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.
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 1841 - Jules Violle was born (d. 1923). French physicist.
- 1847 - Edmund James Flynn was born (d. 1927). Canadian politician.
- 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 - Second 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
- 1880 - Alexander Blok was born (d. 1921). Russian poet.
- 1884 - František Chvostek dies (b. 1835). Moravian physician.
- 1885 - Michael Gonzi was born (d. 1984). Maltese archbishop.
- 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;
- 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.)
- 1897 - Choudhary Rehmat Ali was born (d. 1951). Pakistani nationalist.
- 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 - Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
- 1907 - Robert I, Duke of Parma dies (b. 1848). Last ruling Duke of Parma.
- 1907 - 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.
- 1908 - Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière dies (b. 1829). French born, Canadian politician
- 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 - 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 professor and essayst.
- 1922 - Max Abraham dies (b. 1875). German physicist.
- 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
- 1930 - Salvatore Riina was born. Sicilian mafioso
- 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 - Garnet Mimms was born. American singer
- 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 - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
- 1942 - Willie Carson was born. Scottish jockey
- 1943 - World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vermork, Norway.
- 1943 - Michael Cimino was 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.
- 1946 - Terrence McKenna was born (d. 2000). American writer.
- 1949 - António Aleixo dies in Coimbra (b. 18 Feb 1899). Portuguese popular poet.
- 1950 - Bob Smith dies (b. 1879). American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous
- 1952 - Charles Maurras dies (b. 1868). French poet and journalist
- 1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto was born. Japanese video game designer.
- 1954 - Bruce Edwards was born (d, 2004). Golf caddy.
- 1955 - Pierre Larouche was born. National Hockey League player
- 1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.
- 1957 - Jacques Gamblin was boprn. French actor.
- 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.
- 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
- 1964 - Dwight Gooden was born. American athlete
- 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
- 1967 - Craig Arnold was born. American poet
- 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 - Brendan Laney was born. Scottish rugby player
- 1973 - Alan Watts dies (b. 1915). English writer.
- 1974 - Paul Scholes was born. English football player
- 1975 - André Gonçalves was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor
- 1976 - Danny Wallace was born. British author
- 1977 - Carla Perez was born. Brazilian actress.
- 1977 - Mauricio Ochmann was born. Mexican 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 football player.
- 1978 - Candeia dies (b. 1935). Brazilian singer and composer.
- 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 born in New Mexico. American actress
- 1980 - Kayte Christensen was born. American basketball player
- 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 - Caitlin Glass was born. American actor
- 1981 - William Holden dies. American actor.
- 1982 - Amare Stoudemire was born. American basketball player
- 1982 - Arthur Askey dies (b. 1900). British comedian
- 1982 - Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov dies (b. 1896). Russian mathematician.
- 1984 - Kimberly J. Brown was born. American actress.
- 1984 - Vic Dickenson dies (b. 1906). American trombonist.
- 1986 - Siobhán McKenna dies (b. 1923). Irish stage and screen actress.
- 1987 - Jim Brewer dies (b. 1937). Major League Baseball relief pitcher.
- 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.
- 1993 - Achille Zavatta dies (b. 1915). French clown.
- 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
- 1995 - Jack Finney dies (b. 1911). American author.
- 1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship.
- 1996 - The $127.5 million Jumbotron at Buffalo's HSBC Arena falls to the ice hours before a hockey game; no one is injured.
- 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.
- 1999 - Daniel Nathans dies (b. 1928). American microbiologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- 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.
- 2001 - Tommy Flanagan dies (b. 1930). American jazz pianist.
- 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.
- 2005 - Henry Taube dies (b. 1915). Canadian-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 2005 - Robert Tisch dies (b. 1926). American football team owner.
- 2005 - Donald Watson dies (b. 1910). Founder of the Vegan Society
- Iceland - Dagur Íslenskrar Tungu (Icelandic Language Day)
- The Annual Great American Smokeout
- Thailand - Loy Krathong festival (2005)
- USA - admission of Oklahoma, 46th state, 1907
- Dia da Pátria na Síria
- Portugal: Dia Nacional do Mar
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