November 16

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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.

Table of contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

Events

1532 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Incan Emperor Atahualpa and his nobles.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
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.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Campbell Station near Knoxville, Tennessee. Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.
1885 - Canadian rebel leader of the M�tis, Louis Riel is executed for high treason.
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.
1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders list last victim Bernice Worden.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting US President to visit Vietnam.
2001 - The first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, is released, becoming the second highest grossing film around the world of all time.