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September 16

Western terminus of the Northern Xinjiang railway

681 – At the Third Council of Constantinople, Pope Honorius I was posthumously excommunicated, with his support for monothelitism deemed to be heretical.
1844 – Felix Mendelssohn completed the score of his Violin Concerto, his final concerto.
1979 – Eight people escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a home-made hot air balloon.
1990 – Construction of the Northern Xinjiang railway (terminus pictured) was completed between Ürümqi South and Alashankou, linking the railway lines of China and Kazakhstan and adding a sizeable portion to the Eurasian Land Bridge.

Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122)
Elisabeth Bagréeff-Speransky (b. 1799)
Vesta Tilley (d. 1952)
Louis Ngwat-Mahop (b. 1987)

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