September 16th, 1976

Born on September 16th, 1976

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What happened on September 16th, 1976?

September 16th, 1976

Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavarsh_Karapetyan

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, 1976

47

Liz Bonnin

French-born Irish television presenter

*September 16th, 1976, France

47

Elīna Garanča

Latvian opera singer

*September 16th, 1976, Riga

47

Mónica Carrillo Martínez

Spanish journalist and television presenter

*September 16th, 1976, Elche

47

Tina Barrett

English singer and actress

*September 16th, 1976, London

47

Luis Fernando Centi

Italian footballer

*September 16th, 1976, Savona

47

Leire Pajín

Spanish politician

*September 16th, 1976, San Sebastián

47

Greg Buckner

American former professional basketball player, born 1976

*September 16th, 1976, Hopkinsville

47

Adel Chedli

Tunisian and French association football player

*September 16th, 1976, La Ricamarie

47

Erik Aadahl

Academy Award-nominated sound editor

*September 16th, 1976, San Francisco

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Who's birthday is on September 16th?

48

Candra Wijaya

Badminton player

*September 16th, 1975, Cirebon City

54

Justine Frischmann

English musician

*September 16th, 1969, Kensington

58

Karl-Heinz Riedle

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1965, Weiler-Simmerberg

22

Cris MJ

Chilean singer

*September 16th, 2001, La Serena

31

Nick Jonas

American singer, actor and musician

*September 16th, 1992, Dallas

52

Amy Poehler

American actress

*September 16th, 1971, Newton

42

Fan Bingbing

Chinese actress, model and singer

*September 16th, 1981, Yantai

59

Britta Altenkamp

German politician

*September 16th, 1964, Essen

65

Jennifer Tilly

American actress

*September 16th, 1958, Harbor City

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

39

Katharina Dröge

German politician

*September 16th, 1984, Münster

54

Armin Medosch

Austrian journalist, researcher and curator

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

42

Alexis Bledel

American actress

*September 16th, 1981, Houston

76

Dieter Riedel

German association football player and manager

*September 16th, 1947, Gröditz

48

Shannon Noll

Australian singer

*September 16th, 1975, Orange

48

Antonio Hortelano

Spanish actor

*September 16th, 1975, Valencia

39

Katie Melua

English-Georgian singer and songwriter

*September 16th, 1984, Kutaisi

60

Richard Marx

American singer and songwriter

*September 16th, 1963, Chicago

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Born in 1976

47

Abiy Ahmed Ali

Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018

*August 15th, 1976, Beshasha

47

Anna Friel

British actress

*July 12th, 1976, Rochdale

47

Carrie Henn

American actress

*May 7th, 1976, Panama City

48

Robert Mateusiak

Badminton player

*January 13th, 1976, Wołomin

47

Gülşen

Turkish singer

*May 29th, 1976, Çapa, Fatih

47

Regina Halmich

German boxer

*November 22nd, 1976, Karlsruhe

40

Ueli Steck

Swiss mountaineer and rock climber (1976-2017)

*October 4th, 1976, Langnau im Emmental †April 30th, 2017, Nuptse

47

Halim Haryanto

Badminton player

*September 23rd, 1976, Bandung City

47

Ellen Angelina

Indonesian badminton player

*June 30th, 1976, Salatiga City

48

Chantal Botts

Badminton player

*March 30th, 1976, Witbank

48

Takae Masumo

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1976, Hokkaido

48

Pál Dárdai

Hungarian association football player and manager

*March 16th, 1976, Pécs

47

Inga Marte Thorkildsen

Norwegian politician

*July 2nd, 1976, Oslo

47

Benedict Cumberbatch

English actor (born 1976)

*July 19th, 1976, Hammersmith

47

Lars Ricken

German footballer

*July 10th, 1976, Dortmund

47

Francesco Totti

Italian association football player

*September 27th, 1976, Rome

48

Miho Tanaka

Badminton player

*April 8th, 1976, Saga Prefecture

47

Colin Farrell

Irish actor (born 1976)

*May 31st, 1976, Dublin

47

Wang Chen

Hong Kong badminton player

*June 21st, 1976, Shanghai

47

Hidetaka Yamada

Badminton player

*June 22nd, 1976, Kobe

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Yes: 1976 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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