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What happened in history on this day: November 16?
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- 1272 - Death of King Henry III of England after 56 years reign.
- 1493 - The island of Puerto Rico is first sighted by Europeans on the second voyage of Christopher Columbus.
- 1532 - Francisco Pizarro, the Spanish explorer and conquistador, springs a trap on the Incan emperor, Atahualpa. Pizarro's 200 men massacre five thousand Incans and capture Atahualpa.
- 1632 - Armies of Swedish King Gustav Adolf and Imperial general Albrecht von Wallenstein meet in battle at Lützen. King Gustav is shot three times in a cavalry engagement early in the battle, and dies. Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar takes over command, and wins the battle. One-third (about 4500) of the Swedish-Finnish army is killed.
- 1676 - First colonial prison organized, Nantucket, Massachusetts.
- 1700 - Last day of Julian calendar in Iceland and Faero Islands. Next day is November 28.
- 1766 - Birth of Rodolphe Kreutzer France, composer/virtuoso violinist (Paris Conserv).
- 1776 - Hessians capture Fort Washington, Manhattan.
- 1841 - N.E. Guerin of New York patents cork-filled life preserver.
- 1870 - Amadeo, Duke of Aosta, is elected King of Spain.
- 1873 - Birth of William Christopher Handy in Alabama, USA; jazz star (Saint Louis Blues).
- 1885 - Louis Riel, French rebel who fought against Canada, is executed at age 41.
- 1888 - Birth of Burnet Corwin Tuthill in New York City, New York, USA; composer (Laurentia).
- 1888 - Birth of Clinton Golden in Pennsylvania, USA; founder (United Steelworkers of America).
- 1889 - Birth of George S Kaufman in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; playwright (This is Show Business).
- 1894 - 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan.
- 1895 - Birth of Michael Arlen in Armenia; English writer (An American Verdict).
- 1895 - Birth of Paul Hindemith in Hanau, Germany; composer (Tutti Funtchen).
- 1896 - Electricity is first transmitted between a power plant (in Niagara Falls) and a city (Buffalo, New York).
- 1896 - Birth of Lawrence Tibbett in Bakersfield, California, USA; baritone (Metropolitan 1923-50).
- 1899 - Birth of Mary Margaret McBride in Paris, Missouri, USA; radio personality (WOR-AM, New York City).
- 1903 - Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty creates Canal Zone, gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama.
- 1904 - John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube.
- 1904 - Birth of Eddie Condon in Goodland, Indiana, USA; jazz guitarist (Eddie Condon's Floor Show).
- 1907 - Birth of Oliver Burgess Meredith AKA Burgess Meredith in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; actor (Mr Novak, Penguin - Batman, Rocky) (dies 1997).
- 1907 - Oklahoma becomes 46th US state.
- 1914 - Banks of the US Federal Reserve System open for business, in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Richmond, Atlanta, Chicago, Saint Louis, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Dallas, and San Francisco. The New York branch receives $100 million from member banks.
- 1916 - Birth of Daws Butler in Toledo, Ohio, USA; cartoon voice (Elroy Jetson - The Jetsons).
- 1918 - Serbs make Temesvár their military headquarters in occupied Bánát, Hungary.
- 1918 - Hungarian People's Republic is declared.
- 1919 - Hungarian National army under Miklos Horthy enters Budapest.
- 1920 - Qantas (Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited), the national airline of Australia, registers as an aerial carrier.
- 1920 - Postage meter first used in US in lieu of postage stamps.
- 1922 - Birth of Royal Dano in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Red Badge of Courage, Cocaine Wars, House II).
- 1924 - Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL and major-league football record).
- 1925 - American Association for the Advancement of Atheism is formed in New York.
- 1926 - New York Rangers' first game, beat Montreal Maroons 1-0.
- 1928 - Birth of Clu Gulager in Holdenville, Oklahoma, USA; actor (Virginian, Survivors, Tall Man).
- 1930 - Birth of Chinua Achebe; Nigerian writer (Christmas in Biafra).
- 1933 - Birth of Guy Stockwell in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Chris - Adventures in Paradise).
- 1933 - US President Franklin Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR.
- 1935 - Birth of Elizabeth Drew; journalist (Politics and Money: The Road to Corruption).
