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 259^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 106 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 3, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,757,980,800 seconds 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 ‘dihectapentacontaenneagon’ day.

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 154 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 4,652 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 16 Historical Events

• 1400 –
  Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
• 1810 –
  With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain.
• 1943 –
  World 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.
• 1945 –
  World War II: The surrender of the Japanese troops in Hong Kong. The surrender is accepted by the Royal Navy Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt.
• 1947 –
  Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, at least 1,930 killed.
• 1963 –
  Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves this new country,
• 1971 –
  Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
• 1978 –
  An earthquake measuring 7.5 to 7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people.
• 2007 –
  Mercenaries 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.
• 2007 –
  One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.

Who were born on September 16?

• 16 –
  Drusilla, daughter of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder (d. 38)
• 1725 –
  Nicolas Desmarest, French geologist (d. 1815)
• 1926 –
  Tommy Bond, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1935 –
  Billy Boy Arnold, American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter
• 1935 –
  Esther Vilar, German-Argentinian writer
• 1954 –
  Sanjoy Bandopadhyay, Bengali Hindustani classical sitar player
• 1981 –
  Fan Bingbing, Chinese actress
• 1983 –
  Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean Olympic swimmer
• 1987 –
  Kyle Lafferty, Northern Irish Footballer
• 1988 –
  Sarah Steele, American actress

Who died on September 16?

• 307 –
  Severus II, Roman Emperor
• 1672 –
  Anne Bradstreet, American colonial poet (b. 1612)
• 1843 –
  Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur and politician, and the first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire (b. 1770)
• 1932 –
  Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
• 1950 –
  Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)
• 1965 –
  Fred Quimby, American cartoon producer (b. 1886)
• 1977 –
  Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (b. 1923)
• 1996 –
  Gene Nelson, American actor (b. 1920)
• 2005 –
  Gordon Gould, inventor of the laser (b. 1920)
• 2010 –
  George N. Parks, director of the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band (b. 1953)