What happened on September 16? There are more than 317 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About September 16
September 16 is the 260th day of the year 2024. There are 106 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday. This day falls under the 38th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Dover, Florida 33527 sunrise will occur at 07:13 AM and sunset will occur at 07:33 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Virgo. The modern birthstone for this month is Sapphire while the mystical birthstone is Agate.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 135 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For September 16
- 307Severus II is captured and imprisoned at Tres Tabernae. He is later executed (or forced to commit suicide) after Emperor Galerius unsuccessfully invades Italy.
- 1400Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
- 1620The Mayflower starts her voyage to North America
- 1701James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the “Old Pretender”, becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
- 1776American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
- 1779American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
- 1795The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at the Battle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William V requested protection against revolutionary France’s occupation of the Netherlands.
- 1810With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain.
- 1812The Fire of Moscow (1812) begins shortly after midnight and destroys three quarters of the city days later.
- 1863Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
- 1880The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the nation’s oldest, continuously-independent college daily in the United States.
- 1893Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
- 1908The General Motors Corporation is founded.
- 1919The American Legion is incorporated.
- 1920The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City – 38 are killed and 400 injured.
- 1940World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
- 1941World War II: Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
- 1943World War II: The Allied invasion of Italy concludes when Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the German Tenth Army, orders his troops to withdraw from Salerno.
- 1945World War II: The surrender of the Japanese troops in Hong Kong. The surrender is accepted by the Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.
- 1947Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, at least 1,930 killed.
- 1955Juan Perón is deposed as the ruler of Argentina.
- 1959The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
- 1961The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
- 1963Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves this new country,
- 1966The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s opera, Antony and Cleopatra.
- 1970King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule following the hijacking of four civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This results in the formation of the Black September Palestinian paramilitary unit.
- 1971Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
- 1975Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
- 1975The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe join the United Nations.
- 1975The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
- 1976Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
- 1978An earthquake measuring 7.5 to 7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people.
- 1980Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the United Nations.
- 1982Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
- 1987The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
- 1990The railroad between the People’s Republic of China and Kazakhstan becomes complete at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
- 1991The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
- 1992Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
- 2005The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro gets arrested in Naples, Italy.
- 2007Mercenaries working for Blackwater Worldwide allegedly shoot and kill 17 Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square, Baghdad; all criminal charges against them are later dismissed, sparking outrage in the Arab world.
- 2007One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
Who Were Born On September 16?
- 16Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. 38)
- 1386King Henry V of England, (d. 1422)
- 1507Jiajing, Emperor of China (d. 1567)
- 1557Jacques Mauduit, French composer (d. 1627)
- 1651Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (d. 1716)
- 1666Antoine Parent, French mathematician (d. 1716)
- 1678Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (d. 1751)
- 1716Angelo Maria Amorevoli, a leading Italian tenor in Baroque opera (d. 1798)
- 1722Gabriel Christie, British general (d. 1799)
- 1725Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
- 1745Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal (d. 1813)
- 1777Nathan Mayer Rothschild, British financier (d. 1836)
- 1782Daoguang, Emperor of China (d. 1850)
- 1823Francis Parkman, American historian (d. 1893)
- 1827Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist (d. 1908)
- 1830Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (d. 1911)
- 1837King Pedro V of Portugal (d. 1861)
- 1844Paul Taffanel, French flautist (d. 1908)
- 1846Anna Kingsford, English doctor (d. 1888)
- 1853Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
- 1858Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1923)
- 1858Edward Marshall Hall, English barrister (d. 1927)
- 1859Yuan Shikai, Chinese politician (d. 1916)
- 1866Georg Voigt, German politician (d. 1927)
- 1875James C. Penney, American department store founder (d. 1971)
- 1877Jacob Schick, American-Canadian electric razor inventor (d. 1937)
- 1880Alfred Noyes, English poet (d. 1958)
- 1881Clive Bell, English art critic (d. 1964)
- 1883T. E. Hulme, English writer (d. 1917)
- 1886Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor and painter (d. 1966)
- 1887Nadia Boulanger, French composer and teacher (d. 1979)
- 1888Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Finnish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
- 1891Karl Dönitz, German naval leader (d. 1980)
- 1891Stephanie von Hohenlohe, Austrian-born German spy (d. 1972)
- 1893Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- 1893Alexander Korda, Hungarian film director (d. 1956)
- 1896Margaret Fitzgerald, Canadian supercentenarian (d. 2009)
- 1897Milt Franklyn, American musician (d. 1962)
- 1898H.A. Rey, American children’s author (d. 1977)
- 1899Hans Swarowsky, Austrian conductor (d. 1975)
- 1903Joe Venuti, Italian-American jazz violinist (d. 1978)
- 1905Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (d. 1980)
- 1906Jack Churchill, English soldier (d. 1996)
- 1910Erich Kempka, Adolf Hitler’s chauffeur (d. 1975)
- 1910Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003)
- 1911Paul Henning, American producer and writer (d. 2005)
- 1911Wilfred Burchett, Australian journalist (d. 1983)
- 1914Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (d. 1999)
- 1915Cy Walter, American pianist (d. 1968)
- 1916Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (d. 1999)
- 1916M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (d. 2004)
- 1916Robert Bradshaw, Saint Kitts and Nevis politician (d. 1978)
- 1918Władysław Kędra, Polish pianist (d. 1968)
- 1919Andy Russell, American popular vocalist (d. 1992)
- 1919Laurence J. Peter, Canadian born educator and writer (d. 1990)
- 1920Art Sansom, American cartoonist (The Born Loser) (d. 1991)
- 1921Jon Hendricks, American jazz singer
- 1921Korla Pandit, musician, composer, pianist, organist and television pioneer, born John Roland Redd (d. 1998)
- 1922Guy Hamilton, English film director
- 1922Janis Paige, American actress
- 1922Marcel Mouloudji, French actor and singer (d. 1994)
- 1923Lee Kuan Yew, Minister Mentor of Singapore
- 1924Lauren Bacall, American actress
- 1925B. B. King, American musician
- 1925Charles Haughey, Prime Minister of Ireland (d. 2006)
- 1925Charlie Byrd, American musician (d. 1999)
- 1926Eric Gross, Austrian-Australian composer (d. 2011)
- 1926Takao Tanabe, Canadian painter
- 1926Tommy Bond, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1927Jack Kelly, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1927Peter Falk, American actor (d. 2011)
- 1928Lady Gwen Thompson, British occultist (d. 1986)
- 1930Anne Francis, American actress (d. 2011)
- 1931Little Willie Littlefield, American R&B pianist and singer
- 1934Dick Heckstall-Smith, English jazz and blues saxophonist (d. 2004)
- 1934Elgin Baylor, American basketball player
- 1934George Chakiris, American actor
- 1934Ronnie Drew, Irish singer (d. 2008)
- 1935Billy Boy Arnold, American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
- 1935Bob Kiley, American public transit specialist
- 1935Carl Andre, American artist
- 1935Esther Vilar, German-Argentinian writer
- 1935Jules Bass, American author, producer, director and composer
- 1937Alexander Medved, Russian wrestler
- 1937Vince Naimoli, American former MLB team owner
- 1939Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer and painter
- 1940Hamiet Bluiett, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer
- 1941Richard Perle, American political advisor
- 1942Bernie Calvert, British musician (The Hollies)
- 1942Dennis Conner, American yachtsman
- 1942Tadamasa Goto, Japanese yakuza boss
- 1943James Alan McPherson, American writer
- 1944Winston Grennan, Jamaican American drummer
- 1945Pat Stevens, American actress and voice actress (d. 2010)
- 1946Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer
- 1946Cathee Dahmen, American fashion model (d. 1997)
- 1946Mike Reynolds, Australian politician
