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

• 1779 –
  American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
• 1795 –
  The 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.
• 1880 –
  The 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.
• 1919 –
  The American Legion is incorporated.
• 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.
• 1959 –
  The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
• 1975 –
  The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe join the United Nations.
• 1991 –
  The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
• 1992 –
  Black 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.
• 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.

Who were born on September 16?

• 1853 –
  Albrecht Kossel, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1927)
• 1893 –
  Alexander Korda, Hungarian film director (d. 1956)
• 1939 –
  Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer and painter
• 1944 –
  Winston Grennan, Jamaican American drummer
• 1947 –
  Enrique Krauze, Mexican historian and writer
• 1952 –
  Mickey Rourke, American actor
• 1958 –
  Jennifer Tilly, American actress
• 1959 –
  Dave Richardson, former South African cricketer
• 1961 –
  T La Rock, American old-school emcee
• 1971 –
  Amy Poehler, American comedian (Saturday Night Live)

Who died on September 16?

• 1701 –
  James II of England and VII of Scotland (b. 1633)
• 1736 –
  Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (b. 1686)
• 1782 –
  Farinelli, Italian castrato singer (b. 1705)
• 1925 –
  Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)
• 1950 –
  Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881)
• 1965 –
  Ahn Eak-tai, Korean musician, composer, and conductor (b. 1906)
• 1987 –
  Christopher Soames, Baron Soames, British politician (b. 1920)
• 1996 –
  McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (b. 1919)
• 2001 –
  Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (b. 1918)
• 2010 –
  Richard Livsey, Welsh Liberal Democrat politician (b.1935)