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
- 1620 –The Mayflower starts her voyage to North America
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
- 1779 –American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: Concerned that Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
- 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.
- 1959 –The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1978 –An earthquake measuring 7.5 to 7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people.
- 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.
- 2005 –The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro gets arrested in Naples, Italy.
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