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16 Nov 1948
Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
16 Nov 1950
Egyptian King Faruk demands departure of all British troops
16 Nov 1950
UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps
16 Nov 1950
US President Harry Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat
16 Nov 1952
Papagos Greek Concentratie wins Greeks parliamentary election
16 Nov 1955
1st speed-boat to exceed 200 mph (322 kph) (Donald Campbell)
16 Nov 1955
Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Yussuph V returns to Morocco
16 Nov 1957
Copper & Brass closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 performances
16 Nov 1957
Oklas NCAA win streak ends at 47 after losing to Notre Dame 7-0
16 Nov 1959
Sound of Music musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II first opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 1443 performances
16 Nov 1961
United Kingdom limits immigration from Commonwealth countries
16 Nov 1964
Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission
16 Nov 1965
Venera 3 launched 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)
16 Nov 1380
French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever
16 Nov 1491
An auto de fe held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of vila concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
16 Nov 1572
Troops under Don Frederik (the Spanish General Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo) occupy and plunder Zutphen Netherlands
16 Nov 1632
Battle of Ltzen Sweden beats imperial armies under Albrect von Wallenstein
16 Nov 1676
1st colonial prison organized in Nantucket Massachusetts
16 Nov 1700
Monarch of Brandenburg becomes king of Prussia
16 Nov 1763
English journalist John Wilkes injured in a duel
16 Nov 1764
Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
16 Nov 1771
West Indian Company & Amsterdam divide up Suriname
16 Nov 1776
1st gun salute for an American warship in a foreign port - US Andrew Doria at Fort St Eustatius (Dutch Caribbean isalnd)
16 Nov 1776
British troops capture Fort Washington during American Revolution
16 Nov 1798
Kentucky becomes first state to nullify an act of Congress
16 Nov 1805
Battle at Schongrabern Russian army stop French
16 Nov 1824
New York Citys Fifth Avenue opens for business
16 Nov 1840
New Zealand officially becomes a British colony
16 Nov 1841
Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
16 Nov 1849
Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group his sentence is later commuted to hard labor
16 Nov 1856
Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens
16 Nov 1859
Aleksandr Ostrovskys Groza premieres in Moscow
16 Nov 1863
Battle of Campbells Station TN 492 casualities
16 Nov 1871
National Rifle Association is first chartered in the State of New York
16 Nov 1875
Battle of Gundet Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
16 Nov 1875
William Bonwill patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities
16 Nov 1882
British gunboat HMS Flirt fires at & destroys Abari village in Niger
16 Nov 1894
6000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
16 Nov 1894
French captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki West Africa
16 Nov 1901
3 autos race on Ocean Parkway Brooklyn fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 45 seconds
16 Nov 1903
V Herbert & H Smiths musical Babette premieres in NYC
16 Nov 1905
Dutch Russian Count Witte becomes Prime Minister of Russia
16 Nov 1908
Arturo Toscanini begins conducting NYs Metropolitan Opera
16 Nov 1916
Eugene ONeills Bound East for Cardiff premieres in NYC
16 Nov 1916
I. Berlin V. Herbert H. Blossoms musical premieres in NYC
16 Nov 1916
Russian La Satannaya ammunition factory explodes killing 1000
16 Nov 1919
Admiral Horthy conquers Budapest from Bla Kuns Soviet Republic
16 Nov 1920
Australias Qantas airways founded in Winton Queensland as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited
16 Nov 1920
1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn
16 Nov 1924
Cleveland Bulldogs lose to Frankford Yellowjackets ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL & major-league football record)
16 Nov 1925
American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
16 Nov 1926
NY Rangers 1st game beat Montreal Maroons 1-0
16 Nov 1933
Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
16 Nov 1935
Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Harts musical Jumbo premieres in NYC
16 Nov 1938
K B Regiment refuses round-table conference in East-India
16 Nov 1938
LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel Switzerland
16 Nov 1939
German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland
16 Nov 1940
World War II In response to Germanys leveling of Coventry England two days before the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
16 Nov 1942
Assault of US B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed
16 Nov 1943
World War II American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork Norway.
