History Events on September 16

Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council.

#Pope_Honorius_I

Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.

#Hurricane_Ivan

Owain Glynd?r is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.

#Owain_Glynd?r

Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.

#1982_Lebanon_War

Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.

#Robert_College

The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.

#Juan_Perón

One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.

#One-Two-GO_Airlines_Flight_269

World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.

#10th_Army_(Wehrmacht)

In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory and a violent explosion ensues, killing two thirds of its inhabitants.

#Campo_Maior,_Portugal

A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard.

#Washington_Navy_Yard_shooting

A Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.

#Zulu-class_submarine

American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.

#Siege_of_Savannah

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.

#Hurricane_Esther

James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.

#James_Francis_Edward_Stuart

The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.

#Metropolitan_Opera_House_(Lincoln_Center)

Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.

#Land_Run_of_1893

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian-Kurdish forces.

#Siege_of_Kobanî

World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.

#World_War_II

Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.

#Papua_New_Guinea

The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.

#Montreal_Protocol

Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.

#Typhoon_Nancy_(1961)

Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves this new country.

#Malaysia

Cape Verde, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.

#Cape_Verde

World War II: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an end.

#Japanese_occupation_of_Hong_Kong

Black Wednesday: The British pound is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.

#Black_Wednesday

Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.

#Shavarsh_Karapetyan

The 7.4 Mw? Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At least 15,000 people were killed.

#1978_Tabas_earthquake

The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.

#Dostyk

World War I: The Siege of Przemy?l (present-day Poland) begins.

#World_War_I

The Sugarhill Gang were formed and rappers delight was released

#The_Sugarhill_Gang

American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.

#American_Revolutionary_War

The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.

#Mikoyan_MiG-31

The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.

#Wall_Street_bombing

The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ends in the United States with a 40-year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.

#Manuel_Noriega

The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.

#1988-94_British_broadcasting_voice_restrictions

Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.

The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.

Eight people escaped from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.

King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict which became to be known as Black September.

Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.

The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.

TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.

The General Motors Corporation is founded.

The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.

With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.

Pilgrims set sail from England on the Mayflower.

Emperor Severus II is captured and imprisoned at Tres Tabernae. He is later executed (or forced to commit suicide) after Galerius unsuccessfully invades Italy.