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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.

1940 Congress passes the Selective Service Act, which calls for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.

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. Armymann50 doesn't personally know any of these pussies

1975 Administrators for Rhodes Scholarships announce the decision to begin offering fellowships to women.

1978 An earthquake estimated to be as strong as 7.9 on the Richter scale kills 25,000 people in Iran.

1991 The trial of Manuel Noriega, deposed dictator of Panama, begins in the United States.

1994 Britain's government lifts the 1988 broadcasting ban against member of Ireland's Sinn Fein and Irish paramilitary groups.

2007 Military contractors in the employ of Blackwater Worldwide allegedly kill 17 Iraqis in Baghdad's Nisour Square, further straining relations between the US and the people of Iraq.

Born on September 16


1927 Peter Falk, actor, best known for his role as detective Columbo in the TV series of the same name.

1956 David Copperfield, magician.