Historical Events and Current Affairs on November 16

1380 : French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever
1532 : Pizarro captures Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca
1572 : Don Frederiks troops occupy/plunder Zutphen
1632 : Battle at Ltzen: Sweden beats imperial armies under Von Wallenstein
1676 : 1st colonial prision organized, Nantucket Mass
1677 : French troops occupy Freiburg
1683 : Hendrik Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz marries Henri‰tte Amalia
1700 : Monarch of Brandenburg becomes king of Prussia
1763 : English journalist John Wilkes injured at duel
1764 : Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
1771 : West Indian Company & Amsterdam divide up Suriname
1776 : 1st gun salute - for US Andrea Doria at Ft St Eustatius
1776 : British troops captured Fort Washington during American Revolution
1798 : Kentucky becomes 1st state to nullify an act of Congress
1801 : 1st edition of New York Evening Post
1805 : Battle at Sch”ngrabern: Russian army stop French
1811 : Earthquake in Missouri caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards
1824 : NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
1835 : Charles Darwins voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society
1841 : Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
1841 : N E Guerin of NY patents cork-filled life preserver
1852 : J R Hind discovers asteroid #22 Kalliope
1856 : Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens
1859 : Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza," premieres in Moscow
1863 : Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities
1864 : Confederate retreat at Lovejoy, Georgia
1864 : Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War
1870 : Spanish Cortes selects King Amadeus I
1875 : Battle at Gundet: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1875 : William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities
1882 : British HMS Flirt fire at & destroy Abari village in Niger
1890 : J Palisa discovers asteroid #301 Bavaria
1894 : 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
1894 : French capt Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki West Africa
1901 : 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by
1901 : Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds
1903 : V Herbert & H Smith' musical "Babette," premieres in NYC
1904 : Max Wolf discovers asteroid #550 Senta & #551 Ortrud
1905 : Neth/Russ Count Witte becomes premier of Russia
1907 : Oklahoma becomes 46th state
1908 : Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera
1909 : EVV Eindhoven soccer team forms
1912 : J H Metcalf discovers asteroid #736 Harvard
1914 : Federal Reserve System formally opens
1914 : Pope Benedict XV calls for peace
1916 : Eugene O'Neill's "Bound East for Cardiff," premieres in NYC
1916 : I Berlin/V Herbert/H Blossoms musical premieres in NYC
1916 : Max Wolf discovers asteroid #845 Naema
1916 : USSR La Satannaya ammunitions factory explodes, killing 1,000
1917 : British occupy Tel Aviv & Jaffa
1917 : G H Peters discovers asteroid #886 Washingtonia
1918 : Hungarian People's Republic declared
1919 : Admiral Horthy conquerors Budapest from B‚la Kuns Soviet Republic
1920 : 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn
1922 : Pope Pius XI calls on Belgian people to unite
1922 : Turkish kalief/sultan Mehmed VI asks British army for help
1924 : Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets, ends 31-game
1925 : American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
1925 : Max Wolf discovers asteroid #1053 Vigdis
1925 : Philip Barry's "In a Garden," premieres in NYC
1926 : NY Rangers 1st game, beat Montreal Maroons 1-0
1933 : Brazilians president Getulio Vargas names himself dictator
1933 : Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
1935 : Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo," premieres in NYC
1936 : German air force begins bombing of Madrid
1938 : K B Regiment refuses round-table conference in East-India
1938 : L Oterma discovers asteroid #1540 Kevola
1939 : Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
1939 : German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland
1941 : German troops conquer Kertsh (probably)
1942 : Assault of US B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed
1944 : US 9th division & 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen
1945 : Yeshiva College (Univesity), chartered in NY, 1st US Jewish College
1947 : 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of nazis
1948 : Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
1950 : Egyptian king Faruk demands departure of all British troops
1950 : UN gets US govt approval to issue postage stamps
1950 : US pres Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat
1952 : Papagos' Greek Concentratie wins Greeks parliamentary election
1955 : Johnny Cash made his 1st chart appearance with "Cry Cry Cry"
1955 : KLM orders 8 DC-8's
1955 : Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Yussuph V returns to Morocco
1957 : "Copper & Brass" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 perfs
1957 : Ed Gein butchers last victim
1959 : "Sound of Music" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 1443 perfs
1961 : Great Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth countries
1962 : Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic)
1963 : Toledo, OH newspaper strike began
1963 : Touch-tone telephone introduced
1964 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 : Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)
1965 : Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Prototype Community of Tomorrow
1966 : Dr Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury
1966 : Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente is named NL MVP
1969 : 1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai S Vietnam, by US is 1st reported
1972 : "Dear Oscar" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 5 performances
1973 : John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album
1973 : Pres Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline
1973 : Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit
1974 : Harvard College discovers asteroid #2076 Levin
1974 : John Lennon's only solo #1 "Whatever Gets You Through the Night"
1974 : towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away
1976 : Ren‚ Levesque's "Parti Qu‚b‚‡ois" wins elections in Quebec
1979 : L I Chernykh discovers asteroid #4622 Solovjova
1979 : Paul McCartney releases "Wonderful Christmas"
1980 : Tampa Bay Buccaneer QB Doug Williams throws for 486 yards
1981 : "Merrily We Roll Along" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 performances
1981 : Dennis Lillee kicked Javed Miandad, who waved his bat at Dennis
1981 : Luke marries Laura on General Hospital (16 million watch)
1981 : P Jekabsons discovers asteroid #3929 Carmelmaria
1982 : Tom Stoppard's "Real Thing," premieres in London
1984 : 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Center
1984 : John Lennon releases "Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him"
1987 : Actress Lisa Bonet marries singer Lenny Kravitz
1987 : Paul McCartney releases "Once Upon a Long Ago"
1988 : Benazir Bhutto wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years
1988 : Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs
1988 : Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto's PPP wins parliamentary election
1988 : Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel
1989 : "Gypsy" opens at St James Theater NYC for 477 performances
1989 : 6 Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops
1989 : S Afr Pres FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act
1990 : E W Elst discovers asteroid #7416 Linnankoski
1990 : Manuel Noriega claims US denied him a fair trial
1992 : Endate & Watanab discover asteroid 5978 Kaminokuni & 6567 Shigemasa
1992 : S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #8184
1993 : "Any Given Day" opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 32 performances
1993 : Farra d'Isonzo discovers asteroid #7838
1993 : Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont
1993 : James Carrey files for divorce from Melissa
1993 : Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum
1995 : A Nakamura discovers asteroid #6804 Maruseppu
1995 : Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson disease
1995 : Queen Mother Elizabeth undergoes hip surgery
1995 : S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #7535
1996 : "Into the Whirlwind" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 perfs
1996 : 18th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 28 awards
1996 : XXX actor Marc Davis weds XXX actress Kobe
1997 : "1776," closes at Criterion Theater NYC

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