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, 29,299,680 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 ‘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.
• 1776 –
  American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
• 1863 –
  Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
• 1919 –
  The American Legion is incorporated.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1959 –
  The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
• 1976 –
  Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
• 1978 –
  An earthquake measuring 7.5 to 7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people.
• 1991 –
  The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.

Who were born on September 16?

• 1782 –
  Daoguang, Emperor of China (d. 1850)
• 1893 –
  Alexander Korda, Hungarian film director (d. 1956)
• 1896 –
  Margaret Fitzgerald, Canadian supercentenarian (d. 2009)
• 1898 –
  H.A. Rey, American children’s author (d. 1977)
• 1926 –
  Eric Gross, Austrian-Australian composer (d. 2011)
• 1935 –
  Esther Vilar, German-Argentinian writer
• 1960 –
  Danny John-Jules, British actor
• 1967 –
  Hiroya Oku, Japanese manga artist
• 1973 –
  Justin Haythe, American writer
• 1987 –
  Daren Kagasoff, American actor

Who died on September 16?

• 307 –
  Severus II, Roman Emperor
• 1803 –
  Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (b. 1754)
• 1843 –
  Ezekiel Hart, Canadian entrepreneur and politician, and the first Jew to be elected to public office in the British Empire (b. 1770)
• 1887 –
  Sakaigawa Namiemon, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna (b. 1841)
• 1933 –
  George Gore, American baseball player (b. 1857)
• 1957 –
  Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864)
• 1977 –
  Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947)
• 2004 –
  Michael Donaghy Poet, (b. 1954)
• 2010 –
  George N. Parks, director of the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band (b. 1953)
• 2010 –
  Jim Towers, English footballer (b. 1933)