On September 16
On September 16, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (1987).
On this day
The Montreal Protocol is a landmark international environmental treaty adopted on 16 September 1987 in Montreal, Canada, to phase out the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and…
Also this week in history (Sep 13 – Sep 19)
Meeting in Philadelphia from May to September 1787, delegates from the American states abandoned an effort merely to revise the weak Articles of Confederation and instead drafted an entirely new frame of government.
On 19 September 1893 the Governor of New Zealand, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law, making the colony the first self-governing nation in the world to grant all adult women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
On 15 September 2008 Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest US investment bank, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with more than $600 billion in assets—the largest bankruptcy in American history.
At the Rainhill Trials of 6-14 October 1829 the directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway held a public competition to decide what motive power their line should use.
On 18 September 1931, officers of Japan's Kwantung Army detonated explosives on a Japanese-owned railway near Mukden (Shenyang) and blamed Chinese forces, staging the false-flag Mukden Incident as a pretext for invasion.
On 13 September 1993, at a ceremony on the White House lawn hosted by US President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat sealed the first Oslo Accord, the…
On 14 September 2015 the twin detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana, recorded the first direct detection of gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime…
On 17 September 2011 protesters inspired by a call from the Canadian anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters occupied Zuccotti Park in New York City's financial district, launching Occupy Wall Street.