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Person born on September 16
1880 - Alfred Noyce - English poet, short-story writer, British author, poet, and playwright.
1882 - Balwant Singh - Indian freedom fighter.
1893 - Shyamlal Gupta 'Councillor' - author of the flag song 'Vijay Vishwa Tiranga Pyara'.
1916 - M. S. Subbulakshmi - Famous Indian singer and film actress.
1920 - Art Sansom - American cartoonist.
1931 - R. Ramachandra Rao - Cricket umpire.
1959 - Dave Richardson - South African cricketer.
1968 - Prasoon Joshi - Famous Indian lyricist.
1977 - Sushil Anand - Indian film actor.
Died on 16 September
1681 - Jahanara Begum - was the eldest daughter of Emperor Shah Jahan and Empress Mumtaz Mahal.
1931 - Omar Mukhtar, leader of the Libyan nation's struggle against Italian imperialism, is hanged. Born in 1859, Umar Mukhtar was a religious leader.
1944 - Jwalaprasad - Indian engineer and vice-chancellor of 'Banaras Hindu University' in 1936.
1965 - A. NS. Tarapore - was an officer of the Indian Army and awarded the Param Vir Chakra.
2017 - Arjan Singh - the senior-most of the Indian Air Force and the only marshal to reach the five-star rank.
2019 - Sivaraman Cheriyanad, a noted writer from Kerala, passed away.
2020 - Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, scholar of Indian classical dance, art, architecture and art history, passed away in New Delhi.
2020 - Hemant Pat Singhania, former BCCI vice-president and director of JK Electronics, passed away at the age of 90 in Kanpur.
Important Occasions and Celebrations of 16 September
- Mayflower Day.
- National Sports Day.
- Malaysia Day (Johor).
- National Guacamole Day.
- National Step Family Day.
- World Ozone Layer Protection Day.
- National Working Parents Day.
- National Cinnamon Raisin Bread Day.
- Fair Shree Veer Tejaji Dashavatar Jayanti.
- Shri Ramdev Ramdevra ji's fair (Navaldurg).
- International Day of Hearing (3rd Thursday).
- National Claw Day (3rd Thursday in September).
- Indian soldier A. NS. Tarapore Martyrdom Day.
- International Day for the Protection of the Ozone Layer.
Important Events of 16 September
1630 - Shawmut, a Massachusetts village, is renamed Boston, now a major city in the United States.
1702 – John Churchill is forced to surrender Venlo on the Meuse River.
1725 - Treaty of Hanover; Signed between Great Britain, France and Prussia.
1729 - William K. H. Friso is made Viceroy of the city of Groningen.
1747 - French troops capture Zum and Bergen.
1782 - The Great Seal of the United States of America is used for the first time.
1795 - Britain captures Cape Town, South Africa.
1810 - Niguel Hidalgo begins the struggle for the independence of Mexico from Spain.
1821 - Mexico's independence is recognized.
1848 - France abolishes slavery in all its colonies.
1861 - The UK Post Office introduces the facility of savings bank accounts.
1906 - Roald Amundsen of Norway discovered the magnetic South Pole.
1908 - William Crapo Billy founded the automaker 'General Motors Corporation'.
1943 - General Vatutin of the Soviet Union captures Romney again.
1947 – Cyclone Kathleen kills 1,930 people in Saitama, Tokyo.
1963 – North Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore are merged into the Federation of Malay to form a new country. Singapore was merged with Malay to form Malaysia.
1967 - The Soviet Union conducts nuclear tests in eastern Kazakh.
1975 - Cape Verde, Mozambique, So Tomé and Principe join the United Nations.
1975 - Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.
1978 – A 7.7-magnitude earthquake hits Tabar, Iran, killing 25,000 people.
1978 - General Zia-ul-Haq elected President of Pakistan.
1986 – 177 people are killed after being trapped in a gold mine in South Africa.
2003 - Bhutan assures that its land will not be used against Indian interests.
2007 - Pakistan's Chief Election Commissioner amends election laws to allow Pervez Musharraf to run for re-election as President.
2007 – A One To Go Airlines plane crashes in Thailand, killing 89 people.
2008 - Vishwakarma Award was presented to the employees of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL).
2009 - The Incredible India Science Campaign, which presented India to the world as an outstanding tourist destination, received a British award.
2013 – A gunman shot and killed 12 people at a Navy camp in Washington.
2014 - Islamic State waged war against Syrian Kurdish fighters.
2019 - Signing of seven agreements in science, technology, sports and culture between India and Slovenia.
2019 - Philip D Murphy, Governor of the US state of New Jersey, calls on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi.
2019 - The US becomes the world's top oil exporter, overtaking Saudi Arabia and Russia.
2020 – Yoshihide Suga of the Liberal Democratic Party, the main ruling party in Japan, is sworn in as the country's new prime minister.
2020 - The historic 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly begins amid the Corona epidemic.
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