November 16

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

• 766 - Nicetas appointed Patriarch of Constantinople
• 1532 - Francisco Pizarro captures Emperor Atahualpa
• 1849 - Fyodor Dostoevsky's execution is canceled at the last minute.
• 1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations
• 1907 - Oklahoma is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
• 1969 - First episode of The Clangers is broadcast by the BBC
• 1979 - First line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
• 1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship
• 2002 - A Campaign Against Climate Change march takes place in London from Lincoln's Inn Fields, past Esso offices to the United States Embassy.

• 42 BC - Tiberius, Roman emperor († 37)
• 1873 - W.C. Handy, blues composer († 1958)
• 1889 - George Kaufman, playwright († 1961)
• 1894 - Richard Coudenhove Kalergi, politician († 1972)
• 1895 - Paul Hindemith, composer (†1963)
• 1905 - Eddie Condon, jazz musician († 1973)
• 1907 - Burgess Meredith, actor († 1997)
• 1916 - Daws Butler, voice actor († 1988)
• 1922 - José Saramago, author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1998
• 1922 - Gene Amdahl, computer scientist
• 1937 - Lothar Späth, German politician
• 1938 - Robert Nozick, philosopher
• 1943 - Michael Cimino, film director
• 1964 - Diana Krall, singer
• 1967 - Lisa Bonet, actress
• 1975 - Andrew Howard, physicist/astronomer
• 1977 - Oksana Baiul, figure skating champion

• 1632 - Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, in the Battle of Lützen
• 1885 - Louis Riel, Canadian Metis political leader
• 1960 - Clark Gable, actor
• 1961 - Sam Rayburn, U.S. Speaker of the House
• 1980 - Louis Althusser's wife murdered
• 1981 - William Holden, actor
• 1997 - Russ Meyer, pornographic film producer

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