Today in History, September 16th

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, September 16th!

1620	The Pilgrims sail from England on the Mayflower.
1630	The Massachusetts village of Shawmut changed its name to Boston.
1638	France’s King Louis XIV was born.
1668	King John Casimer V of Poland abdicates the throne.
1747	The French capture Bergen-op-Zoom, consolidating their occupation of Austrian Flanders in the Netherlands.
1789	Jean-Paul Marat sets up a new newspaper in France, L’Ami du Peuple. Jean-Paul Marat
1810	Mexico began a successful revolt against Spanish rule.
1857	The song “Jingle Bells” by James Pierpont was copyrighted under its original title, “One Horse Open Sleigh.”
1864	Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest leads 4,500 men out of Verona, Miss. to harass Union outposts in northern Alabama and Tennessee.
1889	Robert Younger, in Minnesota’s Stillwater Penitentiary for life, dies of tuberculosis. Brothers Cole and Bob remain in the prison.
1893	Some 50,000 “Sooners” claim land in the Cherokee Strip during the first day of the Oklahoma land rush.
1908	General Motors was formed in Flint, Mich., by William Durant.
1919	The American Legion was incorporated by an act of Congress.
1920	Thirty people are killed in a terrorist bombing in New York’s Wall Street financial district.
1934	Anti-Nazi Lutherans stage protest in Munich.
1940	Congress passes the Selective Service Act, which calls for the first peacetime draft in U.S. history.
1940	Rep. Samuel T. Rayburn, D-Texas, the longest-serving House speaker in history, was first elected to the post. Samuel T. Rayburn
1942	The Japanese base at Kiska in the Aleutian Islands is raided by American bombers.
1945	Japan surrenders Hong Kong to Britain.
1950	The U.S. 8th Army breaks out of the Pusan Perimeter in South Korea and begins heading north to meet MacArthur’s troops heading south from Inchon.
1966	The Metropolitan Opera opened its new home at New York City’s Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
1972	South Vietnamese troops recapture Quang Tri province in South Vietnam from the North Vietnamese Army.
1972	“The Bob Newhart Show” premiered on CBS.
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.
1975	Administrators for Rhodes Scholarships announce the decision to begin offering fellowships to women.
1978	An earthquake estimated to be as strong as 7.9 on the Richter scale kills 25,000 people in Iran.
1991	The trial of Manuel Noriega, deposed dictator of Panama, begins in the United States.
1994	Britain’s government lifts the 1988 broadcasting ban against member of Ireland’s Sinn Fein and Irish paramilitary groups. Sinn Fein