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Date | Description | Type |
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16th of November 0534 | EVENT | A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published. |
16th of November 1491 | EVENT | An auto-da-fe, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Avila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects. |
16th of November 1532 | EVENT | Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa. |
16th of November 1776 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots. |
16th of November 1776 | EVENT | American Revolution: the United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States. |
16th of November 1805 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schongrabern : Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat. |
16th of November 1821 | EVENT | American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail. |
16th of November 1849 | EVENT | A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor. |
16th of November 1852 | EVENT | The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope. |
16th of November 1857 | EVENT | Second relief of Lucknow : twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day. |
16th of November 1863 | EVENT | American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee : Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces. |
16th of November 1885 | EVENT | Canadian rebel leader of the Metis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for treason. |
16th of November 1907 | EVENT | Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, that is admitted as the 46th U.S. state. |
16th of November 1907 | EVENT | Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania, sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City. |
16th of November 1914 | EVENT | The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens. |
16th of November 1938 | EVENT | LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland. |
16th of November 1940 | EVENT | World War II: in response to the leveling of Coventry, England by Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg. |
16th of November 1940 | EVENT | Holocaust: in occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world. |
16th of November 1943 | EVENT | World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway. |
16th of November 1944 | EVENT | Dueren, Germany is destroyed by Allied bombers. |
16th of November 1945 | EVENT | Cold War: Operation Paperclip : the United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology. |
16th of November 1945 | EVENT | UNESCO is founded. |
16th of November 1965 | EVENT | Venera program: the Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, that will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. |
16th of November 1973 | EVENT | Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission. |
16th of November 1973 | EVENT | U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline. |
16th of November 1979 | EVENT | The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea in Bucharest, Romania. |
16th of November 1988 | EVENT | The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence. |
16th of November 1988 | EVENT | In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan. |
16th of November 1989 | EVENT | A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University. |
16th of November 1992 | EVENT | The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk. |
16th of November 1997 | EVENT | After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons. |
16th of November 2000 | EVENT | Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. |
16th of November 1436 | BIRTHDAY | Leonardo Loredan, Doge of the Republic of Venice (d. 1521) |
16th of November 1603 | BIRTHDAY | Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (d. 1673) |
16th of November 1643 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Chardin, French explorer (d. 1703) |
16th of November 1717 | BIRTHDAY | Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1793) |
16th of November 1720 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Antonio Campioni, Italian composer (d. 1788) |
16th of November 1753 | BIRTHDAY | James McHenry, American statesman (d. 1816) |
16th of November 1758 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Andreas Heiberg, Danish author and philologist (d. 1841) |
16th of November 1766 | BIRTHDAY | Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist (d. 1831) |
16th of November 1836 | BIRTHDAY | King Kalakaua, of Hawai?i (d. 1891) |
16th of November 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Louis-Honore Frechette, French Canadian poet (d. 1908) |
16th of November 1841 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Violle, French physicist (d. 1923) |
16th of November 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Edmund James Flynn, Canadian politician (d. 1927) |
16th of November 1851 | BIRTHDAY | Minnie Hauk, American soprano (d. 1929) |
16th of November 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (d. 1944) |
16th of November 1873 | BIRTHDAY | W. C. Handy, American composer (d. 1958) |
16th of November 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921) |
16th of November 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Monsignor Sir Mikiel Gonzi, Maltese archbishop (d. 1984) |
16th of November 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan composer and pianist (d. 1957) |
16th of November 1889 | BIRTHDAY | George S. Kaufman, American playwright (d. 1961) |
16th of November 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Dietrich Kraiss, German Nazi officer (d. 1944) |
16th of November 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Elpidio Quirino, 6th President of the Philippines (d. 1956) |
