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November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar , with 45 days remaining.
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Events 534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
1384 - Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland , although she is a woman.
1491 - An auto de fe , held in Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila , concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
1532 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa .
1632 - The Battle of Lützen , where king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is killed.
1776 - American Revolutionary War : Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots .
1776 - American Revolution : The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States , the first country in the world to do so (This is a controversial statement, because other sources say that the Kingdom of Morocco was the first to extend diplomatic recognition to the new United States).
1805 - Napoleonic Wars : Battle of Schöngrabern - Russian force under Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat .
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 - Second 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 treason .
1896 - First transmission of electricity between a power plant and a city was sent from the Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant to industries in Buffalo, New York .
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 .
1907 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania sister ship of RMS Lusitania , sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City .
1914 - The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1920 - Qantas , the national airline of Australia is registered as an aerial carrier under the name of “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited”. Only KLM (now part of Air France-KLM ) is older.
1932 - New York City 's Palace Theatre fully coverted to a cinema , which is considered the final death knell of vaudeville as a popular entertainment in the United States.
1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations .
1934 - James J. Braddock won one of the most important fights of his career against then future heavyweight champion John Henry Lewis
1940 - World War II : In response to Germany 's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg .
1940 - Holocaust : In occupied Poland , German 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 .
1944 - Dueren , Germany is completely destroyed by Allied aerial bombers.
1945 - Cold War : The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists & engineers to help in the production of rocket technology.
1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.
1959 - The Broadway musical , The Sound of Music , starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
1965 - Venera program : The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus , the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet .
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 1979 - The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea in Bucharest , Romania .
1981 - Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera General Hospital daytime television history.
1984 - Queen Elizabeth II visited Uppingham School , Rutland, UK on the occasion of its Quatercentenary.
1988 - The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that 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 of Pakistan .
1989 - A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University .
1989 - Devastating tornado strikes Huntsville, Alabama .
1989 - UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference.
1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship.
1996 - The Jumbotron at Buffalo 's HSBC Arena falls to the ice hours before a hockey game; no one is injured.
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 serving U.S. President to visit Vietnam .
2001 - The first Harry Potter Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone in the United States ), is released in theatres in the United Kingdom , United States , Canada and Mexico .
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.
Births 42 BC - Tiberius , Roman emperor (d. 37 )
1603 - Augustyn Kordecki , Polish prior (d. 1673 )
1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert , French mathematician (d. 1793 )
1720 - Carlo Antonio Campioni , Italian composer (d. 1788 )
1766 - Rodolphe Kreutzer , French violinist (d. 1831 )
1836 - David Kalakaua of Hawaii , Hawaiian king (d. 1891 )
1839 - Louis-Honoré Fréchette , French Canadian poet (d. 1908 )
1841 - Jules Violle , French physicist (d. 1923 )
1847 - Edmund James Flynn , Canadian politician (d. 1927 )
1862 - Charles Turner , Australian cricketer (d. 1944 )
1880 - Alexander Blok , Russian poet (d. 1921 )
1885 - Michael Gonzi , Maltese archbishop (d. 1984 )
1873 - W. C. Handy , American composer (d. 1958 )
1889 - George S. Kaufman , American playwright (d. 1961 )
1892 - Mabel Normand , American actress (d. 1930 )
1892 - Guo Moruo , Chinese writer (d. 1978 )
1895 - Paul Hindemith , German composer (d. 1963 )
1896 - Oswald Mosley , British fascist (d. 1980 )
1896 - Lawrence Tibbett , American singer (d. 1960 )
1897 - Choudhary Rehmat Ali , Pakistani nationalist (d. 1951 )
1905 - Eddie Condon , American musician (d. 1973 )
1907 - Burgess Meredith , American actor (d. 1997 )
1916 - Daws Butler , voice actor (d. 1988 )
1922 - Gene Amdahl , American computer scientist
1922 - José Saramago , Portuguese writer, Nobel laureate
