Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
| September 16 | ||
| 1620 | The Pilgrims sail from England on the Mayflower. | |
| 1668 | King John Casimer V of Poland abdicates the throne. | |
| 1747 | The French capture Bergen-op-Zoom, consolidating their occupation of Austrian Flanders in the Netherlands. | |
| 1789 | Jean-Paul Marat sets up a new newspaper in France, L'Ami du Peuple. | |
| 1810 | A revolution for independence breaks out in Mexico. | |
| 1864 | Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest leads 4,500 men out of Verona, Miss. to harass Union outposts in northern Alabama and Tennessee. | |
| 1889 | Robert Younger, in Minnesota's Stillwater Penitentiary for life, dies of tuberculosis. Brothers Cole and Bob remain in the prison. | |
| 1893 | Some 50,000 "Sooners" claim land in the Cherokee Strip during the first day of the Oklahoma land rush. | |
| 1908 | General Motors files papers of incorporation. | |
| 1920 | Thirty people are killed in a terrorist bombing in New York's Wall Street financial district. | |
| 1934 | Anti-Nazi Lutherans stage protest in Munich. | |
| 1940 | Congress passes the Selective Service Act, which calls for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. | |
| 1942 | The Japanese base at Kiska in the Aleutian Islands is raided by American bombers. | |
| 1945 | Japan surrenders Hong Kong to Britain. | |
| 1950 | 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 | South Vietnamese troops recapture Quang Tri province in South Vietnam from the North Vietnamese Army. | |
| 1974 | 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 | Administrators for Rhodes Scholarships announce the decision to begin offering fellowships to women. | |
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Born on September 16 |
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| 1838 | James J. Hill, railroad builder. | |
| 1875 | James Cash Penney, founder and owner of the J.C. Penny Company department stores. | |
| 1885 | Karen Horney, psychoanalyst who exposed the male bias in the Freudian analysis of women. | |
| 1891 | Karl Doenitz, German Admiral who succeeded Hitler in governing Germany. | |
| 1893 | Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, biochemist who isolated vitamin C. | |
| 1925 | Charlie Byrd, jazz guitarist. | |
| 1925 | B.B. King, blues guitarist. | |
| 1926 | John Knowles, writer (A Separate Peace). | |
| 1950 | Henry Louis Gates Jr., critic and scholar. | |
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