16th of November 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Guo Moruo, Chinese writer (d. 1978) |
16th of November 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (d. 1953) |
16th of November 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918) |
16th of November 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963) |
16th of November 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (d. 1982) |
16th of November 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Oswald Mosley, British politician and founder of the British Union of Fascists (d. 1980) |
16th of November 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Lindsay, Australian novelist (d. 1984) |
16th of November 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Tibbett, American baritone (d. 1960) |
16th of November 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (d. 1951) |
16th of November 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Mary Margaret McBride, American radio interview host (d. 1976) |
16th of November 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Nnamdi Azikiwe, 1st President of Nigeria (d. 1996) |
16th of November 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Condon, American jazz banjoist and guitarist (d. 1973) |
16th of November 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997) |
16th of November 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Chapman, British World War II spy and double agent, aka Agent Zigzag (d. 1997) |
16th of November 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Daws Butler, American voice actor (d. 1988) |
16th of November 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist |
16th of November 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Saramago, Portuguese novelist, Nobel laureate (d. 2010) |
16th of November 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Patton, American sprinter |
16th of November 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Clu Gulager, American actor |
16th of November 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelis, poet and academic |
16th of November 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Salvatore Riina, Italian Mafia leader |
16th of November 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist (d. 2006) |
16th of November 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Hubert Sumlin, American blues guitarist (Howlin' Wolf's band) |
16th of November 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Garnet Mimms, American singer |
16th of November 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-born Lebanese Shiite Muslim cleric and Hezbollah mentor (d. 2010) |
16th of November 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Drew, American journalist and author |
16th of November 1936 | BIRTHDAY | John Moore, Australian politician |
16th of November 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002) |
16th of November 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Donna McKechnie, American actress and dancer |
16th of November 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Gerry Marshall, British race car driver (d. 2005) |
16th of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Carson, Scottish jockey |
16th of November 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Joanna Pettet, English actress |
16th of November 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Oliver Braddick, British psychologist |
16th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Terence McKenna, American writer and public speaker (d. 2000) |
16th of November 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jo Jo White, American basketball player |
16th of November 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ebby Thust, German boxing promoter and writer |
16th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Horst Bertram, German footballer |
16th of November 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Bonnie Greer, American playwright and critic |
16th of November 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Arrow, Montserratian soca musician (d. 2010) |
16th of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | David Leisure, American actor |
16th of November 1950 | BIRTHDAY | John Swartzwelder, American television writer and novelist |
16th of November 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Miguel Sandoval, American actor |
16th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Robin McKinley, American novelist |
16th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Piero Falchetta, Italian archivist in Biblioteca Marciana, essayist and translator |
16th of November 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer |
16th of November 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, writer and actor |
16th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Edwards, American golf caddy (d. 2004) |
16th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Barrett, American novelist |
16th of November 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Dick Gross, Australian politician |
16th of November 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Larouche, Canadian ice hockey player |
16th of November 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Labonte, American NASCAR driver |
16th of November 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Gamblin, French actor |
16th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Marg Helgenberger, American actress |
16th of November 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Krivokapic, Serbian academic |
16th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Bruno, British boxer |
16th of November 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Corinne Hermes, French singer |
16th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Mounfield, English bassist (The Stone Roses, Primal Scream) |
