On this day in History - Nov. 16

0042 BC - Tiberius was born (d. 0037). Roman emperor.
0534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
0827 - Pope Valentino dies. Pope during 1 Sep 0827 - 16 Nov 0827.
1093 - Saint Margaret of Scotland dies. Wife of King Malcolm Canmore
1240 - Edmund Rich dies. St. Edmund of Canterbury.
1272 - King Henry III of England dies.
1328 - Prince Hisaaki dies (b. 1276). Japanese shogun.
1384 - Hedwig is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.
1532 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
1569 - Paul Sartorius was born. German composer
1603 - Augustyn Kordecki was born (d. 1673). Polish prior.
1613 - Trajano Boccalini dies (b. 1556). Italian satirist.

1623 - Francisco Sanches dies. Portuguese philosopher and physician.
1628 - Paolo Quagliati dies. Italian composer.
1632 - King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden dies (killed in battle) (b. 1594)
1632 - The Battle of Lützen, where king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is killed.
1695 - Pierre Nicole dies (b. 1625). French philosopher.
1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert was born (d. 1793). French mathematician and encyclopædist.
1720 - Carlo Antonio Campioni was born (d. 1788). Italian composer.
1724 - Jack Sheppard dies hanged (b. 1702). English burglar.
1745 - James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde dies (b. 1665). Irish statesman and soldier.
1766 - Rodolphe Kreutzer was born (d. 1831). French violinist.
1773 - John Hawkesworth dies. English writer
1776 - American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
1779 - Pehr Kalm dies (b. 1716). Finnish explorer and naturalist.
1790 - Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer dies (b.1723). American Continental Congressman.
1797 - Frederick William II of Prussia dies (b. 1744)
1802 - André Michaux dies (b. 1746). French botanist.
1806 - Moses Cleaveland dies (b. 1754). Founder of Cleveland, Ohio
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.
1836 - Christian Hendrik Persoon dies (b. 1761). Dutch mycologist.
1836 - David Kalakaua of Hawaii was born (d. 1891). Last king of Hawaii
1849 - A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his execution is canceled at the last minute.
1857 - The relief of Lucknow. The most Victoria Crosses won in a single day (24).
1862 - Charles Turner was born (d. 1944). Australian cricketer.
1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee. Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.
1873 - W. C. Handy was born (d. 1958). American composer. ‘Father of the Blues’: St. Louis Blues
1873 - Alberto de Oliveira was born. Portuguese writer
1885 - Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for high treason.
1885 - Louis Riel dies (b. 1844). Canadian activist and politician.
1889 - George Kaufman was born (d. 2 Jun 1961). American playwright: The Cocoanuts, A Night at the Opera, [w/Moss Hart]: The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can’t Take It with You;
1889 - Brasil: Proclamação da República: Pedro II é informado de que não é mais imperador. À tarde, tropas cercam a Quinta da Boa Vista para negociar as condições de retirada da família real do país.
1890 - Elpidio Quirino was born. President of Philipines (1948-1953)
1892 - Guo Moruo was born (d. 1978). Chinese writer.
1893 - Athletic Club Královské Vinohrady is founded. Later the team was renamed to Sparta Prague.
1894 - Marechal Lott was born (d. 1984). Brazilian militar and politician
1894 - Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi was born (d. 1972). Austrian politician.
1895 - Paul Hindemith was born (d. 1963). German composer.
1896 - Oswald Mosley was born (d. 1980). British fascist.
1896 - Lawrence Tibbett was born (d. 1960). American actor and singer.
1896 - First transmission of electrical power between two cities was sent from Niagara Falls to industries in Buffalo, New York. (See War of Currents.)
1904 - John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube.

1904 - Treaty of Windsor : Agreement between United Kingdom and Portugal providing for the Settlement by Arbitration of Certain Classes of Questions which may arise between the Two Governments.
1905 - Eddie Condon was born (d. 1973). American musician.
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's Central Park Zoo.
1907 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
1907 - Robert I, Duke of Parma dies (b. 1848). Last ruling Duke of Parma.
1909 - Burgess Meredith was born (d. 9 Sep 1997). Emmy Award-winning actor: The Big Event: Tail Gunner Joe [2-6-77], Batman, Gloria, Mr. Novak, Search, The Day of the Locust, Rocky series, Advice and Consent, Grumpy Old Men, In Harm’s Way, Of Mice and Men; TV host: Those Amazing Animals; author: So Far, So Good a Memoir.
1911 - Albert Alonzo Ames dies (b. 1842). Mayor of Minneapolis.
1914 - The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business.
1916 - Daws Butler was born (d. 1988). Voice actor.

1918 - Hungarian People's Republic declared
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) is older.
1920 - José Lewgoy was born in Veranópolis-RS. Brazilian actor
1922 - Max Abraham dies (b. 1875). German physicist.
1922 - Gene Amdahl was born. American computer scientist
1922 - José Saramago was born in Azinhaga, Golegã. Portuguese writer, Nobel Prize laureate in 1998
1922 - Darcy Ribeiro was born. Brazilian ethnologist, antropologist and sociologist.

