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September 16 through the years

Other entries on the same calendar day, in order.

1. 2005Camorra
2. 2007Nisour Square massacre
3. 2007One-Two-Go Airlines Flight 269
4. 2013Washington Navy Yard shooting
5. 2014Siege of Kobanî
6. 20152015 Illapel earthquake
7. 2015Allan Wright
8. 20212021 Luxian earthquake
9. 2021Inspiration4
10. 2022Let Yet Kone massacre
11. 2022Death of Mahsa Amini

Also in 2015

• September 9Elizabeth IIElizabeth II (pictured) became the longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, surpassing Queen Victoria.
• September 11Mecca crane collapseA crane collapses onto the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Saudi Arabia, killing 111 people and injuring 394 others.
• September 12Petlawad explosionAn explosion involving illegally stored mining detonators in Petlawad, India, killed 104 people and injured more than 150 others.
• September 14LIGOPhysicists of the LIGO and Virgo projects first observed gravitational waves, the existence of which was predicted by Henri Poincaré in 1…
• September 14First observation of gravitational wavesThe first observation of gravitational waves is made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
• September 182015 Camp Badaber attackTwo security personnel, 17 worshippers in a mosque, and 13 militants are killed during a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan attack on a Pakistan A…
• October 222015 Trollhättan school attackA sword-wielding man attacked students and teachers at a high school in Trollhättan, killing three people in Sweden's deadliest school at…
• January 3Boko HaramBoko Haram militants destroy the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the Baga massacre and killing as many as 2,000 people.

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Sources

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