Template:On this day/September 16

Copy the 3-5 most noteworthy events from the corresponding date page. Please change to past tense and bold the key article. You may also include a relevant photo, sized between 100-140px wide and aligned right.

September 16:

• 1843 – Charles McKenzie Oerting was born.
• 1889 – The Pensacola Chamber of Commerce met for the first time and William Dudley Chipley became its first president.
• 2004 – Hurricane Ivan made landfall near Gulf Shores. Trucker Roberto Alvarado was killed when his cab fell into Escambia Bay.
• 2007 – Roy Atchison was arrested at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport in an Internet sex sting.