Tuesday, Sep 16, 2025
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1861 - New Orleans banks suspend specie payment.
1862 - General Bragg's army surrounds 4000 federals at Munfordville, Kentucky.
1940 - Samuel T Rayburn of Texas elected speaker of the US House of Representatives.
1944 - Adolf Hitler meets with military advisors at Wolfsschanze in East Prussia. Hitler announces he will launch an offensive through the Ardennes, with objective being Antwerp, Belgium. The idea is to isolate the British, Canadian, and two American armies in the north, and force their surrender. The reduced strength of the US might then cause them to make peace, fearful of communist Soviet Union.
1955 - US Auto Club forms to oversee four major auto racing categories.
1966 - Metropolitan Opera opens at New York's Lincoln Center.
1971 - Six Klansmen arrested in connection with bombing of ten school buses.
1974 - US President Gerald Ford announces conditional amnesty for American Vietnam War deserters.
1983 - The Austrian body building champion and movie actor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, becomes a U. S. citizen.
1985 - Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs resigns as chairman of Apple Computer.