- 1947Enrique Krauze, Mexican historian and writer
- 1947Russ Abbot, British comedian
- 1948Kenney Jones, English musician (The Small Faces; Faces; The Who)
- 1948Ron Blair, American bassist
- 1948Rosemary Casals, American tennis player
- 1948Susan Ruttan, American actress
- 1949Ed Begley, Jr., American actor
- 1950David Bellamy, American guitarist and singer
- 1950Henry Louis Gates, American scholar
- 1950Loyd Grossman, American television presenter
- 1951Vince Bell, Texas singer and songwriter
- 1952Mickey Rourke, American actor
- 1953Alan Barton, English musician (Black Lace, Smokie) (d. 1995)
- 1953Eric Vail, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1953Jerry Pate, American golfer
- 1953Kurt Fuller, American actor
- 1953Nancy Huston, Canadian-born novelist and essayist
- 1954Colin Newman, English musician (Wire)
- 1954Earl Klugh, American jazz guitarist
- 1954Frank Reed, American singer (The Chi-Lites)
- 1954Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Bengali Hindustani classical sitar player
- 1954William McKeen, American author
- 1955Janet Ellis, British television presenter
- 1955Robin Yount, American baseball player
- 1955Ron Brewer, American basketball player
- 1955Yolandita Monge, Puerto Rican singer
- 1956Dave Schulthise, bass guitarist for the punk band Dead Milkmen (d. 2004)
- 1956David Copperfield, American magician
- 1957Anca Parghel, Romanian jazz singer
- 1957David McCreery, Irish footballer
- 1958Jennifer Tilly, American actress
- 1958Neville Southall, Welsh footballer
- 1958Orel Hershiser, American baseball player
- 1959Dave Richardson, former South African cricketer
- 1959Peter Keleghan, Canadian actor
- 1959Tim Raines, American baseball player
- 1959Victory Tischler-Blue, bassist and film and television producer
- 1960Danny John-Jules, British actor
- 1960Ean Evans, bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd
- 1960Graham Haynes, American cornetist, trumpeter and composer
- 1960Jayne Brook, American actress
- 1960Kurt Busiek, American comic book writer
- 1960Yianna Katsoulos, French singer
- 1961Bilinda Butcher, British singer (My Bloody Valentine)
- 1961T La Rock, American old-school emcee
- 1962Seth (cartoonist), Canadian artist & writer
- 1963Richard Marx, American singer
- 1964Dave Sabo, American musician (Skid Row)
- 1964Mary Coustas, Australian entertainer
- 1964Molly Shannon, American actress
- 1964Rossy de Palma, Spanish actress
- 1965Karl-Heinz Riedle, German footballer
- 1965Katy Kurtzman, American actress
- 1966Kevin Young, American athlete
- 1967Hiroya Oku, Japanese manga artist
- 1968Marc Anthony, American singer
- 1968Walt Becker, American director and writer
- 1969Janno Gibbs, Filipino singer
- 1969Justine Frischmann, English musician (Elastica)
- 1970Mark Schultz, American musician
- 1971Amy Poehler, American comedian (Saturday Night Live)
- 1972Erik Mana, Filipino-Canadian Magician and Mentalist
- 1972James Westman, Canadian Operatic Baritone
- 1972Mark Bruener, American football player
- 1972Shalane McCall, American actress
- 1972Sprent Dabwido, Nauruan politician
- 1973Alexander Vinokourov, Kazakh cyclist
- 1973George Corrie, English footballer
- 1973Justin Haythe, American writer
- 1974Monique Brumby, Australian Indie pop/rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
- 1975Shannon Noll, Australian singer and songwriter
- 1976Greg Buckner, American basketball player
- 1976Tina Barrett, British singer (S Club)
- 1977Greg Ball, American politician
- 1978Dan Dickau, American basketball player
- 1978Matthew Rogers, American singer
- 1979Aileen Celeste, Venezuelan actress
- 1979Bobby Korecky, American baseball player
- 1979Fanny, French singer
- 1980Patrik Stefan, Czech hockey player
- 1981Alexis Bledel, American actress (Gilmore Girls)
- 1981Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress
- 1982Leon Knight, English footballer
- 1982Michele Rizzo, Italian rugby player
- 1982Ryan Thomson, Scottish footballer
- 1983Brandon Moss, American baseball player
- 1983John Afoa, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1983Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer
- 1983Legedu Naanee, American football player
- 1984Katie Melua, Georgian/British singer
- 1984Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer (The Cheetah Girls)
- 1984Serginho, Brazilian footballer
- 1985Madeline Zima, American actress
- 1986Gordon Beckham, American baseball player
- 1986Ian Harding, American Actor
- 1986Kyla Pratt, American actress
- 1987Daren Kagasoff, American actor
- 1987Kyle Lafferty, Northern Irish Footballer
- 1987Louis Clément Ngwat-Mahop, Cameroonian football player
- 1987Travis Wall, American dancer and dance instructor
- 1988Sarah Steele, American actress
- 1988Teddy Geiger, American singer
- 1989Dustin Tokarski, Canadian ice hockey goalie
- 1991Alexandra Paul (figure skater), Canadian figure skater
- 1992Jake Roche, English actor
- 1992Nick Jonas, American singer and musician (Jonas Brothers)
- 2005Princess Jalilah bint Ali of Jordan
Who Died On September 16?
