September 16
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September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in
leap years). There are 106 days remaining.
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Events
\n*1776 - Battle of Harlem Heights\n*1795 - United Kingdom conquers Cape Town, South Africa\n*1810 - Independence of Mexico from Spain, one of the Mexican Fiestas Patrias.\n*1893 - Oklahoma Land Race, settlers race for prime land in the Cherokee Strip\n*1908 - General Motors founded\n*1919 - American Legion incorporated\n*1940 - United States government begins Selective Service Act, instituting the draft\n*1940 - Sam Rayburn elected Speaker of the United States House of Representatives\n*1955 - Play-Doh is introduced to the world\n*1963 - Malaysia formed from Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo and Sarawak\n*1975 - Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia\n*1981 - Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Thomas Hearns by a knockout in round 14 in Las Vegas to unify boxing\'s world Welterweight championship.\n*1982 - Sabra and Shatila massacre\n*1991 - Manuel Noriega trial begins in the United States\n*1992 - Black Wednesday - the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and to devalue against the Deutschmark
Births
\n*1745 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal, (d. 1813)\n*1823 - Francis Parkman, author (d. 1893)\n*1875 - James C. Penney, department store founder (d. 1971)\n*1886 - Jean Arp, sculptor, painter, and poet (d. 1966) \n*1893 - Alexander Korda, film director (d. 1956)\n*1914 - Allen Funt, radio & television personality (d. 1999)\n*1924 - Lauren Bacall, actress\n*1925 - B. B. King, musician\n* 1925 - Charlie Byrd, jazz musician (d. 1999)\n*1927 - Peter Falk, actor, best known for Columbo\n*1934 - Elgin Baylor, National Basketball Association star\n* 1934 - George Chakiris, actor\n*1935 - Carl Andre, artist\n*1939 - Breyten Breytenbach, South African poet, writer and painter\n*1943 - James Alan McPherson, Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction\n*1947 - Russ Abbott, comedian\n*1949 - Ed Begley Jr, actor\n*1950 - Loyd Grossman, TV presenter\n* 1950 - Mickey Rourke, actor\n*1955 - Janet Ellis, former Blue Peter presenter\n* 1955 - Yolandita Monge, Puerto Rican singer of international fame\n* 1955 - Robin Yount, baseball player\n*1956 - David Copperfield, magician\n*1958 - Orel Hershiser, baseball pitcher\n* 1958 - Jennifer Tilly, actress\n*1960 - John Franco, baseball relief pitcher\n*1963 - Richard Marx, singer\n*1964 - Molly Shannon, Saturday Night Live star\n*1969 - Mark Anthony, singer
Deaths
\n*1087 - Pope Victor III\n*1736 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist\n*1977 - Marc Bolan, rock singer\n*1977 - Maria Callas, opera singer\n*1824 - Louis XVIII of France\n*1993 - Rok Petrovič, Slovenian alpine skier\n*1996 - McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor\n*2001 - Samuel A. Arkoff, film producer
Holidays
\n*Mexico - Independence Day\n*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.
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