September 1, 2016, A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes during a routine firing test at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. SpaceX say there were no injuries, but that an "anomaly" during the static fire test resulted in the loss of the rocket and the Israeli Amos-6 communication satellite it was carrying. (The Telegraph)
September 1, 2016,
September 1, 2016,
September 1, 2016, A 7.1 magnitude earthquake occurs off the north east coast of North Island, New Zealand. A tsunami warning was issued after the earthquake, and waves of 0.3m have been reported near Gisborne. (BBC)
September 2, 2016, Release of Morgan
September 2, 2016, Release of The Light Between Oceans
September 2, 2016, Release of Yoga Hosers
September 2, 2016, Hermine, as a Category 1 storm, kills one person and leaves a quarter-million others without electricity during its trek through Florida. Now a tropical storm over North Carolina, Hermine should re-strengthen when it moves into the Atlantic Ocean tomorrow. Tropical storm warnings and watches are issued from Georgia to Rhode Island. (UPI)
September 3, 2016, A magnitude 5.6 earthquake strikes Pawnee, Oklahoma, tying the record for the strongest in state history. At least one person was injured. (CNN)
September 4, 2016, Mother Teresa, known for working with the desperately poor, is canonized in a ceremony at the Vatican. (BBC)
September 5, 2016, Mary + Jane Series Premiere
September 5, 2016, An asteroid is named in honour of Freddie Mercury on what would have been his 70th birthday. (Rolling Stone)
September 5, 2016, The European Space Agency's robotic lander Philae is discovered wedged in a crack between some rocks in the shadow of a cliff on 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko by the Rosetta space probe after being lost since 2014. (CNN)
September 5, 2016, U.S. President Barack Obama cancels a scheduled meeting with the President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, after Duterte referred to Obama as a "son of a whore", while adding "I am no American puppet", in response to Obama's recent criticism of his war on drugs. (The Washington Post)
September 6, 2016, Barack Obama pledges US$90 million to clear Laos of unexploded ordnance dropped by the United States during the Vietnam War. (NBC)
September 6, 2016, About 27 years after his abduction, the remains of Jacob Wetterling are discovered. (NPR)
September 6, 2016, 21st Century Fox, the parent company of Fox News, settles a sexual harassment case by Gretchen Carlson for US$20 million. (Vanity Fair)
September 6, 2016, Fox News On The Record host Greta Van Susteren leaves the channel after 14 years. (AP via Breitbart News)
September 7, 2016, Apple announces the release of the iPhone 7 along with the Apple Watch 2. (The Telegraph)
September 7, 2016, The American pop star Madonna agrees on a settlement with her former husband Guy Ritchie over their son. (BBC)
September 7, 2016, Luis Videgaray Caso resigns as Mexico's finance minister amid fallout over President Enrique Peña Nieto's controversial meeting with U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump in Mexico City. Videgaray is revealed to have been the main advocate of arranging the meeting. (The Washington Post)
September 7, 2016, The 2016 Summer Paralympic Games, open in Rio de Janeiro. (Al Jazeera)
September 8, 2016, The United Launch Alliance successfully launches NASA's OSIRIS-REx from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41 in Florida. The mission is to study asteroid 101955 Bennu and in 2023 toreturn a sample to Earth for detailed analysis. If successful, OSIRIS-REx will be the first U.S. spacecraft to return samples from an asteroid. (CNN)
September 8, 2016,
September 8, 2016, International banking company Wells Fargo agrees to pay $190 million, including $100 million to the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (largest ever for the agency), to settle a case involving deceptive sales that pushed customers into fee-generating accounts they never requested. The bank fired 5,300 employees over "inappropriate sales conduct." The firings took place over a five-year period. (Reuters)
September 8, 2016, German scientists confirm that the cause of the Great Plague of London from 1665–1666 was Yersinia pestis (cause of the Bubonic plague). (BBC)
September 8, 2016, Newly-revealed secret information, decoded from documents from the Mitrokhin Archive, a collection of handwritten notes by KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, who smuggled his notes out of Russia in the 1990s when he defected to Britain, show that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was once a "spy" under the Russian agency the KGB using the codename "Mole". (The Washington Post)
September 8, 2016, The Obama administration choses retired United States Air Force Brigadier General Gregory Touhill the first federal CISO chief, who reports to the CIO of the U.S. Tony Scott. (Reuters)
September 8, 2016, The Earth has lost a tenth of its wilderness in the last two decades. (The Washington Post)
