November 16

Categories: Days

November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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Events

534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
1384 - Hedwig is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1532 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
1821 - American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1849 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his execution is canceled at the last minute.
1857 - The relief of Lucknow. The most Victoria Crosses won in a single day (24).
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee. Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.
1885 - Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for high treason.
1893 - Athletic Club Královské Vinohrady is founded. Later the team was renamed to Sparta Prague.
1896 - First transmission of electrical power between two cities was sent from Niagara Falls to industries in Buffalo, New York. (See War of Currents.)
1904 - John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube.
1906 - Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a woman's bottom in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo.
1907 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
1914 - The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business.
1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
1940 - World War II: In response to Germany leveling Coventry two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
1940 - Holocaust: In Poland, Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
1940 - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1943 - World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vermork, Norway.
1945 - Cold War: The United States controversially imports 88 German scientists to help in the production of rocket technology.
1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.
1965 - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
1969 - The first episode of The Clangers is broadcast by the BBC.
1973 - Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1973 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens in theaters.
1979 - The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
1980 - Louis Althusser murders his wife and immediately confesses.
1981 - Luke and Laura marry on General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.
1988 - The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that the Estonia was "sovereign" but stopped short of declaring independence.
1988 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister.
1989 - A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops, most of them trained by the School of the Americas, kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
1990 - Rocky V is the 5th and final Rocky sequel to open in theaters, starring Sylvester Stallone.
1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship.
1997 - After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting US President to visit Vietnam.
2001 - The first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, is released, becoming the second highest grossing film around the world of all time.
2004 - X-43A scramjet becomes the fastest air-breathing jet flying at nearly Mach 10 at approx. 11,200 km/h or 3.11 km/s