About September 16
September 16, 2023 is the 259th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 106 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 147 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.
- 1620 –The Mayflower starts her voyage to North America
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1975 –The first prototype of the MiG-31 interceptor makes its maiden flight.
- 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.
- 1980 –Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the United Nations.
- 1987 –The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
- 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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