16th of November 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Silver, American keyboardist (Type O Negative) |
16th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Dwight Gooden, American baseball player |
16th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Krall, Canadian jazz pianist and singer |
16th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Maeve Quinlan, American actress |
16th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Italian actress |
16th of November 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Harry J. Lennix, American actor |
16th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mika Aaltonen, Finnish footballer |
16th of November 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Benton, English actor |
16th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein) |
16th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Kushner, American guitarist (Velvet Revolver) |
16th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Tahir Shah, British travel writer and explorer |
16th of November 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Dean McDermott, Canadian actor |
16th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Arnold, American poet |
16th of November 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Bonet, American actress |
16th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Vlado Sola, Croatian handball goalkeeper |
16th of November 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Melvin Stewart, American swimmer |
16th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Martha Plimpton, American actress |
16th of November 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Logan Mader, American guitarist (Machine Head) |
16th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer |
16th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Koshi Rikdo, Japanese mangaka |
16th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Mustapha Hadji, Moroccan footballer |
16th of November 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Waqar Younis, Pakistani cricketer |
16th of November 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Missi Pyle, American actress |
16th of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Horner, British Formula One team owner |
16th of November 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Laney, Scottish rugby player |
16th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Judy, American bassist (Modest Mouse) |
16th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Maurizio Margaglio, Italian ice dancer |
16th of November 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Scholes, British footballer |
16th of November 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Lugo, Dominican baseball player |
16th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Juha Pasoja, Finnish footballer |
16th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Mario Barravecchia, Belgian singer |
16th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Wallace, British author |
16th of November 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Martijn Zuijdweg, Dutch swimmer |
16th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Oksana Baiul, Ukrainian figure skater |
16th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress |
16th of November 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Mauricio Ochmann, Mexican actor |
16th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kip Bouknight, American baseball player |
16th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Naysmith, Scottish footballer |
16th of November 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Carolina Parra, Brazilian guitarist and drummer (CSS) |
16th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Frias, American footballer |
16th of November 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Bruce Irons, American surfer |
16th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Nicole Gius, Italian alpine skier |
16th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Carol Huynh, Canadian freestyle wrestler |
16th of November 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kayte Christensen, American basketball player |
16th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Caitlin Glass, American voice actress |
16th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Allison Crowe, Canadian singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist |
16th of November 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Osi Umenyiora, English-born American football player |
16th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jannie du Plessis, South African rugby player |
16th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Amar'e Stoudemire, American basketball player |
16th of November 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Pognon, French sprinter |
16th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Gocong, American football player |
16th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Britta Steffen, German swimmer |
16th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Kari Lehtonen, Finnish ice hockey goaltender |
16th of November 1983 | BIRTHDAY | K, South Korean-born Japanese singer |
16th of November 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kimberly J. Brown, American actress |
16th of November 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Saeko, Japanese actress |
16th of November 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor |
16th of November 1093 | DEATH | Saint Margaret of Scotland, Hungarian-born queen-consort of King Malcolm III of Scotland (Born c. 1045) |
16th of November 1240 | DEATH | Saint Edmund Rich, English Archbishop of Canterbury (Born c. 1175) |
16th of November 1272 | DEATH | King Henry III of England (Born 1207) |
