16 September

The 16t o September is the 259t day o the year (260t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 106 day left.

 Events 
 1620 - The Mayflower, wi the Pilgrim Faithers, leaves Plymouth, Devon, Ingland.
 1701 - James Francis Edward Stuart becomes the Jacobite pretender.
 1810 - Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, wi his Grito de Dolores, stairts Mexico's fecht for unthirldom frae Spain.
 1824 - Charles X o Fraunce becomes King.
 1859 - David Livingstone reiks Loch Malawi in the Sooth-East o Africae.
 1902 - Alagoas becomes a state o Brazil.
 1920 - A bomb is detonatit in front o J. P. Morgan bank in Wall Street, New York Ceety.
 1928 - The Okeechobee hurricane maks laundfaw in Florida.
 1961 - The leftovers o Hurricane Debbie hit the Unitit Kinrick an Republic o Ireland.
 1963 - The Federation o Malaysie is creatit.
 1975 - Papua New Guinea gains unthirldom frae Australie.
 1978 - Filmin stairts for Monty Python's film "The Life o Brian".
 1978 - A yirdquauk o magnitude 7.8 in Iran kills 25,000 fowk.
 2007 - A plane cairryin 128 fowk crashes on the Thai island o Phuket, killin 89 fowk.
 2009 - Yukio Hatoyama becomes Prime meenister o Japan.
 2010 - Pape Benedict XVI visits Scotland as pairt o a state veesit tae the Unitit Kinrick.
 2020 - COVID-19 pandemic: Indie reaches a total o 5 million recordit cases.
 2020 - Yoshihide Suga replaces Shinzo Abe as Prime meenister o Japan.
 2020 - The govrenment o Barbados propales its intention tae abolish the monarchy; Elizabeth II is its exeestin Heid o State.

 Births 
 1387 - King Henry V o Ingland (d. 1422)
 1858 - Andrew Bonar Law, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (d. 1923)
 1859 - Yuan Shikai, Cheenese general an politeecian (d. 1916)
 1891 - Karl Dönitz, German admiral (d. 1980)
 1923 - Lee Kuan Yew, Prime meenister o Singapore (d. 2015)
 1924 - Lauren Bacall, American actress (d. 2014)
 1925 - B.B. King, American blues muisicker (d. 2015)
 1926 - Robert H. Schuller, American televangelist (d. 2015)
 1930 - Jerry Parr, American secret service agent (d. 2015)
 1957 - Norman Lamb, Inglis politeecian
 1971 - Amy Poehler, American actress an comedienne
 1981 - Alexis Bledel, American actress
 1983 - Kirsty Coventry, Zimbabwean soummer

 Daiths 
 96 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51)
 1380 - Charles V o Fraunce (b. 1338)
 1701 - James VII, Keeng o Scots (b. 1633)
 1824 - Louis XVIII o Fraunce (b. 1756)
 1977 - Maria Callas, Greek-American opera sangster (b. 1923)
 1980 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896)
 2016 - Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 10t Preses o Italy (b. 1920)

 Halidays 
 Independence Day/Grito de Dolores (Mexico)
 Malaysie Day
 Naitional Day o Papua New Guinea
 Stateheid Day in Alagoas, Brazil

Category:Days o the year