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September 8, 2016

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Historical Context for September 8, 2016

In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]

Notable Deaths

Hannes Arch

2016Hannes Arch, Austrian race pilot (born 1967)[†]

Hannes Arch was an Austrian pilot who competed in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship from 2007 to 2016. Arch won the World Championship in the 2008 season.

Dragiša Pešić

2016Dragiša Pešić, Montenegrin politician, 5th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1954)[†]

Dragiša Pešić was a Yugoslav politician. He was the second last Prime Minister of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

Prince Buster

2016Prince Buster, Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer (born 1938)[†]

Cecil Bustamente Campbell, known professionally as Prince Buster, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer. The records he released in the 1960s influenced and shaped the course of Jamaican contemporary music and created a legacy of work that would be drawn upon later by reggae and ska artists.

Historical Events

OSIRIS-REx

2016NASA launches OSIRIS-REx, its first asteroid sample return mission. The probe visited 101955 Bennu and returned with samples in September 2023.[†]

OSIRIS-REx was a NASA asteroid-study and sample-return mission that visited and collected samples from 101955 Bennu, a carbonaceous near-Earth asteroid. The material, returned in September 2023, is expected to enable scientists to learn more about the formation and evolution of the Solar System, its initial stages of planet formation, and the source of organic compounds that led to the formation of life on Earth. Following the completion of the primary OSIRIS-REx mission, the spacecraft is planned to conduct a flyby of asteroid 99942 Apophis, renamed as OSIRIS-APEX.

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