Sept. 16 in history:
1997 – Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs temporary CEO
1997 – Mark McGwire signs with the St. Louis Cardinals for $26M
1996 – Space Shuttle STS-79 (Atlantis 17), launches into space
1994 Fire Department puts out smokey electrical fire in White House
1992 900 die in flood in Pakistan
1990 101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle, New York
1990 Iraq televises an 8 minute uncensored speech from George Bush
1982 Massacre of 1000+ Palestinian refugees at Chatila and Sabra begins
1978 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar Iran
1979 Coup in Afghanistan under Hafizullah Amin
1971 6 Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of 10 school buses
1970 Jordan king Hussein forms military government
1957 Coup in Thailand (Premier Songgram deposed)
1957 LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers
1955 Yankee Mickey Mantle pulls a hamstring muscle running out a bunt
1945 Barometric pressure at 856 mb (25.55″) off Okinawa (record low)
1941 German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine
1941 Hitler orders for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavian be killed
1941 Jews of Vilna Poland confined to Ghetto
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Selective Training and Service Act (1st peacetime draft)
1940 Leo Durocher suspended from Ebbetts Field for “inciting a riot”
1940 Samuel T. Rayburn of Texas elected speaker of House
1939 New York Yankees clinch their 11th and 4th successive pennant
1928 Hurricane hits West Palm
Beach-Lake Okeechobee Florida; 3,000 die
1926 Hurricane in Florida and Alabama, kills 372
1920 Bomb explosion in Wall Street, kills 30
1915 Czar Nicolas II adjourns 4th Duma
1915 U.S. takes control of customs and finances of Haiti for 10 years
1913 1000s of women demonstrate for Dutch female suffrage
1908 Carriage-maker, William Durant, founded General Motors Corp
1908 William Crapo Durant incorporates General Motors in Janesville Wisc
1906 Roald Amundsen discovers Magnetic South Pole
1862 Battle of Antietam, bloodiest day in Civil War (Sharpsburg Md)
1861 British Post Office Savings Banks opens
1858 1st overland mail for California