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Aftermath of the 1920 Wall Street bombing
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Italian tanks during the invasion of Egypt
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A statue of Miguel Hidalgo
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A statue of Miguel Hidalgo
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James Francis Edward Stuart
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Shah Reza Pahlavi
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Radar image of Typhoon Nancy
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Battle of Harlem Heights
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Western terminus of the Northern Xinjiang railway
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| Independence Day in Mexico (1810) | Mexico: unreferenced section |
| 1400 – Owain Glyndŵr was proclaimed Prince of Wales and instigated a revolt against the rule of Henry IV of England. | Owain: refimprove section; Rising: refimprove |
| 1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, nicknamed the "Old Pretender", became the Jacobite claimant to the English and Scottish thrones. | too much unreferenced |
| 1810 – Miguel Hidalgo, the parish priest in Dolores, Guanajuato, delivered the Cry of Dolores to his congregation, instigating the Mexican War of Independence against Spain. | unreferenced section |
| 1822 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences, reported a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as we now call it) is stress-induced birefringence. | Orange "additional citations needed" banner |
| 1863 – Robert College, the first American educational institution outside the United States, was founded in Istanbul. | unreferenced section |
| 1941 – Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran was forced to abdicate in favour of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. | refimprove section |
| 1943 – World War II: Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the German 10th Army, decided to withdraw his troops from Salerno, concluding the Allied invasion of Italy. | unreferenced section |
| 1987 – The Montreal Protocol, an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of a number of substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion, opened for signature. | refimprove section |
| 2005 – Paolo Di Lauro, the head of the Di Lauro clan in the Italian crime organization the Camorra, was arrested and later sentenced to 30 years in prison for drug trafficking. | too much unreferenced |
| 2007 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269, carrying 128 crew and passengers, crashed at Phuket International Airport, Thailand, killing 89 people. | multiple issues |
| Pandulf Verraccio |d|1226| | Unref section |
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- 681 – At the Third Council of Constantinople, Pope Honorius I was posthumously excommunicated, with his support for monothelitism deemed to be heretical.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: American colonists defeated British troops at the Battle of Harlem Heights (depicted) on the island of Manhattan.
- 1844 – Felix Mendelssohn completed the score of his Violin Concerto, his final concerto.
- 1940 – Second World War: Italian forces captured the town of Sidi Barrani, but their invasion of Egypt progressed no further.
- 1961 – Typhoon Nancy, which possibly had the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, made landfall in Muroto, Japan.
- 1961 – The U.S. National Hurricane Research Project sought to weaken Hurricane Esther by seeding it with silver iodide, leading to the establishment of Project Stormfury.
- 1963 – Malaysia was formed as an independent nation from the Federation of Malaya, the Colony of Singapore, the Crown Colony of North Borneo, and the Crown Colony of Sarawak.
- 1979 – Eight people escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a home-made hot air balloon.
- 1982 – A Lebanese militia under the direct command of Elie Hobeika carried out a massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila, killing at least 460 civilians.
- 1990 – Construction of the Northern Xinjiang railway (terminus pictured) was completed between Ürümqi South and Alashankou, linking the railway lines of China and Kazakhstan and adding a sizeable portion to the Eurasian Land Bridge.
- 2007 – Seventeen Iraqi civilians were shot and killed by Academi guards in Baghdad.
- 2013 – A lone gunman fatally shot twelve people and injured three others at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.
- Born/died: | Vitalis of Savigny |d|1122| Philip III of Navarre |d|1343| Mikhail Kutuzov |b|1745| Elisabeth Bagréeff-Speransky |b|1799| Bonar Law |b|1858| Miriam Benjamin |b|1861| Nadia Boulanger |b|1887| Vesta Tilley |d|1952| Karen Muir |b|1952| Ahn Eak-tai |d|1965| Louis Réard |d|1984| Katie Melua |b|1984| Louis Ngwat-Mahop |b|1987| Millicent Fenwick |d|1992| Baka Prase |b|1996| Claude |b|2003| Robert Redford |d|2025|
September 16: Malaysia Day in Malaysia (1963); Independence Day in Papua New Guinea (1975) Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1400 – Owain Glyndŵr proclaimed himself Prince of Wales, declaring that he could save the Welsh from English invasions.
- 1920 – A bomb in a horse-drawn wagon exploded in front of 23 Wall Street in New York City, killing 38 people and injuring several hundred others.
- 1975 – The prototype of the Soviet [[Mikoyan MiG-31|Mikoyan Template:Nowrap]], one of the fastest combat jets in the world, made its maiden flight.
- 1989 – During a tour of the United States, Soviet politician Boris Yeltsin visited a grocery store in Texas that had a major impact on his views regarding the Soviet Union's economic system.
- 1992 – The British pound (coin pictured) was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday and suffered a major devaluation.