Historical Events on September 16.

1. International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer

2. 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. 

3. 1908, 16th September – In the USA, Buick and Oldsmobile merged under the name General Motors. General Motors Corporation was founded. 

4. 1945, 16th September – The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong came to an end in World War II.

5. 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.

6. 1961, 16th September – Pakistan established its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.

7. 1963, 16th September – Malaysia became independent and a mob of more than 100,000 burned down the British Embassy in celebration.

8. 1975, 16th September – Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.

9. 1987, 16th September – 70 countries signed an agreement in Montreal today to curb the threat from industrial gases to the ozone layer.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on September 16.

1. 1387 – Henry V, the English king who defeated the French at Agincourt.

2. 1853 – Albrecht Kossel, German physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. ‘a German biochemist and pioneer in the study of genetics.’

3. 1888 – W.O. Bentley, English engineer, and car racer. He was the founder of Bentley Motors Limited.

4. 1916 – M.S. Subbulakshmi, the first Indian musician to be awarded the Bharat Ratna. She also awarded the Ramon Magsaysay award.

5. 1923 – Lee Kuan Yew, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore.

6. 1925 – B. B. King, American blues guitarist, and inspiration of a whole generation of a rock musician.

7. 1945 – P. Chidambaram, an Indian politician, and lawyer. He was the former Union Minister of Finance of India.

8. 1955 – George Alexander Muthoot, Indian entrepreneur. He is Managing Director of Muthoot Groups.

9. 1968 – Marc Anthony, American singer, actor, and producer.

10. 1971 – Prasoon Joshi, Indian lyricist, poet, and marketer.

11. 1992 – Nick Jones, American singer, and actor. He married to Indian-American actress Priyanka Chopra.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on September 16.

1. 1380 – Charles V, King of France.

2. 1701 – James II, King of England.

3. 1824 – King Louis XVIII, king of France. He attempted to be a moderate constitutional monarch who was thwarted by the ultra-royalists.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini. 

7. 2005 – Gordon Gould, American physicist and academic, invented the laser. 

8. 2010 – Robert Joseph White, an American neurosurgeon. He is best known for his head transplants on living monkeys.

9. 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.

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.