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September 16, 2019

Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 11, 2019, covering September 16, 2019.

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    Album cover for Fear Inoculum by Tool

    Fear Inoculum

    Tool

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    Album cover for Lover by Taylor Swift

    Lover

    Taylor Swift

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    Album cover for Norman Fucking Rockwell! by Lana Del Rey

    Norman Fucking Rockwell!

    Lana Del Rey

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    Album cover for We Love You Tecca by Lil Tecca

    We Love You Tecca

    Lil Tecca

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    Album cover for So Much Fun by Young Thug

    So Much Fun

    Young Thug

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Notable Deaths

H. S. Dillon

2019H. S. Dillon, Indonesian politician and human rights defender (born 1945)[†]

Harbrinderjit Singh Dillon was an Indonesian Sikh who occupied a variety of positions in Indonesian political life, including assistant to the Minister of Agriculture, and Commissioner of the National Commission on Human Rights). His positions included executive director of Partnership Governance Reform in Indonesia. He was an outspoken critic of corruption in Indonesia.

Historical Events

2020 stock market crash

2019Five months before the COVID-19 stock market crash, an overnight spike in lending rates in the United States prompts the Federal Reserve to conduct operations in the repo market.[†]

On 20 February 2020, stock markets across the world suddenly crashed after growing instability due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The crash ended on 7 April 2020.

Historical Context for September 16, 2019

In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]