16 November
November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining.
Events
1500-1899
1900-1999
- 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 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.
2000-2099
Births
50 BCE-1899
- 42 BCE - Tiberius, Roman emperor (d.
37)
- 1717 - Jean
le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician and encyclopædist (d. 1793)
- 1720 - Carlo
Antonio Campioni, composer (d. 1788)
- 1766 - Rodolphe
Kreutzer, French violinist (d. 1831)
- 1836 - David
Kalakaua of Hawaii, last king of the Kingdom of Hawaii (d.
1891)
- 1873 - W. C. Handy, American
blues composer (d. 1958)
- 1889 - George Kaufman,
playwright (d. 1961)
- 1894 - Richard Coudenhove Kalergi, politician (d. 1972)
- 1895 - Paul Hindemith, German
composer (d.1963)
- 1896 - Lawrence Tibbett,
American actor and singer (d. 1960)
- 1896 - Oswald Mosley, British fascist (d. 1980)
1900-1999
- 1905 - Eddie Condon, jazz musician (d. 1973)
- 1907 - Burgess Meredith,
actor (d. 1997)
- 1916 - Daws Butler, voice actor (d.
1988)
- 1922 - José Saramago, author,
recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature
1998
- 1922 - Gene Amdahl, computer scientist
- 1924 - Mel Patton, American
athlete
- 1924 - James Bond, fictional character
- 1928 - Clu Gulager, American actor
- 1930 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian
author
- 1937 - Lothar Späth, German politician
- 1938 - Robert Nozick,
philosopher
- 1943 - Michael Cimino, film
director
- 1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto,
video game legend
- 1958 - Marg
Helgenberger, American actress
- 1964 - Diana Krall, singer
- 1967 - Lisa Bonet, actress
- 1975 - Andrew Howard, physicist/astronomer
- 1977 - Oksana Baiul, figure skating champion
Deaths
1200-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
November 15 - November
17 - October 16 - December
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