1922 - José Augusto França was born. Portuguese teacher and essayst.
1924 - Mel Patton was born. American athlete.
1925 - Caroline Michaëlis de Vasconcelos dies in Portugal (b. 1851). German etymologist. In 1912 was elected to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences/ Nascida em 1851, em Berlim, Carolina Michaelis era tida, aos 26 anos, como a sucessora do fundador da Filologia Românica, Friedrich Diez. Em 1911, foi-lhe atribuída uma Cátedra em Portugal, tornando-se a primeira mulher catedrática de Românicas. Em 1912 foi eleita por mérito para a Academia de Ciencias de Lisboa. Faleceu em Portugal, faz hoje 80 anos.
1928 - Clu Gulager was born. American actor
1930 - Chinua Achebe was born. Nigerian author
1931 - Bob Gibson was born (d. 27 Sep 1996). Singer and songwriter, leader of folk music movement in late ’50s: John Riley, Old Blue, Daddy Roll ’Em, Wayfaring Stranger; duo: Gibson and [Bob] Camp;
1932 - Pedro de Pezarat Correia was born. Portuguese militar and writer
1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
1936 - Antonio Gades was born. Spanish dancer and coreographer
1938 - Robert Nozick was born (d. 2002). American philosopher.
1939 - Pierce Butler dies (b. 1866). U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
1940 - World War II: In response to Germany leveling Coventry two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
1940 - Holocaust: In Poland, Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
1940 - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1943 - World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vermork, Norway.
1943 - Michael Ciminowas born. American film director

1945 - Cold War: The United States controversially imports 88 German scientists to help in the production of rocket technology.
1945 - UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is created
1946 - Barbara Leigh was born in Ringgold, Georgia. American actress.
1949 - António Aleixo dies in Coimbra (b. 18 Feb 1899). Portuguese popular poet.
1952 - Charles Maurras dies (b. 1868). French poet and journalist
1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto was born. Japanese video game designer.

1953 - Jorge de Lima dies. Brazilian writer.
1954 - Bruce Edwards was born (d, 2004). Golf caddy.
1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.
1958 - Marg Helgenberger was born. American actress
1959 - The Broadway musical, The Sound of Music, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel opens at the
Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
1959 - Florencio Molina Campos dies. Argentine painter.
1960 - Clark Gable dies (b. 1901). American actor. Gone with the Wind

1960 - Ricardo Plat was born in S. Paulo. Brazilian actor
1961 - Sam Rayburn dies (b. 1892). U.S. Speaker of the House
1961 - Frank Bruno was born. British-born boxer
1962 - Josh Silver was born. American keyboardist and record producer (Type O Negative)
1963 - Willian Bonner was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian journalist and TV personality.
1964 - Diana Krall was born. Canadian singer
1964 - Valeria Bruni Tedeschi was born. Italian actress
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 - Otto Arosemena Gómez assumes the Presidency of Ecuador
1967 - Lisa Bonet was born. American actress
1968 - Vicente Lombardo Toledano dies. Mexican politician.
1969 - The first episode of The Clangers is broadcast by the BBC.
1970 - Martha Plimpton was born. American actress
1970 - Anne Murray received a gold record for Snowbird. She was the first Canadian recording artist to receive a gold record.

1970 - Luis Jiménez de Asúa dies. Spanish politician.
1971 - Alexander Popov was born. Russian swimmer
1971 - Waqar Younis was born. Pakistani cricketer
1971 - Mustapha Hadji was born. Morocco football player
1973 - Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1973 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
1973 - Alan Watts dies (b. 1915). English writer.
1974 - Paul Scholes was born. English footballer
1975 - André Gonçalves was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor
1977 - Oksana Baiul was born. Ukrainian figure skater
1977 - Maggie Gyllenhaal was born. American actress
1977 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens in theaters.
1977 - Aprovada por unanimidade a entrada de Espanha no Conselho da Europa.
1978 - Gary Naysmith was born. Scottish footballer.
1978 - Candeia dies (b. 1935). Brazilian singer and composer.
1978 - Sri Lanka: Um acidente aéreo em Colombo causa a morte de 200 pessoas.
1979 - The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
1980 - Louis Althusser murders his wife and immediately confesses.

1980 - Alexa Havins was orn in, New Mexico. American actress
1981 - Luke and Laura marry on General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.
1981 - Allison Crowe was born. Canadian singer and songwriter
1981 - William Holden dies. American actor.
1982 - Arthur Askey dies (b. 1900). British comedian
1983 - Janete Emmer Dias Gomes (Janete Clair) dies. Novelist and writer
1984 - Kimberly J. Brown was born. American actress.
1988 - The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that the Estonia was "sovereign" but stopped short of declaring independence.
1988 - In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister.
1989 - A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops, most of them trained by the School of the Americas, kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.

1989 - Paraguayan Augusto Roa Bastos is awarded with the Miguel de Cervantes Prize.
1990 - Rocky V is the 5th and final Rocky sequel to open in theaters, starring Sylvester Stallone.
1994 - Doris Speed dies (b. 1899). British actress
1994 - Dino Valente dies (b. 1943). American musician (Quicksilver Messenger Service)

1995 - Liamin Zerual wins the first Presidential elections in Algeria with 61,34% of votes
1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US 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.

1997 - 85% of voters of Hungary vote in favor of joining NATO.
2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting US President to visit Vietnam.
2000 - DJ Screw dies (b. 1971). Legendary Houston DJ who slowed down music and made thousands of tapes of this "screw" music". Founder of the S.U.C. Screwed Up Click
2001 - The first Harry Potter film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, is released, becoming the second highest grossing film around the world of all time.
2003 - Bettina Goislard dies (b. 1974). French relief worker.

2003 World chess champion Garry Kimovich Kasparov (b. 13 April 1963), with White, wins against computer program X3D Fritz in the third game of a match which is now tied.
2004 - X-43A scramjet becomes the fastest air-breathing jet flying at nearly Mach 10 at approx. 11,200 km/h or 3.11 km/s
R.C. Saints - Saint Margaret of Scotland ; Gertrude the Great
Also see November 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
International Day for Tolerance
Iceland - Dagur Íslenskrar Tungu (Icelandic Language Day)
Thailand - Loy Krathong festival (2005)
USA - admission of Oklahoma, 46th state, 1907
Dia da Pátria na Síria
Dia Internacional da Tolerancia
Dia Nacional do mar em Portugal