September 16

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1701	James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old Pretender", becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of Englandand Scotland.	The Platters	The Great Pretender	American Graffiti
2.	1812	Russians set fire to Moscow shortly after midnight – the city burns down completely days later.	The Appleseed Cast	View of a Burning City	Low Level Owl: Volume 1
3.	1908	General Motors is founded.	Sufjan Stevens	Flint (for the Unemployed and Underpaid)	Michigan
4.	1980	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the United Nations.	Brainiac	Vincent Come On Down	Hissing Prigs in Static Couture
5.	1992	Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against theDeutschmark.	Soundgarden	Fell on Black Days	Superunknown

(Historical facts about September 16 are from Wikipedia)