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 260^th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 106 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 3, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 28,774,080 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 ‘dihectahexacontagon’ 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 135 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 4,287 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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.
• 1810 –
  With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain.
• 1812 –
  The Fire of Moscow (1812) begins shortly after midnight and destroys three quarters of the city days later.
• 1893 –
  Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
• 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.
• 1955 –
  Juan Perón is deposed as the ruler of Argentina.
• 1961 –
  The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
• 1971 –
  Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
• 1980 –
  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the United Nations.

Who were born on September 16?

• 1830 –
  Patrick Francis Moran, Irish-Australian cardinal (d. 1911)
• 1922 –
  Marcel Mouloudji, French actor and singer (d. 1994)
• 1935 –
  Jules Bass, American author, producer, director and composer
• 1960 –
  Ean Evans, bassist for Lynyrd Skynyrd
• 1964 –
  Mary Coustas, Australian entertainer
• 1964 –
  Molly Shannon, American actress
• 1972 –
  Mark Bruener, American football player
• 1974 –
  Monique Brumby, Australian Indie pop/rock singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
• 1985 –
  Madeline Zima, American actress
• 1991 –
  Alexandra Paul (figure skater), Canadian figure skater

Who died on September 16?

• 1100 –
  Bernold of Constance, German chronicler (b. 1054)
• 1498 –
  Tomás de Torquemada, first grand inquisitor of Spain (b. 1420)
• 1672 –
  Anne Bradstreet, American colonial poet (b. 1612)
• 1803 –
  Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (b. 1754)
• 1932 –
  Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857)
• 1965 –
  Ahn Eak-tai, Korean musician, composer, and conductor (b. 1906)
• 1977 –
  Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947)
• 1980 –
  Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
• 1993 –
  Rok Petrovič, Slovenian skier (b. 1966)
• 2010 –
  George N. Parks, director of the University of Massachusetts Minuteman Marching Band (b. 1953)