According to Gregory calendar, on September 16, the day number in a year is 260 and if it is a leap year then the day number is 261. September 16 has a special significance in India and world history, because many such incidents have occurred on this day which have been recorded forever in the pages of history. Let's know some such important events which will increase your general knowledge. The facts collected will be as follows: People born on this day, demise of famous people, war treaty, freedom of any country, invention of new technologies, change of power, important National and International Day etc.
Important Historical Events of 16 September in the World ⚡
Event Year | Incident/Event |
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1400 | Owen Glinder was declared the Prince of Wales and instigated against the rule of Henry IV in England. |
1702 | John Churchill was forced to surrender Venlo on the River Meuse. |
1725 | Treaty of Hanover; Signed between Great Britain, France and Prussia. |
1729 | William K. H. Friso was made Viceroy of the city of Groningen. |
1747 | French troops captured Zoom and Bergen. |
1776 | The American revolutionary war-but British soldiers seem to be a fox, hearing the voice of their buglas, the American colonists captured their grounds and won a victory in the Battle of Harlem Heightsin, the present New York City. |
1782 | The Great Seal of the United States was used for the first time. |
1795 | British forces captured Cape Town from the Netherlands. |
1810 | Spain acquires independence from Spain after 300 years of Spain's colonial rule. |
1810 | Palli priest Miguel Hidalgo at Dolores, Guanajuato, brought Grito de Dolorus to his congregation, which provoked freedom of Mexican war against Spain. |
1821 | Mexico's independence was recognized. |
1824 | Charles succeeded his brother Louis XVIII as the king of tenth France. |
1840 | Hand-drawn works and papers relating to the Joseph Strud Derby Arboretum), which became England's first public park. |
1848 | France, based in Western Europe, abolished slavery in all its colonies. |
1861 | Savings Bank opened in British Post Office. |
1892 | The first woman took admission to Yale University to graduate. |
1906 | Roald Emundson of Norway discovered the magnetic south pole. |
1908 | William Crepo Billy founded the automobile manufacturer General Motors. |
1916 | Classical singer and actress MS awarded the Bharat Ratna, the country's largest civilian honor. Subbalakshmi was born. |
1920 | A bomb killed 38 people on Wall Street and injured more than 400. The mystery was never resolved, but it was widely considered to be the work of radical anarchists. |
1932 | Mahatma Gandhi started his hunger strike in efforts to end the new Birti caste separation laws. |
1940 | World War I Italy captured the city of Sidi Bairani, the Egyptian Bataheer invasion did not carry forward. |
1941 | Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran was forced in favor of Mohammad Raza Pahlavi's son. |
1947 | 1,930 people were killed by cyclone Kathleen in Saitama, Japan's capital. |
1956 | Television broadcasting began in Australia. |
1959 | Haloid Zerox started the Xerox 914, the first physician, which was invented by American physicist Cheris Carlson. |
1961 | The United States 'National Hurricane Research Project Safeto weakened Hurricane Eicher by irrigating with silver iodide, establishing the project Stormfuri. |
1963 | Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (present Saba), and Sarwak merged into Malaysia. |
1966 | In South Vietnam, Thich Tri Quang ended a 100-day hunger strike. |
1967 | The Soviet Union conducted a nuclear test in eastern Kazakh. |
1975 | Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia. |
1975 | Australia liberated Papua New Guinea. |
1978 | The 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Tabar, Iran, killed 25,000 people. |
1978 | General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq officially assumed the presidency of Pakistan. |
1978 | 7.7 Earthquake of Magnitude, Iran. It killed more than 20,000 people and dropped the city to the ground. The rescue operations continue in the hope of finding the remaining people which are buried under the rubble but can still be alive. |
1986 | 177 people died after being trapped in a gold mine in South Africa. |
1987 | The Montreal Protocol is an international treaty, which has manufactured the ozone layer by phasing out the production of several stages for ozone vacancies. |
1990 | The construction of the Northern Zinjiang Railway was completed between QIRUMQI and Alashankou to connect the railway lines of China and Kazakhstan and to connect a large portion to the Eurasian Land Bridge. |
1994 | Britain banned the transmission of Northern Ireland to Sinn Féin and paramilitary groups. |
1997 | Steve Jobs Apple returns to the computer, which he installed to run the company temporarily while searching for a permanent leader. |
2003 | The Federal Reserve will keep the interest rates at the current 45 -year low at 1% as the core inflation is less than 37% 1.3%. |
2005 | Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has expressed displeasure among the people, describing the rape victims in Pakistan as part of the 'worry of earning money'. |
2007 | The plane crashed in Thailand killing 89 people. |
2010 | The poverty rate in the United States reached a 15 -year high of 14.3 percent, which is equivalent to about 43.6 million people. |
2011 | NASA scientists enthusiastically announced the discovery of a circumference-binary planet. A planet that revolves around two stars instead of one. |
2014 | The Islamic State waged war against Syrian Kurdish fighters. |
2014 | Russian tycoon and billionaire Vladimir Vaytushenkov is kept |
Important Historical Events of 16 September in India ⚡
Event Year | Incident/Event |
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Important Days of 16 September National & International Days 🏁
Day/Observance | Level |
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World Ozone Day | International Day |
International Day for Interventional Cardiology | International Day |
International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer | International Day |
International Coastal Cleanup Day | International Day |
Mexico Cry of Dolores Grito de Dolores Día de la Independéncia | National Day |
Papua New Guinea Independence Day | National Day |
Famous People's Birthdays on 16 September 😀
Birth Year | Name/Category/Country |
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1916 | M S Subbulakshmi / Singer / India |
1910 | Cheppudira Muthana Poonacha / Politician / India |
1916 | M. S. Subbulakshmi / Singer / India |
1916 | Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi / Vocalist / India |
1954 | Sanjoy Bandopadhyay / Composer / India |
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