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 259th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 106 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 3, 2023 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 470,784 hours 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 147 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 3,921 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 16 Historical Events
- 1701 –James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the “Old Pretender”, becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
- 1779 –American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
- 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.
- 1893 –Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
- 1920 –The 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.
- 1941 –World 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.
- 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.
- 1975 –The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
- 2005 –The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro gets arrested in Naples, Italy.
Who were born on September 16?
- 1782 –Daoguang, Emperor of China (d. 1850)
- 1880 –Alfred Noyes, English poet (d. 1958)
- 1899 –Hans Swarowsky, Austrian conductor (d. 1975)
- 1922 –Marcel Mouloudji, French actor and singer (d. 1994)
- 1924 –Lauren Bacall, American actress
- 1934 –Dick Heckstall-Smith, English jazz and blues saxophonist (d. 2004)
- 1950 –Loyd Grossman, American television presenter
- 1958 –Jennifer Tilly, American actress
- 1960 –Graham Haynes, American cornetist, trumpeter and composer
- 1972 –Shalane McCall, American actress
Who died on September 16?
- 1589 –Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513)
- 1940 –Charles Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington, Governor of Queensland, Governor of Bombay (b. 1860)
- 1944 –Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870)
- 1977 –Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947)
- 1991 –Olga Spessivtseva, Russian ballerina (b. 1895)
- 1992 –Millicent Fenwick, American politician and writer (b. 1910)
- 2008 –Norman Whitfield, associated with the Temptations (b. 1940)
- 2009 –Ernst Märzendorfer, Austrian conductor (b. 1921)
- 2009 –Mary Travers, American singer (Peter, Paul, and Mary) (b. 1936)
- 2010 –George N. Parks, director of the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band (b. 1953)
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