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September 16th, 2007	Event	One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
September 16th, 2005	Event	Camorra boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples.
September 16th, 2004	Event	Hurricane Ivan touches land near Pensacola, Florida, becoming the third (now fourth) costliest hurricane to strike the United States.
September 16th, 1992	Event	Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the Deutschmark.
September 16th, 1991	Event	The trial of Panamanian "strongman" Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
September 16th, 1987	Event	The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
September 16th, 1982	Event	Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
September 16th, 1978	Event	An earthquake hits the city of Tabas, Iran measuring 7.5-7.9 on the Richter scale killing about 25,000 people.
September 16th, 1976	Event	Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir
September 16th, 1975	Event	Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.

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