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
- 1400 –Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
- 1779 –American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1908 –The General Motors Corporation is founded.
- 1919 –The American Legion is incorporated.
- 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.
- 1963 –Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves this new country,
- 1966 –The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber’s opera, Antony and Cleopatra.
- 1971 –Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
- 1975 –Papua New Guinea gains its independence from Australia.
- 1975 –The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
- 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 –Mercenaries working for Blackwater Worldwide allegedly shoot and kill 17 Iraqi civilians in Nisour Square, Baghdad; all criminal charges against them are later dismissed, sparking outrage in the Arab world.
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