📜 This Day in History

September 16

• 681Pope Honorius I was posthumously excommunicated at the Third Council of Constantinople, with his support for monothelitism deemed to be heretical.
• 1920A bomb in a horse-drawn wagon exploded in front of 23 Wall Street in New York City, killing 38 people and injuring several hundred others.
• 1961Typhoon Nancy, which possibly had the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, made landfall in Muroto, Japan.
• 1979Eight people escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a home-made hot air balloon.
• 1992The British pound was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday and suffered a major devaluation.
• 2013A lone gunman fatally shot twelve people and injured three others at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.

Born on this day

• 1891Karl Dönitz, German admiral and politician, President of Germany (died 1980)
• 1923Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (died 2015)
• 1924Lauren Bacall, American actress (died 2014)
• 1925B.B. King, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (died 2015)