, flees to France |
1701 |
James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland. |
1702 |
Emperor Leopold I declares war on France, Cologne & Bavaria |
1729 |
Willem KH Friso installed as viceroy of Groningen |
1747 |
French troops occupy Bergen on Zoom |
1782 |
Great Seal of US used for 1st time |
1795 |
British capture Capetown South Africa |
1810 |
Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, which called for the end of Spanish rule Mexican Independence Day celebrates this event |
1812 |
Fire of Moscow |
1830 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes writes "Old Ironsides" |
1847 |
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust buys bard's birthplace in Stratford-upon-Avon |
1848 |
Slavery abolished in all French territories |
1857 |
Mexican constitution of force (fiercely attacked by Pope Pius IX) |
1858 |
1st overland mail for California |
1859 |
Lake Nyasa, which forms Malawi's boundary with Tanzania & Mozambique discovered by British explorer David Livingstone |
1861 |
Battle of Princeton WV |
1861 |
British Post Office Savings Banks opens |
1862 |
Gen Bragg's army surrounds 4,000 federals at Munfordville, KY |
1863 |
Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist. |
1864 |
Battle of Coggin's Point, Virginia (Hampton-Rosser Cattle Raid) |
1867 |
Ottawa Rough Riders & Senators play Canadian Football game |
1873 |
German troops leave France |
1885 |
Puritan (US) beats Genesta (England) in 6th running of America's Cup |
1892 |
Amsterdam swim 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 |
1906 |
Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole |
1908 |
Carriage-maker, William Durant, founds General Motors in Flint, Michigan |
1913 |
1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage |
1915 |
Tsar Nicolas II adjourns 4th Duma |
1915 |
US takes control of customs & finances of Haiti for 10 years |
1919 |
American Legion incorporated by an act of Congress |
1919 |
Dutch Ruether beats Giants 4-3 to clinch Cincinnati 1st NL pennant |
1920 |
Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30 |
1922 |
42nd US Mens Tennis: Bill Tilden beats W M Johnston (4-6 3-6 6-2 6-3 6-4) |
1922 |
Turkish troops chase Greeks out of Asia |
1924 |
Cardinal Jim Bottomley bats in 12 RBIs in 1 game |
1926 |
-22] Hurricane in Florida & Alabama, kills 372 |
1926 |
Italian-Romanian peace treaty signed |
1926 |
Philip Dunning & George Abbott's "Broadway," premieres in NYC |
1926 |
St Louis Cards beat Phillies 23-3 |
1927 |
Rene Lacoste beats Bill Tilden for US Lawn Tennis Association title |
1928 |
Hurricane hits West Palm Beach-Lake Okeechobee Florida; 3,000 die |
1929 |
Police shoots at strikers at 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) |
1938 |
George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 357.5 MPH |
1939 |
53rd US Womens Tennis: Alice Marble beats Helen Hull Jacobs (6-0 8-10 6-4) |
1939 |
59th US Mens Tennis: Robert L Riggs beats S Welby van Horn (64 62 64) |
1939 |
NY Yankees clinch their 11th & 4th successive pennant |
1940 |
Dutch SS forms |
1940 |
FDR signs Selective Training & Service Act (1st peacetime draft) |
1940 |
Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for "inciting a riot" |
1940 |
Luftwaffe attacks center of London |
1940 |
Samuel T Rayburn of Tx elected speaker of House |
1940 |
St Louis Browns Johnny Lucadello is 2nd to HR from each side of plate |
1941 |
German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine |
1941 |
Hitler orders for every dead German 100 Yugoslavians to be killed |
1941 |
Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto |
1942 |
Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled |
1943 |
Montgomery's 8th army contacts invasion - arm forces at Salerno |
1943 |
Soviet army under general Vatutin reconquer Romny |
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 hit Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River erea, at least 1,930 killed. |
1948 |
"Heaven on Earth" opens at Century Theater NYC for 12 performances |
1948 |
"Mr Strauss Goes to Boston" closes at Century NYC after 12 perfs |
1949 |
KABC TV channel 7 in Los Angeles, CA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1950 |
Cleveland Browns (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, beat Phila 35-10) |
1950 |
Viet Minh-offensive against French bases in Vietnam |
1951 |
6th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
1951 |
NL umpire Frank Dascoli clears the Dogers 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 4 major auto reacing categories |
1955 |
Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt |
1956 |
Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Clock Golf Open |
1957 |
Coup in Thailand (Premier Songgram deposed) |
1957 |
LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers |
1959 |
French President Charles de Gaulle recognizes Algerian right of self determination |
1960 |
Amos Alonzo Stagg retires as a football coach at 98 |
1960 |
Mil Brave Warren Spahn no-hits Philadelphia Phillies, 4-0 |
1961 |
CDU loses West German election |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961 |
WLKY TV channel 32 in Louisville, KY (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 |
Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sacramento Golf Open |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1963 |
"Outer Limits" premieres on ABC-TV |
1963 |
Malaysia formed from Malaya, Singapore, Br No Borneo & Sarawak |
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 Cleve Indians, 2-0 |
1965 |
Sobibor trial opens in Hagen West Germany |
1966 |
Metropolitan Opera opens at NY's Lincoln Center |