- 1936 - King Edward VIII tells British Prime Minister Baldwin that he intends to marry Wallis Simpson. Baldwin replies that Edward's choices are 1) forget it, 2) the government would resign, or 3) Edward should abdicate the throne. Edward responds that if the country opposed the marriage, he would abdicate.
- 1938 - Great Britain recognizes Italian empire over Ethiopia.
- 1941 - Birth of Ann Dore McLaughlin; US Secretary of Labor (1987-).
- 1942 - Birth of Donna McKechnie in Pontiac, Michigan, USA; actress/dancer (Company).
- 1944 - Birth of Joanna Pettet in London, England; actress (Knots Landing, Cry of the Innocent).
- 1945 - Birth of Martine van Hamel in Belgium; ballerina (New York City Ballet Co).
- 1945 - Yeshiva College (University), chartered in New York, first US Jewish College.
- 1948 - Birth of Steve Railsback; actor (Blue Monkey, Green Monkey, Escape 2000).
- 1950 - Birth of Carl J Meade in Illinois, USA; Major US Air Force/astronaut (STS 38, sk:STS-50).
- 1950 - Birth of David Leisure; actor (Joe Isuzu, Airplane, Charley - Empty Nest).
- 1953 - Birth of Griff Rhys Jones; British humorist/actor (Morons From Outer Space).
- 1955 - First speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (D.M. Campbell).
- 1958 - Birth of Marg Helgenberger in North Bend, Nebraska, USA; actress (China Beach, Ryan's Hope).
- 1959 - The Sound of Music opens on Broadway.
- 1961 - Sam Rayburn, US Speaker of the House for 17 years, dies.
- 1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 73 points versus New York Knicks.
- 1963 - Birth of Zina Garrison in Houston, Texas, USA; tennis player (1988 Olympics Gold, Bronze).
- 1964 - Birth of Dwight Gooden; pitcher (New York Mets).
- 1965 - Alexander King, writer (Jack Paar Show), dies at age 66.
- 1965 - The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe, which becomes the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet (Venus).
- 1966 - Birth of Tammy Lauren in San Diego, California, USA; actress (Angie, Out of the Blue).
- 1966 - Birth of Tricia Cast in Medford, New York, USA; actress (Amanda - Bad News Bear, The Young and the Restless).
- 1967 - Birth of Lisa Bonet in San Francisco, California, USA; actress (Cosby Show, Different World, Angel Heart).
- 1968 - The 100th episode of US TV show Hogan's Heroes airs.
- 1969 - Birth of Bryan Abrams; vocalist (Color Me Badd - "I Want to Sex You Up").
- 1970 - Birth of Martha Plimpton; actress (Goonies, Mosquito Coast).
- 1971 - Birth of Donald Wolf; computer game creator.
- 1973 - US President Richard Nixon authorizes construction of the Alaskan pipeline.
- 1973 - Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit.
- 1974 - First intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away.
- 1974 - Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record).
- 1976 - Rick Barry (San Francisco Warriors), ends then longest NBA free-throw streak of 60.
- 1977 - The film Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens in theaters.
- 1978 - Death of Claude Dauphin at age 75, French actor (Paris Precinct) (born 1903).
- 1978 - Major Indoor Soccer League holds its first draft.
- 1979 - Bucharest Metro Line One is opened, in Bucharest, Romania (from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea stations, 8.63 km).
- 1981 - Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. TV soap opera General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.
- 1982 - In Albania, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake occurs.
- 1982 - 5th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 5-lands at Edwards Air Force Base.
- 1982 - Agreement reached ending 57-day football strike.
- 1983 - A jury in Gretna, Louisiana acquits Ginny Foat of the murder of Argentine businessman Moses Chaiyo.
- 1983 - Birth of Fallon Bowman; South African-born guitarist (Kittie).
- 1983 - In Hawaii, a magnitude 6.7 earthquake occurs.
- 1984 - 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) - Discovery 2 - lands at Kennedy Center.
- 1984 - Houston Rockets player blocks 20 Denver Nuggets shots tying NBA regulation game record.
- 1987 - Death of Zubir Said, Singaporean composer who composed Singapore's national anthem (born 1907).
- 1988 - In the first open election in eleven years, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister.
- 1988 - The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
- 1988 - Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for US$125 million for libel.
