Events
307
– Severus II is captured and imprisoned
at Tres Tabernae. He is later executed
(or forced to commit suicide) after Emperor
Galerius unsuccessfully invades Italy.
1400 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince
of Wales by his followers.
1620 – The Mayflower starts her voyage
to North America
1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes
called the "Old Pretender",
becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones
of England and Scotland.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: the
Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The
Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
1795 – The first occupation by United
Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with
the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive
victories at the Battle of Muizenberg
and Wynberg, after William V requested
protection against revolutionary France's
occupation of the Netherlands.
1810 – With the Grito de Dolores, Father
Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for
independence from Spain.
1812 – The Fire of Moscow (1812) begins
shortly after midnight and destroys three
quarters of the city days later.
1863 – Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey,
the first American educational institution
outside the United States, is founded
by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its
first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun
is the nation's oldest, continuously-independent
college daily in the United States.
1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime
land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
1908 – The General Motors Corporation
is founded.
1919 – The American Legion is incorporated.
1920 – The Wall Street bombing: a bomb
in a horse wagon explodes in front of
the J. P. Morgan building in New York
City – 38 are killed and 400 injured.
1940 – World War II: Italian troops conquer
Sidi Barrani.
1941 – World War II: Concerned that Reza
Pahlavi the Shah of Persia is about to
ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi
Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet
Union invade Iran in late August and force
the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son,
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
1943 – World War II: The Allied invasion
of Italy concludes when Heinrich von Vietinghoff,
commander of the German Tenth Army, orders
his troops to withdraw from Salerno.
1945 – World War II: The surrender of
the Japanese troops in Hong Kong. The
surrender is accepted by the Royal Navy
Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.
1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama,
Tokyo and Tone River area, at least 1,930
killed.
1955 – Juan Perón is deposed as the ruler
of Argentina.
1959 – The first successful photocopier,
the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration
on live television from New York City.
1961 – The United States National Hurricane
Research Project drops eight cylinders
of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane
Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving
rise to Project Stormfury.
1963 – Malaysia is formed from the Federation
of Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo
(Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore
soon leaves this new country,
1966 – The Metropolitan Opera House opens
at Lincoln Center in New York City with
the world premiere of Samuel Barber's
opera, Antony and Cleopatra.
1970 – King Hussein of Jordan declares
military rule following the hijacking
of four civilian airliners by the Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine
(PFLP). This results in the formation
of the Black September Palestinian paramilitary
unit.
1971 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the
strongest winds ever measured in a tropical
cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan,
killing 173 people.
1975 – Papua New Guinea gains its independence
from Australia.
1975 – The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique,
and Sao Tome and Principe join the United
Nations.
1975 – The first prototype of the MiG-31
interceptor makes its maiden flight.
1976 – Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people
from the trolleybus that had fallen into
Erevan reservoir.
1978 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 to
7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city
of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people.
1980 – Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
join the United Nations.
1982 – Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed
to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
1990 – The railroad between the People's
Republic of China and Kazakhstan becomes
complete at Dostyk, adding a sizable link
to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
1991 – The trial of the deposed Panamanian
dictator Manuel Noriega 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 German
mark.
2005 – The Camorra organized crime boss
Paolo Di Lauro gets arrested in Naples,
Italy.
2007 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269
carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes
in Thailand killing 89 people.
2007 – Mercenaries working for Blackwater
Worldwide allegedly shoot and kill 17
Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square, Baghdad;
all criminal charges against them are
later dismissed, sparking outrage in the
Arab world.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Curcodomus
Cyprian (Roman Catholic Church)
Edith of Wilton
Euphemia
Ninian
Pope Cornelius
Ludmila
September 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Heroes' Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
Independence Day, celebrates the declaration
of independence of Mexico from Spain in
1810. See Fiestas Patrias
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Papua New Guinea from Australia in
1975.
International Day for the Preservation
of the Ozone Layer (International)
Malaysia Day (Malaysia, Singapore)
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