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September 16 is the 259th day of the year (260th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 106 days remain until the end of the year. Events [ edit ] Pre-1600 [ edit ]
16 September 2024. ( 2024-09-16) Frequency. Annual. First time. 1994. International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer (informally and simply called Ozone Day) is celebrated on September 16 designed by the United Nations General Assembly. [1] This designation had been made on December 19, 2000, in commemoration of the date, in 1987, on ...
The Wall Street bombing was an act of terrorism on Wall Street at 12:01 pm on Thursday, September 16, 1920. The blast killed 30 people immediately, and another 10 later died of wounds that they sustained in the blast. There were 143 seriously injured, and the total number of injured was in the hundreds. [2] : 160–61 [3]
Unknown. The Washington Navy Yard shooting occurred on September 16, 2013, when 34-year-old Aaron Alexis fatally shot 12 people and injured three others in a mass shooting at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) inside the Washington Navy Yard in southeast Washington, D.C. The attack took place in the Navy Yard's Building ...
Waiting For the Strip To Open Mar. 1st, 1893. The Land Run itself began at noon on September 16, 1893, with an estimated 100,000 participants hoping to stake claim to part of the 6 million acres and 40,000 homesteads on what had formerly been Cherokee grazing land. It would be Oklahoma's fourth and largest land run. [4] [5]
1974 – Julian Castro, American lawyer and politician, 16th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; 1975 – Jason Leffler, American race car driver (d. 2013) 1976 – Greg Buckner, American basketball player and coach; 1977 – Gregory Ball, American captain and politician; 1977 – Musiq Soulchild, American singer-songwriter
The following day, September 16, is Mexico's Independence Day, while Chile celebrates their independence on September 18, and Belize on September 21. The Church of San Andrés Xecul in Guatemala ...
Malaysia Day ( Malay: Hari Malaysia) is a public holiday held on 16 September every year to commemorate the establishment of the Malaysian federation on that date in 1963. This event saw Malaya, North Borneo (which was renamed Sabah), Sarawak, and Singapore unite into a single state. Singapore, however, was expelled from the federation less ...