| September 16 |
| 1620 |
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The Pilgrims sail from England on the Mayflower. |
| 1668 |
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King John Casimer V of Poland abdicates the throne. |
| 1747 |
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The French capture Bergen-op-Zoom, consolidating their occupation of Austrian Flanders in the Netherlands. |
| 1789 |
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Jean-Paul Marat sets up a new newspaper in France, L’Ami du Peuple. |
| 1810 |
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A revolution for independence breaks out in Mexico. |
| 1864 |
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Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest leads 4,500 men out of Verona, Miss. to harass Union outposts in northern Alabama and Tennessee. |
| 1889 |
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Robert Younger, in Minnesota’s Stillwater Penitentiary for life, dies of tuberculosis. Brothers Cole and Bob remain in the prison. |
| 1893 |
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Some 50,000 "Sooners" claim land in the Cherokee Strip during the first day of the Oklahoma land rush. |
| 1908 |
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General Motors files papers of incorporation. |
| 1920 |
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Thirty people are killed in a terrorist bombing in New York’s Wall Street financial district. |
| 1934 |
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Anti-Nazi Lutherans stage protest in Munich. |
| 1940 |
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Congress passes the Selective Service Act, which calls for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. |
| 1942 |
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The Japanese base at Kiska in the Aleutian Islands is raided by American bombers. |
| 1945 |
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Japan surrenders Hong Kong to Britain. |
| 1950 |
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The U.S. 8th Army breaks out of the Pusan Perimeter in South Korea and begins heading north to meet MacArthur’s troops heading south from Inchon. |
| 1972 |
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South Vietnamese troops recapture Quang Tri province in South Vietnam from the North Vietnamese Army. |
| 1974 |
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Limited amnesty is offered to Vietnam-era draft resisters who would now swear allegiance to the United States and perform two years of public service. |
| 1975 |
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Administrators for Rhodes Scholarships announce the decision to begin offering fellowships to women. |
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Born on September 16 |
| 1838 |
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James J. Hill, railroad builder. |
| 1875 |
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James Cash Penney, founder and owner of the J.C. Penny Company department stores. |
| 1885 |
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Karen Horney, psychoanalyst who exposed the male bias in the Freudian analysis of women. |
| 1891 |
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Karl Doenitz, German Admiral who succeeded Hitler in governing Germany. |
| 1893 |
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Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, biochemist who isolated vitamin C. |
| 1925 |
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Charlie Byrd, jazz guitarist. |
| 1925 |
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B.B. King, blues guitarist. |
| 1926 |
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John Knowles, writer (A Separate Peace). |
| 1950 |
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Henry Louis Gates Jr., critic and scholar. |
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