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
- 307 –Severus II is captured and imprisoned at Tres Tabernae. He is later executed (or forced to commit suicide) after Emperor Galerius unsuccessfully invades Italy.
- 1400 –Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.
- 1620 –The Mayflower starts her voyage to North America
- 1701 –James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the “Old Pretender”, becomes the Jacobite claimant to the thrones of England and Scotland.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
- 1779 –American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
- 1893 –Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
- 1919 –The American Legion is incorporated.
- 1920 –The Wall Street bombing: a bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City – 38 are killed and 400 injured.
- 1947 –Typhoon Kathleen hits Saitama, Tokyo and Tone River area, at least 1,930 killed.
- 1959 –The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1982 –Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
- 1991 –The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega begins in the United States.
- 1992 –Black Wednesday: the Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.
- 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.
- 2007 –One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.
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