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 Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968 |
KLNI (now KADN) TV channel 15 in Lafayette, LA (IND) begins |
1968 |
Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in" |
1970 |
King Hussein of Jordan forms military government |
1971 |
6 Ku Klux Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses |
1971 |
West German chancellor Willy Brandt meets with Soviet president Brezhnev |
1971 |
A number of Unionists resign over the proposed tripartite talks involving Northern Ireland, Britain, and the Republic of Ireland |
1972 |
1st TV series about mixed marriage-Bridgit Loves Bernie |
1972 |
Penny Marshall appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Fly Unfriendly Skies" |
1973 |
"Desert Song" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 15 performances |
1973 |
Buff Bill OJ Simpson rushes 250 yards (2 TDs), beating NE Pats 31-13 |
1973 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open |
1974 |
BART begins regular transbay service |
1974 |
Bob Dylan records Blood on the Tracks |
1974 |
Pres Ford announces conditional amnesty for US Vietnam War deserters |
1974 |
US General Haig becomes NATO supreme commander in Europe |
1975 |
Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia (National Day) |
1975 |
Pirates beat Cubs 22-0, Rennie Stennett is 3rd to go 7 for 7 |
1975 |
Rennie Stennett is 2nd to hit 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game |
1975 |
The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight. |
1976 |
Egypt president Sadat re-elected |
1976 |
American Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests & bishop |
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 |
Ringo releases "Drowning in Sea of Love" |
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 |
Filming on Monty Python's Life of Brian, begins |
1978 |
Grateful Dead perform in Cairo Egypt |
1978 |
Yanks beat Red Sox for 6th time in 2 weeks, 3-2 |
1979 |
23rd Ryder Cup: US wins, 17-11 at The Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, US) |
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 |
Nancy Lopez/JoAnn Washam wins Portland- Ping Team Golf Championship |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1981 |
1st broadcast of "Miami Vice" on NBC-TV |
1982 |
Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila & Sabra begins |
1983 |
Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes a US citizen |
1984 |
"Miami Vice" premieres |
1984 |
Emmy Creative Arts Award presentation |
1984 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
1986 |
Fire in Kinross gold mine, Transvaal South Africa, 177 killed |
1987 |
Calif's Bob Boone catches record 1,919th major league game |
1987 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-209 |
1987 |
NY's WNET-TV channel 13 begins round clock broadcasting |
1987 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1988 |
Cin Reds Tom Browning pitches a perfect game, beats 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 |
1988 |
Tom Browning of Cincinnati Reds pitches a perfect game against LA |
1989 |
Debbye Turner (Mont), 23, crowned 63rd Miss America 1990 |
1990 |
42nd Emmy Awards: LA Law, Murphy Brown, Peter Falk & Patricia Wettig win |
1990 |
Dennis Quaid & Meg Ryan wed |
1990 |
Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George Bush |
1990 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA SAFECO Golf Classic |
1990 |
Pirate Radio NY International begins transmissions on WWCR |
1991 |
Atlanta's Otis Nixon suspended for rest of 1991 due to cocaine |
1991 |
US trial of Panamanian leader Noriega begins |
1991 |
Norm Charlton suspended for 7 days for intentionally hitting Steve Scioscia with a pitch |
1992 |
"Les Miserables," opens at Nuevo Apolo, Madrid |
1992 |
900 die in flood in Pakistan |
1992 |
FCC votes to allow competition for local phone service |
1993 |
Minnesota Twins Dave Winfield, is 19th to get 3,000 hits |
1994 |
Fire Dept puts out smokey electrical fire in White House |
1995 |
Greg Maddux of Braves sets record of 17 consecutive road victory |
1995 |
Shawntel Smith (Okla), 24, crowned 69th Miss America 1996 |
1996 |
1st one-day international in Canada, India v Pakistan at Toronto |
1996 |
Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Panama City FL on WTBB 97.7 FM |
1996 |
Paul Molitor of Twins is 21st player to reach 3,000 hits |
1996 |
Space Shuttle STS 79 (Atlantis 17), launches into space |
1997 |
ABL MVP Nikki McCray signs with WNBA |
1997 |
Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs temporary CEO |
1997 |
Mark McGwire signs with the St Louis Cardinals for $26M |
2000 |
Sammy Sosa becomes the second player to hit 50 or more home runs in three consecutive years, joining Mark McGwire |
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. |
2007 |
59th Emmy Awards: The Sopranos, 30 Rock, James Spader & Sally Field win |
2008 |
Rentrer en soi announces that they would be breaking up. |
2011 |
The critically acclaimed "Drive", starring Ryan Gosling, is released |
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 |
14 people are killed and 7 wounded by a roadside bomb Jandol, 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 |
21 people are killed by Hurricane Ingrid in Mexico |
2013 |
12 people are killed after a gunman opens fire at a naval yard in Washington DC |
2013 |
Paul Kagame wins the Rwandan presidency in a landslide |
2016 |
Apple iPhone 7 buyers line up around the world |
2016 |
US regulators order recall of 1m Samsung Note 7 phones |
2016 |
UN Blames Syrian Government for Obstructing Aid to Aleppo |
2017 |
Nearly 2 million, mostly in Florida, without power in Irma's wake |
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