Am 16. September… oder on 16/09

Events

• 1795 – United Kingdom conquers Cape Town, South Africa.(good for them, flag waving basterds )
• 1908 – General Motors is founded. ( and it only took them 101 years to go bankrupt)
• 1975 – Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia. (take that ozzies!)
• 1981 – Sugar Ray Leonard beats Thomas Hearns in their first of two epic boxing bouts. (yeah, absolutely)
• 1981 my Birthday
• 1987 – Montreal Abkommen zum Schutz der Ozonschicht
• 1992 – 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. (auf Englisch, weils so geil klingt)
• 1997 – Steve Jobs wird wieder CEO von Apple

• 1386 – King Henry V of England
• 1507 – Jiajing, Emperor of China
• 1925 – B. B. King
• 1956 – David Copperfield

And that’s all folks

Happy 16. September 2009!