| Date | Event Name |
| 09/16/1913 |
Kasturba Gandhi was arrested. |
| 09/16/1916 |
M. S. Subalaxmi, famous classical singer and Bharat Ratna awardee, was born. |
| 09/16/1916 |
D. R. Samant, journalist and social reformer, was born at Ratnagiri, Maharashtra. |
| 09/16/1929 |
Yerramilli Janardan Rao, educationist, was born at Tanuku, (W. Godavari). |
| 09/16/1931 |
Political prisoners Tarkeshwar Dutta and Santosh Mitra were shot by an officer at Hijli detention camp near Kharagpur. They were arrested for attending the Hijli meeting. |
| 09/16/1931 |
Ennackal Chandy George Sudarshan, popularly known as George Sudarshan, was born in Kottayam, Kerala. He was a physicist of world repute. |
| 09/16/1931 |
R. Ramachandra Rao, cricket test umpire for one test in 1986-87, was born at Tamil Nadu. |
| 09/16/1932 |
Ronald Ross, bacteriologist and member of Indian Medical Service, died in London. He had also received a Nobel Prize. |
| 09/16/1954 |
The Lok Sabha adopted a clause in the Special Marriage Bill providing for divorce by consent. |
| 09/16/1955 |
Leopold C. M. S. Amery, British minister of Colonies (India), died at the age of 81. |
| 09/16/1967 |
Tibetan, Indian and Chinese troops engage in fighting at Natu La pass on the Tibet-Sikkim border. |
| 09/16/1973 |
Abasaheb Mujumdar, great musician, died. |
| 09/16/1977 |
Kesarbai Kerkar, famous classical singer, died in Bombay. |
| 09/16/1990 |
Air India establishes a world record by evacuating more than 1.11 lakh people in eight weeks from Kuwait/Iraq during the Gulf War. |
| 09/16/1995 |
Prime Minister inducts 16 new members into his Council of Ministers and elevates three deputy ministers to the rank of Ministers of State. |
| 09/16/1996 |
First one-day international in Canada played between India and Pakistan at Toronto. |
| 09/16/1996 |
J & K second phase poll for 34 seats. |
| 09/16/1997 |
General Manager of Tata Tea remanded to judicial custody on charges of abetting and aiding ULFA. |
| 09/16/1997 |
Rajeev Balakrishnan sets 100m national mark in the ITC International Athletics meet. |
| 09/16/2000 |
Aparna Popat loses to Kelly Morgan in the first round of the badminton event at the Sydney Olympics. |
| 09/16/2000 |
In an important pronouncement, the Rajasthan High Court declares Jains as a religious minority community and allows teaching institutions set up by them to enjoy minority status under Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution. |
