Following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 16
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1940 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Selective Service Bill, making all American men between 21 and 35 liable to be called for military service.
1945 - The last remnants of the Japanese army in Hong Kong surrendered to the British.
1977 - Operatic soprano Maria Callas died in Paris at the age of 53.
1996 - McGeorge Bundy, a top aide to presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson and an architect of U.S. policy in Vietnam, died.
1998 - In Spain, the Basque guerrilla group ETA announced a "total and indefinite" truce to take effect on September 18.
1999 - Algerians voted almost unanimously to endorse President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's drive to end years of violence.
2000 - Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe and teammates set new world record at Olympics.
2004 - Africans opened a new home near Johannesburg for the Pan-African Parliament, Africa's first representative body.
2005 - Agbar Tower inaugurated by King Juan Carlos in Barcelona.
2007 - A budget airliner packed with foreign tourists crashed on the Thai resort island of Phuket, killing 89 people as it was trying to land in heavy rain.
2013 - Fatal shooting at Navy Yard in Washington, D.C. kills 12 people.
