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Notable anniversaries in history for today: November 16
- 100th: 1924 - Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL and major-league football record).
- 80th: 1944 - Birth of Joanna Pettet in London, England; actress (Knots Landing, Cry of the Innocent).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Dwight Gooden; pitcher (New York Mets).
- 50th: 1974 - First intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away.
- 50th: 1974 - Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record).
- 40th: 1984 - 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) - Discovery 2 - lands at Kennedy Center.
- 40th: 1984 - Houston Rockets player blocks 20 Denver Nuggets shots tying NBA regulation game record.
- 30th: 1994 - Death of Doris Speed at age 95; English actress (Annie Walker - Coronation Street TV show).
- 30th: 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.
- 25th: 1999 - Death of Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born 1928).
- 20th: 2004 - The European Space Agency probe, Smart 1, passes from Earth orbit into the orbit of the Moon.
- 20th: 2004 - A train crash near Bundaberg in Queensland, Australia, injures 150 people.
- 20th: 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.
- 20th: 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.
- 5th: 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).
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