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- 1810
- Mexico declares its independence from Spain.
- 1884
- The Narrandera Tocumwal Line begins service in New South Wales.
- 1925
- A memorial to U.S. President Warren G. Harding is dedicated in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia.
- 1963
- Under the Malaysia Agreement, the Federation of Malaya merges with North Borneo, Sarawak, and Singapore to become Malaysia.
- 2009
- The Bicol Commuter begins service in the Bicol Region of the Philippines.
- 2019
- A statue of World War II pilot Khiuaz Dospanova is dedicated in Atyrau, Kazakhstan.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on September 16, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on September 16 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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