September 16: Malaysia Day; Independence Day in Mexico (1810)
Radar image of Typhoon Nancy
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: On hearing the British troops sounding their bugles as if it were a fox hunt, the American colonists held their ground and were victorious at the Battle of Harlem Heights in present-day New York City.
- 1940 – World War II: Italy captured the town of Sidi Barrani, but their invasion of Egypt progressed no further.
- 1961 – Typhoon Nancy (radar image pictured), with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, made initial landfall in Muroto, Kōchi, Japan.
- 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 700 civilians.
- 1994 – The British government lifted its ban that prevented Sinn Féin and several Irish republican and loyalist groups from being broadcast on television and radio.
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