Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 16
This is a list of selected September 16 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Mexico (1810) and Papua New Guinea (1975) | Mexico: unreferenced section; PNG: section outdated, unreferenced section |
| Malaysia Day (1963) | too much unreferenced |
| 1400 – Owain Glyndŵr was proclaimed Prince of Wales and instigated a revolt against the rule of Henry IV of England. | Owain: refimprove section; Rising: refimprove |
| 1701 – James Francis Edward Stuart, nicknamed the "Old Pretender", became the Jacobite claimant to the English and Scottish thrones. | too much unreferenced |
| 1810 – Miguel Hidalgo, the parish priest in Dolores, Guanajuato, delivered the Cry of Dolores to his congregation, instigating the Mexican War of Independence against Spain. | unreferenced section |
| 1863 – Robert College, the first American educational institution outside the United States, was founded in Istanbul. | unreferenced section |
| 1941 – Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran was forced to abdicate in favour of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. | refimprove section |
| 1943 – World War II: Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the German 10th Army, decided to withdraw his troops from Salerno, concluding the Allied invasion of Italy. | unreferenced section |
| 1987 – The Montreal Protocol, an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of a number of substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion, opened for signature. | refimprove section |
| 2005 – Paolo Di Lauro, the head of the Di Lauro clan in the Italian crime organization the Camorra, was arrested and later sentenced to 30 years in prison for drug trafficking. | too much unreferenced |
| 2007 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269, carrying 128 crew and passengers, crashed at Phuket International Airport, Thailand, killing 89 people. | multiple issues |
| Pandulf Verraccio |d|1226| | Unref section |
Eligible
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: American colonists defeated British troops at the Battle of Harlem Heights (depicted) on the island of Manhattan.
- 1822 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences, reported a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as we now call it) is stress-induced birefringence.
- 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.
- 1940 – Second World War: Italian forces captured the town of Sidi Barrani, but their invasion of Egypt progressed no further.
- 1961 – Typhoon Nancy, which possibly had the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, made landfall in Muroto, Japan.
- 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.
- 1963 – Malaysia was formed as an independent nation from the Federation of Malaya, the Colony of Singapore, the Crown Colony of North Borneo, and the Crown Colony of Sarawak.
- 1975 – The prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 (example pictured), one of the fastest combat jets in the world, made its maiden flight.
- 1979 – Eight people escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a home-made hot air balloon.
- 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.
- 1992 – The British pound was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday, and suffered a major devaluation.
- 2007 – Seventeen Iraqi civilians were shot and killed by Academi guards in Baghdad.
- 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.
- Born/died: | Philip III of Navarre |d|1343| Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit |d|1736| Mikhail Kutuzov |b|1745| Louis XVIII |d|1824| Miriam Benjamin |b|1861| Nadia Boulanger |b|1887| Lauren Bacall |b|1924| Karen Muir |b|1952| Ahn Eak-tai |d|1965 Louis Réard |d|1984| Katie Melua |b|1984| Millicent Fenwick |d|1992
Western terminus of the Northern Xinjiang railway
- 681 – At the Third Council of Constantinople, Pope Honorius I was posthumously excommunicated, with his support for monothelitism deemed to be heretical.
- 1844 – Felix Mendelssohn completed the score of his Violin Concerto, his final concerto.
- 1979 – Eight people escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a home-made hot air balloon.
- 1990 – Construction of the Northern Xinjiang railway (terminus pictured) was completed between Ürümqi South and Alashankou, linking the railway lines of China and Kazakhstan and adding a sizeable portion to the Eurasian Land Bridge.
- Vitalis of Savigny (d. 1122)
- Elisabeth Bagréeff-Speransky (b. 1799)
- Vesta Tilley (d. 1952)
- Louis Ngwat-Mahop (b. 1987)
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