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What are the important events that happened on September 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 16: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 16 is the 260th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 106 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 3, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,774,080 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectahexacontagon’ day.
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Virgo is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 135 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,287 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 16 Historical Events
- 307 –Severus II is captured and imprisoned at Tres Tabernae. He is later executed (or forced to commit suicide) after Emperor Galerius unsuccessfully invades Italy.
- 1893 –Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
- 1919 –The American Legion is incorporated.
- 1961 –The 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.
- 1990 –The 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.
Who were born on September 16?
- 1934 –George Chakiris, American actor
- 1964 –Rossy de Palma, Spanish actress
- 1970 –Mark Schultz, American musician
- 1984 –Sabrina Bryan, American actress and singer (The Cheetah Girls)
- 1989 –Dustin Tokarski, Canadian ice hockey goalie
Who died on September 16?
- 1498 –Tomás de Torquemada, first grand inquisitor of Spain (b. 1420)
- 1843 –Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur and politician, and the first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire (b. 1770)
- 1945 –John McCormack, Irish tenor (b. 1884)
- 1955 –L.S. Amery, British politician (b. 1873)
- 2010 –George N. Parks, director of the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band (b. 1953)
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