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

  • 1776 –
    American Revolutionary War: the Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.
  • 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.
  • 1908 –
    The General Motors Corporation is founded.
  • 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.
  • 1940 –
    World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1976 –
    Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from the trolleybus that had fallen into Erevan reservoir.
  • 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.
  • 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 –
    One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.

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