September 16th, 1970

Born on September 16th, 1970

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What happened on September 16th, 1970?

September 16th, 1970

King Hussein of Jordan declares war against the Palestine Liberation Organization, the conflict came to be known as Black September.

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What else happened on September 16th?

September 16th, 2013

A lone gunman fatally shot twelve people and injured three others at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.

September 16th, 1992

The British pound was forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism on Black Wednesday, and suffered a major devaluation.

September 16th, 1990

Construction of the Northern Xinjiang railway (terminus pictured) was completed between Ürümqi South and Alashankou, linking the railway lines of China and Kazakhstan and adding a sizeable portion to the Eurasian Land Bridge.

September 16th, 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.

September 16th, 1979

Eight people escaped from East Germany to West Germany in a home-made hot air balloon.

September 16th, 1975

The prototype of the Mikoyan MiG-31 (example pictured), one of the fastest combat jets in the world, made its maiden flight.

September 16th, 1963

Malaysia was formed as an independent nation from the Federation of Malaya, the Colony of Singapore, the Crown Colony of North Borneo, and the Crown Colony of Sarawak.

September 16th, 1961

The U.S. National Hurricane Research Project sought to weaken Hurricane Esther by seeding it with silver iodide, leading to the establishment of Project Stormfury.

September 16th, 1940

Second World War: Italian forces captured the town of Sidi Barrani, but their invasion of Egypt progressed no further.

September 16th, 1920

A bomb in a horse-drawn wagon exploded in front of 23 Wall Street in New York City, killing 38 people and injuring several hundred others.

September 16th, 1844

Felix Mendelssohn completed the score of the Violin Concerto, his final concerto.

September 16th, 1822

French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel, in a "note" read to the Academy of Sciences, reported a direct refraction experiment verifying David Brewster's hypothesis that photoelasticity (as we now call it) is stress-induced birefringence.

September 16th, 1776

American Revolutionary War: American colonists defeated British troops at the Battle of Harlem Heights (depicted) on the island of Manhattan.

September 16th, 0681

At the Third Council of Constantinople, Pope Honorius I was posthumously excommunicated, with his support for monothelitism deemed to be heretical.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on September 16th

Born on September 16th, 1970

53

Christine Urspruch

German actress

*September 16th, 1970, Remscheid

53

Yuriy Nikiforov

Russian/Ukrainian association football player

*September 16th, 1970, Odesa

53

Tamron Hall

American broadcast journalist and talk show host

*September 16th, 1970, Luling

53

Doug Cockle

American actor and voice actor

*September 16th, 1970, Twentynine Palms

53

Cécile de Ménibus

French television presenter

*September 16th, 1970, Chartres

53

Alberthiene Endah

Indonesian biographer, novelist, and journalist

*September 16th, 1970, Bandung City

53

Kunio Nagayama

Japanese association football player

*September 16th, 1970, Kanagawa Prefecture

53

Kerttu Rakke

Estonian writer

*September 16th, 1970, Võru

53

Nedeljko Jovanović

Serbian handball player

*September 16th, 1970, Belgrade

53

Knowl Johnson

American actor

*September 16th, 1970, Greenwich

53

Shinsuke Sato

Japanese film director

*September 16th, 1970, Hiba district

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54

Justine Frischmann

English musician

*September 16th, 1969, Kensington

48

Candra Wijaya

Badminton player

*September 16th, 1975, Cirebon City

58

Karl-Heinz Riedle

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1965, Weiler-Simmerberg

52

Amy Poehler

American actress

*September 16th, 1971, Newton

22

Cris MJ

Chilean singer

*September 16th, 2001, La Serena

59

Britta Altenkamp

German politician

*September 16th, 1964, Essen

31

Nick Jonas

American singer, actor and musician

*September 16th, 1992, Dallas

65

Jennifer Tilly

American actress

*September 16th, 1958, Harbor City

54

Armin Medosch

Austrian journalist, researcher and curator

*September 16th, 1962, Graz †February 23rd, 2017, Vienna

93

Albert Szent-Györgyi

Hungarian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1937 (1896-1986)

*September 16th, 1893, Budapest †October 22nd, 1986, Woods Hole

50

Alexander Vinokourov

Kazakh road bicycle racer, born 1973

*September 16th, 1973, Beskol

80

Anne Francis

American actress

*September 16th, 1930, Ossining †January 2nd, 2011, Santa Barbara

42

Fan Bingbing

Chinese actress, model and singer

*September 16th, 1981, Yantai

76

Dieter Riedel

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1947, Gröditz

60

Richard Marx

American singer and songwriter

*September 16th, 1963, Chicago

39

Katharina Dröge

German politician

*September 16th, 1984, Münster

91

Lee Kuan Yew

1st Prime Minister of Singapore (1923–2015)

*September 16th, 1923, Singapore †March 23rd, 2015, Singapore General Hospital

89

B. B. King

American blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter (1925–2015)

*September 16th, 1925, Berclair †May 14th, 2015, Las Vegas

55

Marc Anthony

American singer (born 1968)

*September 16th, 1968, New York City

54

Carlo Gabriel Nero

Italian-English actor and film director

*September 16th, 1969, London

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53

Malena Ernman

Swedish opera singer

*November 4th, 1970, Uppsala Cathedral Assembly

54

Allan Fung

American politician in Rhode Island (born 1970)

*February 23rd, 1970, Providence

53

Shanti Roney

Swedish actor

*November 24th, 1970, Spånga

54

Mia X

American rapper

*January 9th, 1970, New Orleans

53

Mehmet Scholl

German association football player and manager

*October 16th, 1970, Karlsruhe

54

Gil Young-ah

South Korean badminton player

*April 11th, 1970, Ansan

46

Toby Smith

British musician (1970-2017)

*October 29th, 1970, London †April 11th, 2017, London

53

Melania Trump

First Lady of the United States (2017–2021), model, and businesswoman

*April 26th, 1970, Novo Mesto

54

Simon Pegg

English actor (born 1970)

*February 14th, 1970, Brockworth

54

Lara Fabian

Belgian and Canadian singer and songwriter

*January 9th, 1970, Etterbeek

53

Colin Lawrence

Actor

*September 7th, 1970, London

53

Ethan Hawke

American actor and writer (b. 1970)

*November 6th, 1970, Austin

54

Ardy Wiranata

Badminton player

*February 10th, 1970, Jakarta

53

Erich Irlstorfer

German politician

*May 27th, 1970, Freising

54

Rachel Weisz

British-American actress

*March 7th, 1970, Westminster

53

Nikolai Zuyev

Badminton player

*May 7th, 1970, Dnipro

53

Rhona Robertson

Badminton player

*July 19th, 1970, Auckland

53

Sandra Dimbour

Badminton player

*June 13th, 1970, Saint-Denis

53

Uma Thurman

American actress (born 1970)

*April 29th, 1970, Boston

53

Ted Cruz

United States Senator from Texas since 2013

*December 22nd, 1970, Calgary

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No: With 365 days 1970 is a normal year and no leap year.

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