Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 16

This is a list of selected September 16 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.

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  Aftermath of the 1920 Wall Street bombing
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  British Five Pound gold coin
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  A statue of Miguel Hidalgo
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  A statue of Miguel Hidalgo
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  James Francis Edward Stuart
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  Shah Reza Pahlavi
• Seal of Owain Glyndŵr
  Seal of Owain Glyndŵr
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  Radar image of Typhoon Nancy

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Mexico (1810) and Papua New Guinea (1975)	Mexico: too long, refimprove section; PNG: section outdated, unreferenced section
1400 – Owain Glyndŵr was proclaimed Prince of Wales and instigated a revolt against the rule of Henry IV of England.	Owain: unreferenced section; Rising: refimprove
1701 – Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, more commonly referred to as the "Old Pretender", became the Jacobite claimant of the thrones of England and Scotland.	refimprove section
1810 – Miguel Hidalgo, the parish priest in Dolores, Guanajuato, delivered the Cry of Dolores to his congregation, instigating the Mexican War of Independence against Spain.	unreferenced section
1863 – Robert College, the first American educational institution outside the United States, was founded in Istanbul.	refimprove
1941 – Shah Reza Pahlavi of Iran was forced to abdicate in favour of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.	refimprove section
1943 – World War II: Heinrich von Vietinghoff, commander of the German 10th Army, decided to withdraw his troops from Salerno, concluding the Allied invasion of Italy.	unreferenced section
1987 – The Montreal Protocol, an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of a number of substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion, opened for signature.	refimprove section
1992 – The British pound was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday, and suffered a major devaluation.	refimprove
2007 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269, carrying 128 crew and passengers, crashed at Phuket International Airport, Thailand, killing 89 people.	multiple issues

Eligible

• 1920 – A bomb in a horse wagon exploded in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City, killing 38 people and injuring several hundred others.
• 1961 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, made initial landfall in Muroto, Kōchi, Japan, having decreased in intensity.
• 1982 – A Lebanese militia under the direct command of Elie Hobeika carried out a massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila, killing at least 460 civilians.
• 1990 – Construction of the Northern Xinjiang railway was completed between Ürümqi South and Alashankou stations, linking the railway lines of China and Kazakhstan, and adding a sizable portion to the Eurasian Land Bridge.
• 2007 – Seventeen Iraqi civilians were shot and killed by Blackwater Worldwide guards.
• 2015 – Ownership of the Groom Mine was transferred to the United States Government due to eminent domain.
• Born/died: Philip III of Navarre (d. 1343) · Marian Cruger Coffin (b. 1876) · Lauren Bacall (b. 1924) · Ahn Eak-tai (d. 1965)

September 16: Malaysia Day (1963)

Italian tanks during Italy's invasion of Egypt

• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: American colonists defeated British troops at the Battle of Harlem Heights on the island of Manhattan.
• 1940 – Second World War: Italy captured the town of Sidi Barrani, but its invasion of Egypt (Italian tanks pictured) progressed no further.
• 1961 – The United States' National Hurricane Research Project sought to weaken Hurricane Esther by seeding it with silver iodide, leading to the establishment of Project Stormfury.
• 1979 – Eight people escaped from East Germany to the West in a home-made hot air balloon.
• 1982 – A Lebanese militia under the direct command of Elie Hobeika carried out a massacre in the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and Shatila, killing at least 460 civilians.
• 2013 – A lone gunman fatally shot twelve people and injured three others in a mass shooting at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (d. 1736) · Louis XVIII (d. 1824) · Katie Melua (b. 1984)

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