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British Five Pound gold coin
Italian tanks during Italy's invasion of Egypt
A statue of Miguel Hidalgo
A statue of Miguel Hidalgo
James Francis Edward Stuart
Shah Reza Pahlavi
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| and Papua New Guinea (1975) | outdated |
| 1701 – Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, more commonly referred to as the "Old Pretender", became the Jacobite claimant of the thrones of England and Scotland. | refimprove section |
| 1863 – Robert College, the first American educational institution outside the United States, was founded in Istanbul. | refimprove |
| 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. | refimprove section |
| 1992 – The British pound was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday, and suffered a major devaluation. | refimprove |
| 2007 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269, carrying 128 crew and passengers, crashed at Phuket International Airport, Thailand, killing 89 people. | neutrality issues |
Eligible
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: On hearing the British troops sounding their bugles as if it were a fox hunt, the American colonists held their ground and achieved a victory at the Battle of Harlem Heights in present-day New York City.
- 1940 – World War II: Italy captured the town of Sidi Barrani, but their invasion of Egypt progressed no further.
- 1941 – Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran was forced to abdicate in favour of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
- 1961 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, made initial landfall in Muroto, Kōchi, Japan.
- 1963 – Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (present-day Sabah), and Sarawak merged to form Malaysia.
- 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 700 civilians.
- 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.
- 2007 – Seventeen Iraqi civilians were shot and killed, allegedly by Blackwater Worldwide mercenaries; all criminal charges were later dropped.
September 16: Malaysia Day; Independence Day in Mexico (1810)
- 1400 – Owain Glyndŵr was proclaimed Prince of Wales and instigated a revolt against the rule of Henry IV of England.
- 1810 – Miguel Hidalgo, the parish priest in Dolores, Guanajuato, delivered the Grito de Dolores to his congregation, instigating the Mexican War of Independence against Spain.
- 1920 – A bomb in a horse wagon exploded (aftermath pictured) in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City, killing 38 people and injuring 400 others.
- 1961 – The United States' National Hurricane Research Project sought to weaken Hurricane Esther by seeding it with silver iodide, leading to the establishment of Project Stormfury.
- 1990 – Construction of the Northern Xinjiang Railway was completed between Ürümqi and Alashankou, linking the railway lines of China and Kazakhstan, and adding a sizable portion to the Eurasian Land Bridge.
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