About September 16
September 16, 2025 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.
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Virgo is the sun 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.
What Happened On September 16
- 307 –Severus II is captured and imprisoned at Tres Tabernae. He is later executed (or forced to commit suicide) after Emperor Galerius unsuccessfully invades Italy.
- 1701 –James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the “Old Pretender”, becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1863 –Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.
- 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.
- 1940 –World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
- 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.
- 1947 –Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, at least 1,930 killed.
- 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.
- 1970 –King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule following the hijacking of four civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This results in the formation of the Black September Palestinian paramilitary unit.
- 1975 –Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
- 1975 –The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
- 1978 –An earthquake measuring 7.5 to 7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people.
- 1990 –The railroad between the People’s Republic of China and Kazakhstan becomes complete at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
- 1991 –The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
- 2005 –The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro gets arrested in Naples, Italy.
- 2007 –One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
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