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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