About September 16
September 16, 2024 is the 260th 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.
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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 135 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 16
- 1701 –James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the “Old Pretender”, becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
- 1810 –With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins Mexico’s fight for independence from Spain.
- 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.
- 1919 –The American Legion is incorporated.
- 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.
- 1947 –Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, at least 1,930 killed.
- 1955 –Juan Perón is deposed as the ruler of Argentina.
- 1959 –The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
- 1963 –Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, British North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves this new country,
- 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 Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe join the United Nations.
- 1976 –Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
- 1980 –Saint Vincent and the Grenadines join the United Nations.
- 1982 –Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
- 1987 –The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
- 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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