SomeFacts | September 16

On this day - September 16

681 — Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth ...

1400 — Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers.

1620 — Pilgrims set sail for Virginia from Plymouth, England in the ...

1701 — James Francis Edward Stuart, sometimes called the "Old ...

1732 — In Campo Maior, Portugal, a storm hits the Armory and a ...

1776 — American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is ...

1779 — American Revolutionary War: The Franco-American Siege of ...

1810 — With the Grito de Dolores, Father Miguel Hidalgo begins ...

1822 — French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" ...

1863 — Robert College, in Istanbul, the first American educational ...

1880 — The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New ...

1893 — Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip ...

1908 — The General Motors Corporation is founded.

1914 — World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.

1920 — The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in ...

1940 — World War II: Italian troops conquer Sidi Barrani.

1943 — World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no ...

1945 — World War II: The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong comes to an ...

1953 — American Airlines Flight 723 crashes in Colonie, New York, ...

1955 — A Soviet Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ...

1955 — The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina ...

1956 — TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to ...

1959 — The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced ...

1961 — Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research ...

1961 — Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured ...

1961 — The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops ...

1963 — Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, ...

1966 — The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New ...

1970 — King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine ...

1975 — The first prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor makes ...

1975 — Cape Verde, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the ...

1975 — Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.

1976 — Night of the Pencils: In the city of La Plata, Argentina, a ...

1976 — Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people ...

1978 — The 7.4 Mw Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran ...

1979 — Eight people escape from East Germany to the west in a ...

1982 — Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes ...

1987 — The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer ...

1990 — The railroad between the People's Republic of China and ...

1992 — Black Wednesday: The British pound is forced out of the ...

1992 — The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ...

1994 — The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed ...

1996 — Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-79 to dock with the ...

2004 — Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a ...

2005 — The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in ...

2007 — Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and ...

2007 — One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 carrying 130 crew and ...

2013 — A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard in ...

2014 — The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani ...

2015 — A 8.3 Mw earthquake strikes the Chilean city of Illapel, ...

2021 — Inspiration4, the first private orbital crewed spaceflight, is ...

2021 — A 6.0 Mw earthquake strikes Lu County, Sichuan, China, killing ...

2022 — The death of Mahsa Amini occurred in Tehran, Iran, sparking ...

2022 — During the Let Yet Kone massacre, the Burmese military kills ...