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International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
1620, 16th September – A group of Puritans separatists had set sail from Plymouth today in the Mayflower, bound for the New World and religious freedom
1908, 16th September – In the USA, Buick and Oldsmobile merged under the name General Motors General Motors Corporation was founded
1945, 16th September – The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong came to an end in World War II
1959, 16th September – Charles de Gaulle, French president of the new fifth Republican and former head of the committee of National Liberation in Algiers, offered Algeria an independence referendum
1961, 16th September – Pakistan established its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head
1963, 16th September – Malaysia became independent and a mob of more than 100,000 burned down the British Embassy in celebration
1975, 16th September – Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia
1987, 16th September – 70 countries signed an agreement in Montreal today to curb the threat from industrial gases to the ozone layer
On this Day Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on September 16
1387 – Henry V, the English king who defeated the French at Agincourt
1853 – Albrecht Kossel, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate ‘a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics’
1888 – WO Bentley, English engineer, and car racer He was the founder of Bentley Motors Limited
1916 – MS Subbulakshmi, the first Indian musician to be awarded the Bharat Ratna She also awarded the Ramon Magsaysay award
1923 – Lee Kuan Yew, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore
1925 – B B King, American blues guitarist, and inspiration of a whole generation of a rock musician
1945 – P Chidambaram, an Indian politician, and lawyer He was the former Union Minister of Finance of India
1955 – George Alexander Muthoot, Indian entrepreneur He is Managing Director of Muthoot Groups
1968 – Marc Anthony, American singer, actor, and producer
1971 – Prasoon Joshi, Indian lyricist, poet, and marketer
1992 – Nick Jones, American singer, and actor He married to Indian-American actress Priyanka Chopra
On this Day Death Anniversaries of famous people on September 16
1380 – Charles V, King of France
1701 – James II, King of England
1824 – King Louis XVIII, king of France He attempted to be a moderate constitutional monarch who was thwarted by the ultra-royalists
1925 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist, and mathematician He is best known for his pioneering theory that the universe was expanding, governed by a set of equations he developed now known as the Friedmann equations
1932 – Sir Ronald Ross, a British medical doctor He was the first British to won the Nobel Prize He received the award for his work on the transmission of malaria
1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini
2005 – Gordon Gould, American physicist and academic, invented the laser
2010 – Robert Joseph White, an American neurosurgeon He is best known for his head transplants on living monkeys
2017 – Arjan Singh, Marshal of the Indian Air Force He served as the 3rd Chief of the Air Staff from 1964 to 1969, leading the Air Force through the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
What happened in India on 16 September
16-September-1913
Kasturba Gandhi was arrested.
16-September-1916
M. S. Subalaxmi, famous classical singer and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born.
16-September-1916
D. R. Samant, journalist and social reformer, was born at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra.
16-September-1929
Yerramilli Janardan Rao, educationist, was born at Tanuku, (W. Godavari).
16-September-1931
Political prisoners Tarkeshwar Dutta and Santosh Mitra were shot by an officer at Hijli detention camp near Kharagpur. They were arrested for attending the Hijli meeting.
16-September-1931
Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, popularly known as George Sudarshan, was born in Kottayam, Kerala. He was a physicist of world repute.
16-September-1931
R. Ramachandra Rao, cricket test umpire for one test in 1986-87, was born at Tamil Nadu.
16-September-1932
Ronald Ross, bacteriologist and member of Indian Medical Service, died in London. He had also received a Nobel Prize.
16-September-1954
The Lok Sabha adopted a clause in the Special Marriage Bill providing for divorce by consent.
16-September-1955
Leopold C. M. S. Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), died at the age of 81.
16-September-1967
Tibetan, Indian and Chinese troops engage in fighting at Natu La pass on the Tibet-Sikkim border.
16-September-1973
Abasaheb Mujumdar, great musician, died.
16-September-1977
Kesarbai Kerkar, famous classical singer, died in Bombay .
16-September-1990
Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War.
16-September-1995
Prime Minister inducts 16 new members into his Council of Ministers and elevates three deputy ministers to the rank of Ministers of State.
16-September-1996
First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto.
16-September-1996
J & K second phase poll for 34 seats.
16-September-1997
General Manager of Tata Tea remanded to judicial custody on charges of abetting and aiding ULFA.
16-September-1997
Rajeev Balakrishnan sets 100m national mark in the ITC International Athletics meet.
16-September-2000
Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics.
16-September-2000
In an important pronouncement, the Rajasthan High Court declares Jains as a religious minority community and allows teaching institutions set up by them to enjoy minority status under Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution.