What happened this day in history September 16

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 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.

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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 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.

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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)

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