Tukuk-OS📅 September 16
16 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on September 16? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2013 — A lone gunman fatally shot twelve people and injured three others at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.
- 2007 — Seventeen Iraqi civilians were shot and killed by Academi guards in Baghdad.
- 2007 — One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 crashed after attempting a poorly executed go-around while landing in Thailand, killing 90 of the 130 people on board.
- 1992 — The British pound (coin pictured) was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday and suffered a major devaluation.
Pound sterlingEuropean Exchange Rate MechanismBlack Wednesday
- 1989 — During a tour of the United States, Soviet politician Boris Yeltsin visited a grocery store in Texas that had a major impact on his views regarding the Soviet Union's economic system.
Boris Yeltsin1989 visit by Boris Yeltsin to the United States
- 1982 — A Lebanese militia under the direct command of Elie Hobeika carried out a massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila, killing at least 460 civilians.
- 1979 — Eight people escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a home-made hot air balloon.
- 1975 — The prototype of the Soviet Mikoyan MiG-31, one of the fastest combat jets in the world, made its maiden flight.
- 1963 — Malaysia was formed as an independent nation from the Federation of Malaya, the State of Singapore, the Crown Colony of North Borneo, and the Crown Colony of Sarawak.
- 1961 — The U.S. National Hurricane Research Project sought to weaken Hurricane Esther by seeding it with silver iodide, leading to the establishment of Project Stormfury.
National Hurricane Research ProjectHurricane EstherCloud seeding
- 1961 — Typhoon Nancy (pictured), which possibly had the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, made landfall in Muroto, Japan.
- 1940 — Second World War: Italian forces captured the town of Sidi Barrani, but their invasion of Egypt progressed no further.
- 1920 — A bomb in a horse-drawn wagon exploded in front of 23 Wall Street in New York City, killing 38 people and injuring several hundred others.
- 1844 — Felix Mendelssohn completed the score of his Violin Concerto, his final concerto.
- 1776 — American Revolutionary War: American colonists defeated British troops at the Battle of Harlem Heights on the island of Manhattan.
- 681 — Pope Honorius I was posthumously excommunicated at the Third Council of Constantinople, with his support for monothelitism deemed to be heretical.
Pope Honorius IExcommunicationThird Council of Constantinople
Births
- 2003 — Ryan Couchman, Australian rugby league player
- 2003 — Toby Couchman, Australian rugby league player
- 2001 — Avishag Semberg, Israeli Olympic taekwondo bronze medalist
- 2000 — Sam Howell, American football player
- 2000 — Oliver Skipp, English footballer
- 1999 — Brady Tkachuk, American ice hockey player
- 1997 — Clint Ratkovich, American football player
- 1997 — Anairis Quiñones, American voice actress
- 1997 — Jackie Young, American basketball player
- 1995 — Aaron Gordon, American basketball player
- 1994 — Anthony Mantha, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1994 — Aleksandar Mitrović, Serbian footballer
Deaths
- 2026 — Randy Pedersen, American bowler and sportscaster (born 1962)
- 2025 — Robert Redford, American actor, producer and director (born 1936)
- 2024 — Song Binbin, Chinese revolutionary (born 1947)
- 2021 — Jane Powell, American actress (born 1929)
- 2021 — Clive Sinclair, English entrepreneur and inventor (born 1940)
- 2020 — Maxim Martsinkevich, Russian social activist and media personality (born 1984)
- 2019 — H. S. Dillon, Indonesian politician and human rights defender (born 1945)
- 2018 — James Burdette Thayer, American brigadier general (born 1920)
- 2017 — Marcelo Rezende, Brazilian journalist (born 1951)
- 2017 — Arjan Singh, Marshal of the Indian Air Force (born 1919)
- 2016 — Tarık Akan, Turkish actor, director and activist (born 1949)
- 2016 — Edward Albee, American director and playwright (born 1928)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day: Andrew Kim Taegon
- Christian feast day: Curcodomus
- Christian feast day: Cornelius and Cyprian (Catholic Church)
- Christian feast day: Edith of Wilton
- Christian feast day: Euphemia
- Christian feast day: John Macias
- Christian feast day: Ludmila
- Christian feast day: Ninian
- Christian feast day: Pope Cornelius
- Christian feast day: Vitalis of Savigny
- Christian feast day: September 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
- Cry of Dolores, celebrates the declaration of independence of Mexico from Spain in 1810. See Fiestas Patrias
- Independence Day (Papua New Guinea), celebrates the independence of Papua New Guinea from Australia in 1975.
- International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
- Malaysian Armed Forces Day (Malaysia)
- Malaysia Day (Malaysia)
- Martyrs' Day (Libya)
- National Heroes Day (Saint Kitts and Nevis)
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