- 307Severus II, Roman Emperor
- 827Pope Valentine
- 1087Pope Victor III (b. 1026)
- 1100Bernold of Constance, German chronicler (b. 1054)
- 1345John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295)
- 1380King Charles V of France (b. 1338)
- 1394Avignon Pope Clement VII (b. 1342)
- 1406Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow (b. 1336)
- 1498Tomás de Torquemada, first grand inquisitor of Spain (b. 1420)
- 1589Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
- 1672Anne Bradstreet, American colonial poet (b. 1612)
- 1701James II of England and VII of Scotland (b. 1633)
- 1736Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (b. 1686)
- 1775Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684)
- 1782Farinelli, Italian castrato singer (b. 1705)
- 1792Quang Trung, Tay Son dynasty’s emperor of Viet Nam (b. 1753)
- 1803Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (b. 1754)
- 1819John Jeffries, American physician, balloonist, pioneer meteorologist (b. 1744)
- 1824King Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
- 1843Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur and politician, and the first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire (b. 1770)
- 1865Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (b. 1792)
- 1887Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (b. 1841)
- 1896Antônio Carlos Gomes, Brazilian composer (b. 1836)
- 1898Ramón Emeterio Betances, Puerto Rican politician, medical doctor and diplomat (b. 1827)
- 1911Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (b. 1840)
- 1925Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)
- 1925Leo Fall, Austrian operetta composer (b. 1873)
- 1932Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
- 1933George Gore, American baseball player (b. 1857)
- 1940Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, Governor of Queensland, Governor of Bombay (b. 1860)
- 1944Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
- 1945John McCormack, Irish tenor (b. 1884)
- 1946Sir James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist and astronomer (b. 1877)
- 1950Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)
- 1955L.S. Amery, British politician (b. 1873)
- 1957Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864)
- 1965Ahn Eak-tai, Korean musician, composer, and conductor (b. 1906)
- 1965Fred Quimby, American cartoon producer (b. 1886)
- 1973Víctor Jara, Chilean musician (b. 1932)
- 1975Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b. 1896)
- 1977Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947)
- 1977Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (b. 1923)
- 1978Lavrentis Dianellos, Greek actor (b. 1911)
- 1980Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
- 1984Louis Réard, French designer of the bikini (b. 1897)
- 1987Christopher Soames, Baron Soames, British politician (b. 1920)
- 1987Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (b. 1922)
- 1991Carol White, British actress (b. 1943)
- 1991Olga Spessivtseva, Russian ballerina (b. 1895)
- 1992Millicent Fenwick, American politician and writer (b. 1910)
- 1993František Jílek, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
- 1993Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian poet, aboriginal activist (b. 1920)
- 1993Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (b. 1966)
- 1996Gene Nelson, American actor (b. 1920)
- 1996McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (b. 1919)
- 2000Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969)
- 2001Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (b. 1918)
- 2002James Gregory, American actor (b. 1911)
- 2003Sheb Wooley, singer and actor (b. 1921)
- 2004Michael Donaghy Poet, (b. 1954)
- 2005Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (b. 1920)
- 2005Harry Freedman, Canadian composer and music educator (b. 1922)
- 2006Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
- 2006Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (b. 1955)
- 2007Robert Jordan, author of the Wheel of Time series (b. 1948)
- 2008Norman Whitfield, associated with the Temptations (b. 1940)
- 2009Ernst Märzendorfer, Austrian conductor (b. 1921)
- 2009Mary Travers, American singer (Peter, Paul, and Mary) (b. 1936)
- 2009Myles Brand, NCAA President (b. 1942)
- 2010George N. Parks, director of the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band (b. 1953)
- 2010Jim Towers, English footballer (b. 1933)
- 2010Richard Livsey, Welsh Liberal Democrat politician (b.1935)
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