September 16, 1994 -- The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Fein and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.

September 16, 2019 -- Five months before the COVID-19 stock market crash, an overnight spike in lending rates in the United States prompts the Federal Reserve to conduct operations in the repo market.

September 16, 681 -- Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council.

September 16, 1400 -- Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.

In 1806, Andrew Jackson fought a duel with Charles Dickinson over a horse race, and Dickinson allegedly uttered a slur against Rachel, Jackson’s wife. During the duel, Dickinson fired first, and the bullet hit Jackson in the chest. The wound was not life-threatening as the bullet

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September 16, 1810 -- With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico's fight for independence from Spain.

September 16, 1822 -- 1822 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences, reports a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as we now call it) is stress-induced birefringence.

September 16, 1955 -- The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.

September 16, 2021 -- A 6.0 Mw  earthquake struck Lu County, China's southwestern province of Sichuan, killing three and injuring more than 88.

The oldest generation of people ever photographed. With the advent of early photography in the 1840s, the oldest people photographed at the time were born during the American Revolution.

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September 17, 1908 -- The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.

September 17, 1928 -- The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.

September 17, 2013 -- Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.

September 17, 1176 -- The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by the Byzantine Empire to recover central Anatolia from the Seljuk Turks.

September 17, 1382 -- Louis the Great's daughter, Mary, is crowned "king" of Hungary.

September 17, 1630 -- The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.

September 17, 1631 -- Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.