What are the important events that happened on September 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

September 16: Facts & Myths About This Day

September 16 is the 259^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 3, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 488,328 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectapentacontaenneagon’ day.

Virgo is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,652 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 16 Historical Events

• 1779 –
  American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of Savannah begins.
• 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.
• 1908 –
  The General Motors Corporation is founded.
• 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.
• 1971 –
  Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
• 1975 –
  The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and Sao Tome and Principe join the United Nations.
• 1982 –
  Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon.
• 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.

Who were born on September 16?

• 1846 –
  Anna Kingsford, English doctor (d. 1888)
• 1916 –
  Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (d. 1999)
• 1925 –
  Charles Haughey, Prime Minister of Ireland (d. 2006)
• 1934 –
  Dick Heckstall-Smith, English jazz and blues saxophonist (d. 2004)
• 1947 –
  Enrique Krauze, Mexican historian and writer
• 1948 –
  Susan Ruttan, American actress
• 1962 –
  Seth (cartoonist), Canadian artist & writer
• 1973 –
  George Corrie, English footballer
• 1976 –
  Tina Barrett, British singer (S Club)
• 1979 –
  Aileen Celeste, Venezuelan actress

Who died on September 16?

• 1824 –
  King Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755)
• 1925 –
  Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888)
• 1933 –
  George Gore, American baseball player (b. 1857)
• 1957 –
  Qi Baishi, Chinese painter (b. 1864)
• 1977 –
  Maria Callas, Greek-American soprano (b. 1923)
• 1984 –
  Louis Réard, French designer of the bikini (b. 1897)
• 1991 –
  Olga Spessivtseva, Russian ballerina (b. 1895)
• 1992 –
  Millicent Fenwick, American politician and writer (b. 1910)
• 2005 –
  Harry Freedman, Canadian composer and music educator (b. 1922)
• 2010 –
  Richard Livsey, Welsh Liberal Democrat politician (b.1935)