Notable Historical Events on November 16th
November 16th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
13 |
General Tiberius' (later Emperor) triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany |
534 |
A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published. |
1380 |
French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever |
1491 |
An auto de fe, held in the 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 captures Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca |
1572 |
Troops under Don Frederik (the Spanish General Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo) occupy and plunder Zutphen, Nmetherlands |
1632 |
Battle at Lutzen: Sweden beats imperial armies under Von Wallenstein |
1676 |
1st colonial prison organized, Nantucket Mass |
1677 |
French troops occupy Freiburg |
1700 |
Monarch of Brandenburg becomes king of Prussia |
1763 |
English journalist John Wilkes injured in a duel |
1764 |
Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac |
1771 |
West Indian Company & Amsterdam divide up Suriname |
1776 |
1st gun salute for an American warship in a foreign port - US Andrew Doria at Ft St Eustatius |
1776 |
British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution |
1798 |
Kentucky becomes first state to nullify an act of Congress |
1801 |
First edition of New York Evening Post |
1805 |
Battle at Schongrabern: Russian army stop French |
1824 |
NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business |
1835 |
Charles Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society |
1840 |
New Zealand officially becomes British colony |
1841 |
Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC) |
1849 |
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. |
1856 |
Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens |
1859 |
Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza" premieres in Moscow |
1863 |
Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities |
1864 |
Confederate retreat at Lovejoy, Georgia |
1864 |
Union General William T. Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War |
1869 |
Hamiora Pere is hanged at the Terrace Gaol, Wellington and is the only New Zealander to have been executed after being convicted of treason |
1870 |
Spanish Cortes selects King Amadeus I |
1875 |
Battle of Gundet: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians |
1875 |
William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities |
1882 |
British gunboat HMS Flirt fires at & destroys Abari village in Niger |
1894 |
6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan |
1894 |
French captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki, West Africa |
1901 |
3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds |
1903 |
V Herbert & H Smith' musical "Babette" premieres in NYC |
1905 |
Neth/Russ Count Witte becomes premier of Russia |
1907 |
Oklahoma becomes the United States 46th state |
1908 |
Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera |
1909 |
EVV Eindhoven soccer team forms |
1914 |
Federal Reserve System formally opens |
1914 |
Pope Benedict XV calls for peace |
1916 |
Eugene O'Neill's "Bound East for Cardiff" premieres in NYC |
1916 |
I Berlin/V Herbert/H Blossoms musical premieres in NYC |
1916 |
Russian La Satannaya ammunitions factory explodes, killing 1,000 |
1917 |
British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa |
1918 |
Hungarian People's Republic declared |
1919 |
Admiral Horthy conquerors Budapest from Béla Kuns Soviet Republic |
1920 |
Australia's Qantas airways founded in Winton, Queensland as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited |
1920 |
1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn |
1922 |
Pope Pius XI calls on Belgian people to unite |
1922 |
Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help |
1924 |
Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL & major-league football record) |
1925 |
American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY) |
1925 |
Philip Barry's "In a Garden" premieres in NYC |
1926 |
NY Rangers 1st game, beat Montreal Maroons 1-0 |
1933 |
Brazilian President Getulio Vargas declares himself dictator |
1933 |
Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR |
1935 |
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo" premieres in NYC |
1936 |
German air force begins bombing of Madrid |
1938 |
K B Regiment refuses round-table conference in East-India |
1938 |
LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland. |
1939 |
Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail |
1939 |
German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland |
1940 |
World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg. |
1941 |
German troops conquer Kertsh (probably) |
1942 |
Assault of US B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed |
1943 |
World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway. |
1944 |
US 9th division & 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen |
1945 |
Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st US Jewish College |
1945 |
UNESCO is founded. |
1945 |
Two new elements discovered by Glenn Seaborg, James, Morgan and Albert Ghiorso were are announced: americium (atomic number 95) and curium (atomic number 96) |
1947 |
15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of nazis |
1948 |
Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel |
1950 |
Egyptian King Faruk demands departure of all British troops |
1950 |
UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps |
1950 |
US president Harry Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat |
1952 |
Papagos' Greek Concentratie wins Greeks parliamentary election |
1955 |
1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (Donald Campbell) |
1955 |
KLM orders 8 DC-8s |
1955 |
Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Yussuph V returns to Morocco |
1957 |
"Copper & Brass" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 perfs |
1957 |
Celtic Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49 rebounds beat Phila 111-89 |
1957 |
US murderer and bodysnatcher Ed Gein kills his last victim |
1957 |
Okla's NCAA win streak ends at 47 after losing to Notre Dame 7-0 |
1959 |
"Sound of Music" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 1443 perfs |
1960 |
NL batting champion Dick Groat wins MVP |
1961 |
Great Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth countries |
1961 |
US President Kennedy decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing US combat troops |
1962 |
Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic) |
1962 |
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 73 points vs NY Knicks |
1963 |
Toledo, OH newspaper strike began |
1963 |
Touch-tone telephone introduced |
1964 |
Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission |
1964 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1965 |
Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus) |
1965 |
Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow |
1966 |
Dr Sam Sheppard freed by a jury after 9 years in jail |
1966 |
Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente is named NL MVP |
1968 |
The Derry Citizens Action Committee defies a ban on marches in Derry, Northern Ireland, by marching with an estimated 15,000 people |
1969 |
1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai S Vietnam, by US is 1st reported |
1969 |
US President Nixon becomes first president to attend a season NFL game while in office: the Dallas Cowboys beat the Washington Redskins 41-28 |
1970 |
Two men are shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) |
1970 |
South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky defends operations in Cambodia because communist forces could overrun South Vietnam "within 24 hours" if troops operating there were withdrawn |
1970 |
Elton John records a show in New York City which was later released as his 11-17-70 album |
1971 |
The Compton inquiry is published, acknowledging that there was ill-treatment of internees, but rejected claims of systematic brutality or torture (Northern Ireland) |
1971 |
The US increase air activity to support the Cambodian government as fighting neared Phnom Penh |
1972 |
"Dear Oscar" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 5 performances |
1972 |
British Prime Minister Edward Heath warns against a Unilateral Declaration of Independence |
1973 |
John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album |
1973 |
US Presidennt Richard Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline |
1973 |
Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit |
1974 |
1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away |
1974 |
John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" |
1974 |
Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record) |
1974 |
ABBA begin their first tour of Europe - their first tour outside of Sweden |
1975 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Jacksonville Ladies Golf Open |
1976 |
René Levesque's Parti Québécois wins elections in Quebec |
1976 |
Rick Barry (SF), ends then longest NBA free throw streak of 60 |
1977 |
Rod Carew wins AL MVP award |
1978 |
Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft |
1979 |
Paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas" |
1980 |
Tampa Bay Buccaneer QB Doug Williams throws for 486 yards |
1981 |
"Merrily We Roll Along" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 performances |
1981 |
Dennis Lillee kicked Javed Miandad, who waved his bat at Dennis |
1981 |
President Reagan decides on a covert plan to block the Cuban aid to Nicaragua and El Salvador |
1982 |
5th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 5-lands at Edwards AFB |
1982 |
Aggrement reached ending 57 day football strike |
1982 |
Space Shuttle Columbia completes its 1st operational flight |
1982 |
Tom Stoppard's "Real Thing" premieres in London |
1983 |
Kapil Dev takes 9-83 v WI at Ahmedabad, but India still lose |
1984 |
14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Center |
1984 |
Houston blocks 20 Denver shots tying NBA regulation game record |
1984 |
Imran Khan makes his 1st appearance for NSW Cricket |
1984 |
John Lennon's 'Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him' released posthumously |
1985 |
President Reagan arrives in Geneva for a summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev |
1987 |
Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago" |
1988 |
Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs |
1988 |
Jose Canseco is 1st unanimous AL MVP since Reggie Jackson |
1988 |
Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years |
1988 |
Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel |
1988 |
President Reagan and the First Lady participate in the official state arrival ceremony, meetings and a state dinner with Margaret Thatcher |
1988 |
President Reagan meets with Jerusalem's mayor Teddy Kollek |
1989 |
"Gypsy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 477 performances |
1989 |
6 Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops |
1989 |
South Africa president FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act |
1989 |
UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference. |
1990 |
Manuel Noriega claims US denied him a fair trial |
1993 |
"Any Given Day" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 32 performances |
1993 |
Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum |
1995 |
US Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson's disease |
1995 |
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother undergoes hip surgery |
1996 |
"Into the Whirlwind" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 perfs |
1996 |
18th ACE Cable Awards: Lifetime wins the Golden CableACE for "Lifetime Applauds: The Fight Against Breast Cancer" |
1997 |
"1776" closes at Criterion Theater NYC |
1997 |
85th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Saskatchawan, 47-23 |
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. |
1998 |
Monica Lewinsky signs a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with US President Clinton |
2000 |
Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. |
2002 |
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says that he had to accept UN Resolution 1441 because the United States and Israel had shown their "claws and teeth" and declared unitlateral war on the Iraqi people |
2003 |
91st CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 34-22 |
2003 |
Lionel Messi makes his official debut for FC Barcelona |
2010 |
In University Park, Texas, the groundbreaking ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Center takes place |
2012 |
'Call of Duty: Black Ops 2' grosses $500 million in 24 hours to become the biggest entertainment launch of all time |
2015 |
French jets bomb Syria in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa |
2016 |
Dakota Access pipeline firms seek court relief; protests spread |
2016 |
Obama, on last trip to Europe, warns against nationalism, populism |
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