September 16: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1620 - The Mayflower starts her voyage to North America
2. 1812 - The Fire of Moscow begins shortly after midnight and destroys three quarters of the city days later.
3. 1863 - Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
4. 1880 - The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the nation's oldest, continuously-independent college daily in the United States.
5. 1920 - The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City - 38 are killed and 400 injured.
6. 1959 - The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
7. 1961 - The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
8. 1971 - Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
9. 1975 - Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
10. 1987 - The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
11. Famous Birthdays: King Henry V of England, James C. Penney (American department store founder), B. B. King (American musician), Marc Anthony (American singer), Alexis Bledel (American actress)

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