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- 0534 A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
- 1384 Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
- 1491 An auto de fe, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of vila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
- 1532 Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
- 1532 Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca
- 1632 The Battle of Ltzen, where king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is killed.
- 1676 First colonial prison organized, Nantucket, Massachusetts
- 1776 Hessians capture Fort Washington, Manhattan
- 1798 Kentucky becomes first state to nullify an act of Congress
- 1801 The New York Post newspaper is founded.
- 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.
- 1841 N.E. Guerin of NY patents cork-filled life preserver
- 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.
- 1857 Second relief of Lucknow. The most Victoria Crosses won in a single day with 24.
- 1864 General William T. Sherman and his Union army troops begin their March to the Sea during the American Civil War.
- 1885 Canadian rebel leader of the Metis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for treason.
- 1894 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
- 1895 Samuel F. Smith, composer of America, dies.
- 1901 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds
- 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 City's Central Park Zoo.
- 1907 Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
- 1907 Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
- 1907 Oklahoma becomes 46th state
- 1908 Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera
- 1914 The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
- 1918 Hungarian People's Republic declared
- 1920 Postage meter first used in US in lieu of postage stamps
- 1920 Qantas, the national airline of Australia is registered as an aerial carrier under the name of Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited. Only KLM (now part of Air France-KLM) and Avianca are older.
- 1932 New York City's Palace Theatre is fully converted to a movie theater, which is considered to be the death of vaudeville as a popular form of entertainment in the United States.
- 1933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
- 1934 James J. Braddock wins one of the most important fights of his career against then future light heavyweight champion John Henry Lewis.
- 1939 Destruction of Talmudic Academy in Lublin and its huge library, which gave "so much pleasure to its conquerors that it was recalled with glee more than a year later."
- 1940 Holocaust: In occupied Poland, German Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
- 1940 Visitor posting - Bonnie Bryan was born - USA
- 1944 Dueren, Germany is completely destroyed by Allied bombers.
- 1944 Visitor posting - Dann L. Marble was born
- 1945 Yeshiva College (University), chartered in NY, first US Jewish College
- 1950 UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps
- 1952 USA explodes their first hydrogen-bomb.
- 1955 First speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (D.M. Campbell)
- 1955 Visitor posting - Gary Eaton born in 1955 Cooper - USA [email protected]
- 1957 Ed Gein butchers last victim
- 1957 Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.
- 1959 The Broadway musical, The Sound of Music, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
- 1959 The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music opens on Broadway.
- 1965 First public announcement about Walt Disney World
- 1965 Venera 3 launched, first to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)
- 1965 Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
- 1966 Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury
- 1967 Canadian Pacific begins testing Canada's first remote-controlled mid-train diesel locomotives in regular freight service, using new "Robot" radio-command system.
- 1969 The first public display of a moon rock takes place at the Museum of Natural History in New York City.
- 1973 President Nixon authorizes construction of the Alaskan pipeline
- 1973 Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit
- 1973 Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
- 1973 Visitor posting - VREJ TOROS KATOURJIAN BORN - USA
- 1974 First intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away
- 1974 John Lennon's #1 solo "Whatever Gets You Through the Night"
- 1974 Number one hit on UK music charts - David Essex - Gonna Make You A Star
- 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 the U.S. soap opera General Hospital. It is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.
- 1981 Luke marries Laura on General Hospital
- 1981 William Holden, actor, dies at age 63.
- 1982 5th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 5-lands at Edwards AFB
- 1982 Agreement reached ending 57 day football strike
- 1982 Visitor posting - Gordon Phillips was born in Houston, Texas, USA
- 1983 Visitor posting - November 16 1983 Breeyn Burnett Born
- 1984 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Center
- 1984 Queen Elizabeth II visits Uppingham School, Rutland, United Kingdom on the occasion of its quatercentenary.
- 1984 Visitor posting - November 16 1984 SCS was born
- 1985 Number one hit on UK music charts - Feargal Sharkey - A Good Heart
- 1985 Visitor posting - a dreamer and fairy collector, Norma Hernandez was born in Edinburg, a city in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas - USA
- 1987 Visitor posting - Born - the most perfect boy ever...Kody Franqui! - USA [email protected]
- 1987 Lisa Bonet marries Lenny Kravitz
- 1988 Benazir Bhutto wins first free Pakistani elections in 11 years
- 1988 Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs
- 1988 In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- 1988 Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel
- 1989 6 Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops
- 1989 A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
- 1989 A devastating tornado strikes Huntsville, Alabama.
- 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
- 1991 Visitor posting - Jacque Lachapelle was bornnn! - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - vishnu's avatar born - India
- 1994 Visitor posting - Alison was born!
- 1994 Visitor posting - Christine was born! Joy to The World! - USA
- 1996 Mother Teresa receives honorary U.S. 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.
- 1998 Goderich and Exeter Railway takes over operation of the CN Guelph subdivision between London and Silver, ON.
- 2000 Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
- 2000 TX legend Dj-screw dies ...suspicion of codeine overdose. - USA
- 2004 The Boeing X-43 scramjet becomes the fastest air-breathing jet flying at nearly approx. 11,200 km/h or 3.11 km/s.
- 2004 Visitor posting - Born - the most perfect boy ever...Kody Franqui! - USA [email protected]
- 2009 A Zambian court clears journalist Chansa Kabwela of Zambia Post newspaper of pornography charges after she sent pictures of a woman giving birth in a hospital car park to President Rupiah Banda in protest at the effects of a national strike.
- 2009 Algeria deploys security at the Egyptian embassy in Algiers after Egyptian businesses are attacked in the capital, and security is also tightened in Sudan ahead of a World Cup play off between the two countries.
- 2009 At least 8 people are dead and dozens missing after a ferry collided with an oil barge in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta.
- 2009 Kevin Rudd, the Prime Minister of Australia, apologises to the "forgotten Australians" raised in orphanages and foster homes during the twentieth century.
- 2009 Kosovo's ruling party, the Democratic Party of Kosovo, claims victory in local elections, the first since the declaration of independence from Serbia.
- 2009 NASA launches Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-129 at 1928 UTC (2:28pm EST), bringing supplies and the first two ExPRESS Logistics Carriers to the International Space Station
- 2009 One of the United Kingdom's most prolific rapists, known as the "Night Stalker" who it thought to have struck more than 200 times, is charged with 22 offences against the elderly from 1992 to 2009.
- 2009 The IAEA expresses concern after a late declaration of a second nuclear site by Iran.
- 2009 The United Nations "Hunger Summit" opens in Rome, Italy.
- 2009 The United Nations is criticised after a poster that made reference to China's internet censorship by the OpenNet Initiative at an international conference focussed on Internet freedom in Sharm el-Sheik, Egypt, is removed.
- 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in Shanghai, China, and holds a town-hall-style meeting with students.
- 2010 Important Islamic date - Eid ul-Adha: November 16, 2010
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