Today in History – Sept. 16 – 1848 – Slavery Abolished In All French Territories

1620 The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England, with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the New World (O.S. 6 Sept)

1795 British capture Capetown, South Africa, from the Dutch

1810 Mexico issues Grito de Dolores, calling for the end of Spanish rule (Mexican Independence Day)

1848 Slavery abolished in all French territories

1906 Douglas Mawson, Edgeworth David and Alistair Mackay claim to have discovered the Magnetic South Pole in Antarctica

1963 Federation of Malaysia formed by Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak

1978 25,000 die in 7.7 earthquake in Tabar, Iran

1997 Apple Computer Inc names co-founder Steve Jobs interim CEO

Today in Film & TV
1989 14th Toronto International Film Festival: “Roger & Me” directed by Michael Moore wins the People’s Choice Award

Today in Music
1966 Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center, New York with Leontyne Price as Cleopatra in “Antony and Cleopatra” by Samuel Barber

Today in Sport
1957 LA City Council approves 300-acre site in Chavez Ravine for Dodgers

Do you know this fact about today? Did You Know?
Carriage-maker, William C. Durant, founds General Motors in Flint, Michigan

Would you believe this fact about today? Would You Believe?
700 million malaria cases prevented in Africa since 2000 in report by University of Oxford in “Nature” journal