1924 - Mel Patton , American athlete
1928 - Clu Gulager , American actor
1930 - Chinua Achebe , Nigerian author
1930 - Salvatore Riina , Sicilian mafioso
1931 - Hubert Sumlin , American blues musician
1933 - Garnet Mimms , American singer
1938 - Robert Nozick , American philosopher (d. 2002 )
1942 - Willie Carson , Scottish jockey
1942 - Joanna Pettet , English-American actress
1943 - Michael Cimino , American film director
1946 - Terrence McKenna , American writer (d. 2000 )
1950 - David Leisure , American actor
1951 - Miguel Sandoval , American actor
1952 - Robin McKinley , writer
1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto , Japanese video game designer
1954 - Andrea Barrett , American author
1954 - Bruce Freud , One of the creators of LiquidGeneration.com
1954 - Bruce Edwards , golf caddy (d. 2004 )
1955 - Pierre Larouche , National Hockey League player
1957 - Jacques Gamblin , French actor
1958 - Marg Helgenberger , American actress
1958 - Boris Krivokapić , Serbian academic
1961 - Frank Bruno , British boxer
1962 - Josh Silver , American musician (Type O Negative )
1964 - Dwight Gooden , American athlete
1964 - Diana Krall , Canadian singer
1964 - Valeria Bruni Tedeschi , Italian actress
1966 - Dean McDermott , Canadian actor
1966 - Christian Lorenz , German keyboardist (Rammstein )
1967 - Lisa Bonet , American actress
1967 - Craig Arnold , American poet
1968 - Vlado Šola , Croatian handball goalkeeper
1969 - Maeve Quinlan , American actress
1970 - Martha Plimpton , American actress
1971 - Alexander Popov , Russian swimmer
1971 - Waqar Younis , Pakistani cricketer
1972 - Missi Pyle , American actress
1973 - Brendan Laney , Scottish rugby player
1974 - Paul Scholes , British footballer
1976 - Danny Wallace , British author
1976 - Martijn Zuijdweg , Dutch swimmer
1977 - Oksana Baiul , Ukrainian figure skater
1977 - Maggie Gyllenhaal , American actress
1977 - Mauricio Ochmann , Mexican actor
1978 - Gary Naysmith , Scottish footballer
1980 - Kayte Christensen , American basketball player
1981 - Allison Crowe , Canadian singer
1981 - Caitlin Glass , American actress
1982 - Amare Stoudemire , American basketball player
1983 - K , South Korean singer
1984 - Kimberly J. Brown , American actress
1984 - Gemma Atkinson , British actress and model
Deaths 1093 - Saint Margaret of Scotland , wife of Malcolm III of Scotland
1240 - Edmund Rich , St. Edmund of Canterbury
1272 - King Henry III of England (b. 1207 )
1328 - Prince Hisaaki , Japanese shogun (b. 1276 )
1613 - Trajano Boccalini , Italian satirist (b. 1556 )
1628 - Paolo Quagliati , Italian composer
1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (killed in battle) (b. 1594 )
1695 - Pierre Nicole , French philosopher (b. 1625 )
1724 - Jack Sheppard , English burglar (hanged) (b. 1702 )
1745 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde , Irish statesman and soldier (b. 1665 )
1773 - John Hawkesworth , English writer
1779 - Pehr Kalm , Finnish explorer and naturalist (b. 1716 )
1790 - Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer , American Continental Congressman (b. 1723 )
1797 - Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744 )
1802 - André Michaux , French botanist (b. 1746 )
1806 - Moses Cleaveland , founder of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754 )
1836 - Christian Hendrik Persoon , Dutch mycologist (b. 1761 )
1884 - František Chvostek , Moravian physician (b. 1835 )
1885 - Louis Riel , Canadian politician (b. 1844 )
1907 - Robert I, Duke of Parma , last ruling Duke of Parma (b. 1848 )
1908 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière , French-born Canadian politician (b. 1829 )
1911 - Albert Alonzo Ames , Mayor of Minneapolis (b. 1842 )
1922 - Max Abraham , German physicist (b. 1875 )
1939 - Pierce Butler , U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1866 )
1950 - Bob Smith , American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous (b. 1879 )
1960 - Clark Gable , American actor (b. 1901 )
1961 - Sam Rayburn , U.S. Speaker of the House (b. 1882 )
1972 - Vera Karalli , Russian ballerina and actress (b. 1889 )
1973 - Alan Watts , English writer (b. 1915 )
1981 - William Holden , American actor (b. 1918 )
1982 - Arthur Askey , British comedian (b. 1900 )
1982 - Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov , Russian mathematician (b. 1896 )
1984 - Vic Dickenson , American trombonist (b. 1906 )
1986 - Siobhán McKenna , Irish stage and screen actress (b. 1923 )
1987 - Jim Brewer , Major League Baseball relief pitcher (b. 1937 )
1993 - Achille Zavatta , French clown (b. 1915 )
1993 - Lucia Popp , Slovakian soprano (b. 1939 )
1994 - Doris Speed , British actress (b. 1899 )
1994 - Dino Valente , American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service ) (b.1943 )
1995 - Jack Finney , American author (b. 1911 )
1999 - Daniel Nathans , American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928 )
2000 - DJ Screw , American hiphop DJ (b. 1971 )
2000 - Joe C. , American rapper (b. 1974 )
2001 - Tommy Flanagan , American jazz pianist (b. 1930 )
2003 - Bettina Goislard , French relief worker (b. 1974 )
2005 - Henry Taube , Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915 )
2005 - Robert Tisch , American football team owner (b. 1926 )
2005 - Donald Watson , English founder of the Vegan Society (b. 1910 )
2006 - Art Donovan , American football player (b. 1925 )
2006 - Milton Friedman , American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912 )
2006 - Yuri Levada , Russian sociologist (b. 1930 )
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