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What Happened on November 16th This Day in History

Year	Name
2022	Artemis Program: NASA launches Artemis 1 on the first flight of the Space Launch System, the start of the program's future missions to the moon.
2005	Following a 31-year wait, Australia defeats Uruguay in a penalty shootout to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
2002	The first cases of the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak are traced to Foshan, Guangdong Province, China.
1997	After nearly 18 years of incarceration, China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
1992	The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
1990	Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
1989	El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
1988	The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
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.
1979	The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
1974	The Arecibo message is broadcast from Puerto Rico.
1973	Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1973	U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
1965	Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
1945	UNESCO is founded.
1944	World War II: In support of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, the town of Düren is destroyed by Allied aircraft.
1940	World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
1940	The Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
1940	New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1938	LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
1933	The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
1920	Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
1914	The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1907	Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
1904	English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
1885	Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason.
1871	The National Rifle Association of America receives its charter from New York State.
1863	American Civil War: In the Battle of Campbell's Station, Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces which allows General Ambrose Burnside to secure Knoxville, Tennessee.
1857	Second relief of Lucknow: Twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day.
1855	David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia-Zimbabwe.
1849	A Russian court sentences writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1828	Greek War of Independence: The London Protocol entails the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty, encompassing the Morea and the Cyclades.
1822	American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1805	Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern: Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Joachim Murat.
1797	The Prussian heir apparent, Frederick William, becomes King of Prussia as Frederick William III.
1793	French Revolution: Ninety dissident Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.
1776	American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
1632	King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed at the Battle of Lützen during the Thirty Years' War.
1532	Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca.
1491	An auto-da-fé, 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.
1272	While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes King of England upon Henry III of England's death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne.
951	Emperor Li Jing sends a Southern Tang expeditionary force of 10,000 men under Bian Hao to conquer Chu. Li Jing removes the ruling family to his own capital in Nanjing, ending the Chu Kingdom.

Famous People Born on November 16

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Year	Name
1971	Annely Peebo, Estonian soprano and actress
1938	Ahmed Bouanani, Moroccan filmmaker (d. 2011)
1961	Frank Bruno, English boxer
1945	Lynn Hunt, American historian, author, and academic
1715	Girolamo Abos, Maltese-Italian composer and educator (d. 1760)
1892	Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and poet (d. 1978)
1945	Teenie Hodges, American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2014)
1987	Jordan Walden, American baseball player
1994	Brandon Larracuente, American actor
1936	John Moore, Australian businessman and politician

Famous People Deaths On November 16

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Date	Name
1797	Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744)
2000	Robert Earl Davis, American hip-hop artist (b. 1971)
2015	David Canary, American actor (b. 1938)
2009	Antonio de Nigris, Mexican footballer (b. 1978)
2006	Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
1939	Pierce Butler, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1866)
1093	Saint Margaret of Scotland (b. 1045)
987	Shen Lun, Chinese scholar-official
1903	Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1895)
1956	Ōtori Tanigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 24th Yokozuna (b. 1887)