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Today in History: September 16
1620
The Pilgrims sail from England on the Mayflower.

1864
Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest leads 4,500 men out of Verona, Miss. to harass Union outposts in northern Alabama and Tennessee.

1893
Some 50,000 "Sooners" claim land in the Cherokee Strip during the first day of the Oklahoma land rush.

1920
Thirty people are killed in a terrorist bombing in New York's Wall Street financial district.

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.

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.

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

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.

2021
Idaho Department of Health and Wellness says whole state now in a hospital resource crisis, will ration healthcare, due to COVID-19 surge

2023
A massive rockslide in Greenland creates a tsunami wave in the Dickson fjord that shakes the earth for nine days

Today in History: Born on September 16
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.

1925
B.B. King, blues guitarist.

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

1956
David Copperfield, magician.

JOTD
After my accident, I woke up in hospital with a sexy nurse standing over me.

She said, “You may not feel anything from the waist down.”
“Fair enough,” I replied, and felt her breasts.