16th of November 1328 | DEATH | Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (Born 1276) |
16th of November 1613 | DEATH | Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (Born 1556) |
16th of November 1628 | DEATH | Paolo Quagliati, Italian composer (Born c. 1555) |
16th of November 1632 | DEATH | King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (Born 1594) |
16th of November 1695 | DEATH | Pierre Nicole, French philosopher (Born 1625) |
16th of November 1724 | DEATH | Jack Sheppard, English burglar (Born 1702) |
16th of November 1745 | DEATH | James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde, Irish statesman and soldier (Born 1665) |
16th of November 1773 | DEATH | John Hawkesworth, English writer |
16th of November 1779 | DEATH | Pehr Kalm, Finnish explorer and naturalist (Born 1716) |
16th of November 1790 | DEATH | Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, American Continental Congressman (Born 1723) |
16th of November 1797 | DEATH | King Frederick William II of Prussia (Born 1744) |
16th of November 1802 | DEATH | Andre Michaux, French botanist (Born 1746) |
16th of November 1806 | DEATH | Moses Cleaveland, American lawyer and surveyor; namesake of Cleveland, Ohio (Born 1754) |
16th of November 1836 | DEATH | Christian Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (Born 1761) |
16th of November 1878 | DEATH | Princess Marie of Hesse and by Rhine (Born 1874) |
16th of November 1884 | DEATH | Frantisek Chvostek, Moravian physician (Born 1835) |
16th of November 1885 | DEATH | Louis Riel, Canadian politician (Born 1844) |
16th of November 1907 | DEATH | Robert I, Duke of Parma (Born 1848) |
16th of November 1908 | DEATH | Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbiniere, French-born Canadian politician (Born 1829) |
16th of November 1911 | DEATH | A. A. Ames, American politician (Born 1842) |
16th of November 1922 | DEATH | Max Abraham, German physicist (Born 1875) |
16th of November 1939 | DEATH | Pierce Butler, American lawyer and jurist (Born 1866) |
16th of November 1950 | DEATH | Bob Smith, American physician and temperance activist (Born 1879) |
16th of November 1956 | DEATH | Otori Tanigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Yokozuna (Born 1887) |
16th of November 1960 | DEATH | Clark Gable, American actor (Born 1901) |
16th of November 1961 | DEATH | Sam Rayburn, American politician (Born 1882) |
16th of November 1971 | DEATH | Edie Sedgwick, American socialite and heiress (Born 1940) |
16th of November 1972 | DEATH | Vera Karalli, Russian ballerina and actress (Born 1889) |
16th of November 1973 | DEATH | Alan Watts, English writer and philosopher (Born 1915) |
16th of November 1974 | DEATH | Walther Meissner, German technical physicist (Born 1882) |
16th of November 1980 | DEATH | Jayan, Indian actor (Born1938) |
16th of November 1981 | DEATH | William Holden, American actor (Born 1918) |
16th of November 1982 | DEATH | Arthur Askey, British comedian (Born 1900) |
16th of November 1982 | DEATH | Lenny Murphy, Northern Irish loyalist figure (Born 1952) |
16th of November 1984 | DEATH | Vic Dickenson, American trombonist (Born 1906) |
16th of November 1986 | DEATH | Siobhan McKenna, Irish stage and screen actress (Born 1923) |
16th of November 1987 | DEATH | Jim Brewer, American baseball player (Born 1937) |
16th of November 1987 | DEATH | Zubir Said, Singaporean composer (Born 1907) |
16th of November 1989 | DEATH | Jean-Claude Malepart, Quebec politician (Born 1938) |
16th of November 1993 | DEATH | Achille Zavatta, Tunisia-born French clown (Born 1915) |
16th of November 1993 | DEATH | Lucia Popp, Slovakian soprano (Born 1939) |
16th of November 1994 | DEATH | Chet Powers, American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service) (Born 1943) |
16th of November 1994 | DEATH | Doris Speed, British actress (Born 1899) |
16th of November 1995 | DEATH | Jack Finney, American writer (Born 1911) |
16th of November 1999 | DEATH | Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (Born 1928) |
16th of November 2000 | DEATH | Ahmet Kaya, Turkish singer and composer (Born 1957) |
16th of November 2000 | DEATH | DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (Born 1971) |
16th of November 2000 | DEATH | Joe C., American rapper (Born 1974) |
16th of November 2001 | DEATH | Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (Born 1930) |
16th of November 2003 | DEATH | Bettina Goislard, French relief worker (Born 1974) |
16th of November 2004 | DEATH | Margaret Hassan, Irish aid worker (Born 1945) |
16th of November 2005 | DEATH | Henry Taube, Canadian-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (Born 1915) |
16th of November 2005 | DEATH | Robert Tisch, American football team owner (Born 1926) |
16th of November 2005 | DEATH | Donald Watson, English vegan advocate (Born 1910) |
16th of November 2006 | DEATH | Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel laureate (Born 1912) |
16th of November 2006 | DEATH | Yuri Levada, Russian sociologist (Born 1930) |
16th of November 2007 | DEATH | Harold Alfond, American businessman (Born 1914) |
16th of November 2007 | DEATH | Grethe Kausland, Norwegian actress and singer (Born 1947) |
16th of November 2007 | DEATH | Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author (Born 1946) |
16th of November 2008 | DEATH | Reg Varney, British actor (Born 1916) |
16th of November 2009 | DEATH | Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (Born 1978) |
16th of November 2009 | DEATH | Edward Woodward, British actor (Born 1930) |
16th of November 2010 | DEATH | Wyngard Tracy, Filipino talent manager (Born 1952) |
16th of November 2010 | DEATH | Donald Nyrop, American airline executive (Born 1912) |
16th of November 2010 | DEATH | Ronni Chasen, American film publicist (Born 1946) |
16th of November 2010 | DEATH | Britton Chance, American molecular biologist and yachtsman (Born 1913) |