September 8, 2016, American swimmer Ryan Lochte agrees to a 10-month suspension while his other colleagues get four. (USA Today)
September 9, 2016, Release of Sully
September 9, 2016, Release of When The Bough Breaks
September 9, 2016, Release of The Disappoint Poster
September 9, 2016, The United States Congress passes a law allowing families of the victims of the September 11 attacks to sue Saudi Arabia. U.S. president Barack Obama threatens to veto it. (Fox News)
September 10, 2016, The District Court for the District of Columbia releases John Hinckley Jr, U.S. President Ronald Reagan's March 1981 would-be assassin, from a psychiatric hospital after 35 years. (BBC)
September 11, 2016, The Miss America 2017 pageant is held in Atlantic City, New Jersey, with Savvy Shields, currently Miss Arkansas, winning the event. (AP via Fox News)
September 11, 2016, Hillary Clinton's doctor says she is being treated for pneumonia and dehydration after the Democratic Party presidential candidate fell ill and abruptly left a ceremony in New York City honoring the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. (The New York Times)
September 12, 2016, The Arctic Research Foundation discovers the wreck of the Royal Navy's HMS Terror almost completely intact off the southern coast of King William Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, 168 years after being abandoned during Franklin's lost expedition in 1848. (The Guardian)
September 12, 2016, A 5.8-magnitude earthquake occurs in South Korea, 9km south of Gyeongju, injuring at least two people and causing nationwide panic. It is the strongest earthquake ever recorded in South Korea. (Xinhua)
September 12, 2016, Baracktrema obamai, a new species of parasite is named after Barack Obama. (Tech Times)
September 13, 2016, Proceedings begin in the trial of Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, former chairman of the giant insurance company AIG, on charges of accounting fraud. The 2005 indictment accuses Greenberg and AIG's former CFO of setting up bogus reinsurance transactions to conceal the insurer's financial difficulties in 2000 and 2001. (Reuters)
September 14, 2016, American Horror Story Season 6 Premiere
September 16, 2016, High Maintenance Series Premiere
September 19, 2016, The Good Place Series Premiere
September 19, 2016, Kevin Can Wait Series Premiere
September 14, 2016, German chemicals company Bayer AG will announce that it has acquired American seeds company Monsanto Co. for US$66 billion. (Reuters)
September 14, 2016, Typhoon Meranti hits southern Taiwan with record breaking winds and heavy rains, disrupting transport and knocking out power to tens of thousands of people. (Bloomberg)
September 14, 2016, The Obama administration plans on increasing refugees admitted to the United States to 110,000. (NBC)
September 15, 2016, Texas authorities agree to pay $1.9 million to the family of Sandra
Bland, the woman who was found hanged in a jail cell in Waller County,
Texas, in July 2015. A grand jury did not issue an indictment. (CBS News)
September 15, 2016, The U.S. House Intelligence Committee releases a summary of its two-year investigation into former NSA contractor Edward Snowden which downplays his alleged status as a whistleblower while acknowledging "tremendous damage to national security" as a result of the classified documents he stole. (NPR)
September 15, 2016, The China National Space Administration (CNSA) launches the Tiangong-2 space laboratory from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. (CNN)
September 16, 2016, Release of Snowden
September 16, 2016, Release of Blair Witch
September 16, 2016, Release of Bridget Jones's Baby
September 16, 2016, High Maintenance Series Premiere
September 16, 2016, The Commission on Presidential Debates officially announces the invitation of Democratic Party nominee Hillary Clinton, and GOP nominee Donald Trump, to the first presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, on September 26. However, third party candidates, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, have not met the criteria, and will not be participants in the debate. (Reuters)
September 17, 2016, A mass stabbing at Crossroads Center in St. Cloud, Minnesota, U.S., leaves nine injured. An off-duty police officer shoots dead the perpetrator, Dahir Adan. (The St. Cloud Times)
September 18, 2016, A bombing occurs in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan injuring 29 people. (The New York Times)
-An explosion occurs in Seaside Park, New Jersey, shortly before the USMC 5K run in the area. No injuries or fatalities are reported. (Asbury Park Press)
-An explosion occurs in Seaside Park, New Jersey, shortly before the USMC 5K run in the area. No injuries or fatalities are reported. (Asbury Park Press)
September 18, 2016, The 2016 Summer Paralympic Games close in Rio de Janeiro. (ABC)
September 19, 2016, Kevin Can Wait Series Premiere
September 19, 2016, Gotham Season 3 Premiere
September 19, 2016, Big Bang Theory Season 10 Premiere
