^B{^#!16!18 September^N! National Day of Chile. Feast day of St John Massias, St Joseph of Cupertino, St Richardis, St Ferreolus of Limoges, St Ferreolus of Vienne, and St Methodius of Olympus.
^B{1851^B} The ^I{New York Times^I} was first published. ^B{1879^B} Blackpool's famous illuminations were switched on for the first time. ^B{1910^B} The Chilean revolt against Spanish rule began. ^B{1914^B} The Irish Home Rule Bill went into effect. ^B{1918^B} The Battle of Megiddo, in Palestine, began. ^B{1927^B} CBS, the Columbia Broadcasting System, was inaugurated in the US. ^B{1931^B} Japan seized Manchuria and set up a puppet state called Manchukuo - it was returned to China in 1945 after World War II. ^B{1934^B} The USSR was admitted to the League of Nations. ^B{1939^B} William Joyce, whose upper-class accent earned him the nickname Lord Haw-Haw, made his first Nazi propaganda broadcast from Germany to the UK. ^B{1981^B} France abolished execution by guillotine. ^B{1991^B} The Yugoslav navy began a blockade of seven port cities on the Adriatic coast in Dalmatia.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Dr Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer, ^B{1709^B}; Jean Bernard LΘon Foucault, French physicist, ^B{1819^B}; Greta Garbo, Swedish film actress, ^B{1905^B}; Jack Cardiff, British film director, ^B{1914^B}; Frankie Avalon, US singer and actor, ^B{1939^B}; Peter Shilton, English footballer, ^B{1949^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician, ^B{1783^B}; William Hazlitt, British essayist and critic, ^B{1830^B}; Dag Hammarskj÷ld, Swedish UN secretary-general, ^B{1961^B}; Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist, ^B{1964^B}; John Douglas Cockcroft, English nuclear physicist, ^B{1967^B}; Jimi Hendrix, US rock guitarist, ^B{1970^B}.
