Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on September 16 throughout history.
The Let Yet Kone massacre was a mass killing of civilians on 16 September 2022, at a monastic school in the village of Let Yet Kone, near Tabayin in Sagaing Region, in north-weste…
During the Let Yet Kone massacre, the Burmese military kills 13 villagers, including eight children, after attacking a…
On 16 September 2022, 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also known as Jina Amini, died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances. The Guidance Pat…
The death of Mahsa Amini occurred in Tehran, Iran, sparking worldwide protests.
The 2021 Luxian earthquake was a damaging seismic event occurring in the early hours of September 16 at 04:33 China Standard Time. The surface-wave magnitude (Ms) 6.0 or moment ma…
A 6.0 Mw earthquake strikes Lu County, Sichuan, China, killing three and injuring more than 88.
Inspiration4 was a 2021 human spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman. The mission launched the Crew Dragon Resilience on September 16, 2021…
Inspiration4, the first private orbital crewed spaceflight, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
The 2015 Illapel earthquake occurred 46 km (29 mi) offshore from Illapel on 16 September 2015 at 19:54:32 Chile Standard Time (22:54:32 UTC), with a moment magnitude of 8.3–8.4. T…
A 8.3 Mw earthquake strikes the Chilean city of Illapel, killing 15 people, injuring at least 34, leaving at least six…
The siege of Kobanî was launched by the Islamic State (IS) on 13 September 2014, in order to capture the Kobanî Canton and its main city of Kobanî in northern Syria, in the de fac…
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant launches its Kobani offensive against Syrian–Kurdish forces.
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 headquart…
A gunman kills twelve people at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.
One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 (OG269/OTG269) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Bangkok to Phuket, Thailand. On 16 September 2007, about 15:41 ICT, the McDonnell Doug…
One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269 carrying 130 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand, killing 90 people.
The Nisour Square massacre occurred on September 16, 2007, when employees of Blackwater Security Consulting, which was a private military company contracted by the United States g…
Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.
The Camorra is an Italian Mafia-type criminal organization and criminal society originating in the region of Campania. It is one of the oldest and largest criminal organizations i…
The Camorra organized crime boss Paolo Di Lauro is arrested in Naples, Italy.
Hurricane Ivan was a large, long-lived, and devastating tropical cyclone that caused widespread damage in the Caribbean and United States. The ninth named storm, the sixth hurrica…
Hurricane Ivan makes landfall in Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufactur…
Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on STS-79 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
From October 1988 to September 1994 the British government banned broadcasts of the voices of representatives from Sinn Féin and ten other Irish republican and loyalist groups on …
The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups…
Manuel Antonio Noriega Moreno was a Panamanian military officer and politician who was the de facto ruler of Panama from 1983 to 1989. He never officially served as president of P…
The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ends in the United States with a 40-year sentence for drug…
Black Wednesday, or the 1992 sterling crisis, was a financial crisis that occurred on 16 September 1992 when the UK Government was forced to withdraw pound sterling (GBP) from the…
Black Wednesday: The British pound is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and…
Dostyk or Druzhba is a small town in Kazakhstan's Jetisu Region, on the border with Xinjiang, China. It is a port of entry from China. The rail portion serves as an important link…
The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to…
The Montreal Protocol, officially the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, is an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out t…
The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.
The 1982 Lebanon War, also called the Second Israeli invasion of Lebanon, began on 6 June 1982, when Israel invaded southern Lebanon. The invasion followed a series of attacks and…
Lebanon War: The Sabra and Shatila massacre in Lebanon takes place.
On 16 September 1979, eight people from two families escaped from East Germany by crossing the border into West Germany at night in a homemade hot air balloon. The unique feat was…
Eight people escape from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.
The 1978 Tabas earthquake occurred on September 16 at 19:05:55 local time in central Iran. The shock measured 7.4 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum Mercalli intensit…
The 7.4 Mw Tabas earthquake affects the city of Tabas, Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). At…