- 1989 - In San Salvador, El Salvador, an elite commando unit kills six Jesuit priests and their housekeeper and housekeeper's daughter.
- 1989 - South African President F.W. de Klerk announces the scrapping of the Separate Amenities Act.
- 1989 - UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference.
- 1990 - Fox releases the film Home Alone to theaters.
- 1990 - Disney releases the Mickey Mouse animated short film The Prince and the Pauper to theatres.
- 1990 - Disney generally releases the film The Rescuers Down Under to theaters.
- 1990 - Manuel Noriega claims US denied him a fair trial.
- 1991 - The NBC TV network begins airing the Walter and Emily show.
- 1994 - Death of Doris Speed at age 95; English actress (Annie Walker - Coronation Street TV show).
- 1994 - A Federal judge issues a temporary restraining order, prohibiting the State of California from implementing Proposition 187, that would have denied most public services to illegal aliens.
- 1995 - A United Nations tribunal charges Radovan Karadžic and Ratko Mladic with genocide during the Bosnian War.
- 1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary U.S. citizenship.
- 1997 - The Toronto Argonauts win their second consecutive Canadian Football League title by defeating the Saskatchewan Roughriders 47-23 to win the 85th Grey Cup at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta.
- 1997 - FOX airs the 100th episode of TV show X-Files.
- 1999 - Death of Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1928).
- 2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting U.S. President to visit Vietnam.
- 2001 - Warner Bros. releases the film Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to theaters.
- 2002 - A Campaign against Climate Change march takes place in London, England, from Lincoln's Inn Fields, past Esso offices to the United States Embassy.
- 2003 - The Edmonton Eskimos win the Canadian Football League Championship for the first time in a decade, defeating the Montreal Alouettes 34-22 in the 91st Grey Cup at Taylor Field in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
- 2004 - The European Space Agency probe, Smart 1, passes from Earth orbit into the orbit of the Moon.
- 2004 - A train crash near Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia, injures 150 people.
- 2004 - The People's Republic of China agrees to invest $20 billion dollars in Argentina, a deal signed days before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum to be held in Santiago, Chile.
- 2004 - NASA's hypersonic Scramjet breaks a record by reaching a velocity of about 7,000 mph in an unmanned experimental flight. It obtains a speed of Mach 9.6, almost ten times the speed of sound.
- 2005 - Death of Ralph Edwards of congestive heart failure at age 92; announcer/host/producer (Truth or Consequences radio show, This Is Your Life TV show).
- 2006 - NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office observes two Leonid asteroids hit the Moon, making 11 confirmed impacts in one year.
- 2006 - Death of Milton Friedman, American economist, proponent of global capitalism, Nobel Prize laureate, at age 94 (born 1912).
- 2006 - Rioting in Nuku'alofa, the capital of Tonga, destroys about 80 percent of the CBD; eight bodies found and foreign forces requested.
- 2007 - 4,000 people are killed by flooding by Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh. Cost of damage totals US$2.3 billion.
- 2008 - Iraqi cabinet approves a withdrawal agreement for American troops to leave Iraqi cities and towns by the end of June 2009, and the country by the end of 2011.
- 2008 - Death of Reg Varney, British actor (Stan Butcher - On the Buses), at age 92.
- 2019 - Death of Terry O'Neill at age 81; British photographer of the stars over 60 years (Daily Sketch, Brigitte Bardot, Nelson Mandela, Michael Caine, Mick Jagger, Dustin Hoffman, Elton John, David Bowie, Faye Dunaway).
- 2020 - Hurricane Iota makes landfall in Nicaragua as a Category 4 hurricane, devastating the area.
- 2020 - Moderna's mRNA vaccine is proven to be 94.5% effective against COVID-19 based on interim results, including severe illnesses.
- 2020 - SpaceX Dragon caspsule delivers four astronauts to the International Space Station.
- 2021 - Russia draws international condemnation following an anti-satellite weapon test that creates a cloud of space debris, threatening the International Space Station.
- 2021 - Sotheby's auctions a self-portrait of Frida Kahlo for record-breaking US$34.9 million.
- 2022 - NASA launches the unmanned Space Launch System, destined for the Moon.
- 2022 - Death of Robert Clary at age 96 at home in Beverly Hills, California, USA; actor (Hogan's Heroes TV show).
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