The September 16th is the 259e Jour of the Année (260e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 106 days before the end of the year.

Events

1 to 1900

XXe century

  • 1908 : Foundation of the company General Motors by William C. During.

  • 1913 : With Madrid (alternate Spain, of Juan Belmonte, Spanish Matador.
  • 1920: Explosion of a bends in the district of Wall Street (New York), killing 30 people and by wounding hundreds of others.
  • 1929 : Signature of peace enters the Bolivia and the Paraguay.
  • 1940 : The Italian army reached Sidi Barrani, in Cyrénaïque.
  • 1943 : With Nantes (France), following a bombardment of the Allies, 1  400 civilians are killed.
  • 1945 : The Japanese capitulate with HongKong.
  • 1950 : War of Korea: the American forces unload with Inchon, port of the south of the country.
  • 1955 : A military rising with Cordoba extends to all the Argentine, and its president Juan Peron is exiled.
  • 1957 : A takeover by force in Thailand carries Pote Sarasin to the head of the government of Bangkok.
  • 1959 : The Général de Gaulle offers self-determination to the Algérie.
  • 1963 : The Malaysia, the North-Borneo, Sarawak and Singapore form the Malayan Federation.
  • 1967 : U Thant, general secretary of UNO, request in the United States the stop of the bombardments on North-Vietnam.
  • 1970 : Hussein of Jordan declares the law martial.
  • 1975 : Independence of the New Guinea-News-Guinea.
  • 1976 : The American Church épiscopalienne gives its agreement to the ordination of women, as pastors and bishops.
  • 1978 : Earthquake in the North-East of the Iran. There was more than 60.000 victims.
  • 1978 : Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq is elected president of the Pakistan.
  • 1979 : In Afghanistan, Hafizullah Amin makes strangle former president Nour Mohammed Taraki, returning from Moscow.
  • 1982 : Massacre of Sabred and Chatila, with the Lebanon.
  • 1987 : Signature of the Protocol of Montreal. The representatives of 24 countries, joined together in Canada, decide to reduce the consumption of Chlorofluorocarbone in order to protect the Couche from ozone (SACO) around the ground.
  • 1989 : The the Arab League lance a call to a cease-fire " immediate and total" with the Lebanon like first stage with the payment of the conflict in this country.
  • 1990 : 15.000 soldiers Egyptien S leave for the area the Golfe.
  • 1994 : 1st autonomous Astronaut in space thanks to a “backpack” engine SAFER (Assistance simplified for the rescues at extra-vehicular exit).
  • 1995 : First visit of the Pope Jean-Paul II in South Africa since the end of the Apartheid.
  • 1998 : Francois Bayrou succeeds François Léotard at the position of president of the UDF.
  • 1999 : The Algérie NS approve to 98,63% per referendum the step of the Head of the State on the " agree civile" allowing an amnesty partial of the islamist ones.

XXIe century

  • 2001 : In an interview diffused by the television channel by satellite Al-Jazira, Usama Bin Laden demented person any implication in the attacks of the September 11th.

  • 2002 : The Iraq accepts without conditions the return of the inspectors in disarmament of UNO. George W. Bush hopes despite everything to obtain Congress the authorization to use " all the appropriés" means; to force Baghdad to dismantle its programs of supposed armaments.
  • 2003 : The mystery of the family Flactif is finally elucidated: David Hotyat recognizes the quintuple murder of the family missing since the April 11th with the Large-Bornand (Haute-Savoie) and indicates where and how it got rid of the bodies. His/her friend Stephan Harenza will be put in examination for complicity, as well as the partners of the two men, Alexandra Lefèvre and Isabelle Harenza, for misprision of crime. Thereafter, Hotyat will reconsider her consents.
  • 2004 : After having caused the death of 70 people in the Caribbean, the Hurricane Ivan striking south of the United States, making 45 dead.
  • 2007 : A plane is crushed on the island of Puket in Thailand making at least 30 dead.

Births

Death

Celebrations

  • Mexico: Day of independence.

Catholic and orthodoxe saints

Catholic saints

Orthodoxe saints

  • Cyprien of Kiev (+ 1406).

Saying of the day

“September names May of the autumn. ”

See too

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