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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)