16 Nov 1944
US 9th division & 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen
16 Nov 1945
Yeshiva College (University) chartered in NY 1st US Jewish College
16 Nov 1945
Founding of UNESCO (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization)
16 Nov 1945
Two new elements discovered by Glenn Seaborg James Morgan and Albert Ghiorso were are announced americium (atomic number 95) and curium (atomic number 96)
16 Nov 1947
15000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of nazis
16 Nov 1965
Walt Disney launches Epcot Center Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
16 Nov 1966
Dr Sam Sheppard freed by a jury after 9 years in jail
16 Nov 1966
Greatest Hits album by The Temptations is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1967)
16 Nov 1968
The Derry Citizens Action Committee defies a ban on marches in Derry Northern Ireland by marching with an estimated 15000 people
16 Nov 1969
1968 M Lai massacre of between 347 and 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by US soldiers is first reported
16 Nov 1969
US President Nixon becomes first president to attend a season NFL game while in office the Dallas Cowboys beat the Washington Redskins 41-28
16 Nov 1970
Two men are shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA)
16 Nov 1970
South Vietnamese Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky defends operations in Cambodia because communist forces could overrun South Vietnam within 24 hours if troops operating there were withdrawn
16 Nov 1971
The Compton inquiry is published acknowledging that there was ill-treatment of internees but rejected claims of systematic brutality or torture (Northern Ireland)
16 Nov 1971
The US increase air activity to support the Cambodian government as fighting neared Phnom Penh
16 Nov 1972
Dear Oscar opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 5 performances
16 Nov 1974
1st intentional interstellar radio message sent Arecibo telescope towards M 41 a cluster of stars some 25000 light years away
16 Nov 1974
John Lennons only solo 1 Whatever Gets You Through the Night
16 Nov 1974
Milwaukee Bucks lose their 11th straight NBA game (team record)
16 Nov 1974
ABBA begin their first tour of Europe - their first tour outside of Sweden
16 Nov 1976
Ren Levesques Parti Qubcois wins elections in Quebec
16 Nov 1978
Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft
16 Nov 1980
Tampa Bay Buccaneer QB Doug Williams throws for 486 yards
16 Nov 1981
Merrily We Roll Along opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 performances
16 Nov 1981
Dennis Lillee kicked Javed Miandad who waved his bat at Dennis
16 Nov 1982
5th space shuttle mission Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base after 5 days in space
16 Nov 1982
Agreement reached ending 57 day football strike
16 Nov 1982
Space Shuttle Columbia completes its 1st operational flight
16 Nov 1984
14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Center
16 Nov 1984
Houston blocks 20 Denver shots tying NBA regulation game record
16 Nov 1984
Imran Khan makes his 1st appearance for NSW Cricket
16 Nov 1984
John Lennons Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him released posthumously
16 Nov 1987
Paul McCartney releases Once Upon a Long Ago
16 Nov 1988
Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs
16 Nov 1988
President Reagan meets with Jerusalems mayor Teddy Kollek
16 Nov 1989
Gypsy opens at St James Theater NYC for 477 performances
16 Nov 1989
6 Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops
16 Nov 1989
UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference.
16 Nov 1993
Any Given Day opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 32 performances
16 Nov 1995
US Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinsons disease
16 Nov 1996
Into the Whirlwind closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 performances
16 Nov 1996
18th ACE Cable Awards Lifetime wins the Golden CableACE for Lifetime Applauds The Fight Against Breast Cancer
16 Nov 1997
85th CFL Grey Cup Toronto beats Saskatchawan 47-23
16 Nov 1997
After nearly 18 years of incarceration the Peoples Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng a pro-democracy dissident from jail for medical reasons.
16 Nov 1997
American tennis great Pete Sampras wins back-to-back ATP Tour World Championship titles with a 63 62 62 over Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov in Hanover Germany
16 Nov 2003
91st CFL Grey Cup Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes 34-22
16 Nov 2003
Roger Federer of Switzerland wins his first of 6 season-ending Tennis Masters Cup titles with a 63 60 64 victory over American Andre Agassi in the final in Houston Texas
16 Nov 2004
Let Me Love You single released by Mario (Billboard Song of the Year 2005)
16 Nov 2008
Novak okovi of Serbia wins his first career season-ending Tennis Masters Cup title beating Russian Nikolay Davydenko 6-1 7-5 in the final in Shanghai China
16 Nov 2012
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 grosses 500 million in 24 hours to become the biggest entertainment launch of all time
16 Nov 2014
Klaus Iohannis wins the Romanian Presidential election
16 Nov 2014
Kevin Harvick driving for Stewart-Haas Racing wins Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway Florida to claim his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series by 1 point from Ryan Newman
16 Nov 2014
Novak okovi claims 3 straight ATP World Tour Finals tennis titles after Roger Federer is forced to withdraw from the final in London through injury
16 Nov 2015
Largest diamond discovered in more than a century a 1111 carat stone found in the Karowe mine Botswana
16 Nov 2017
19 countries pledge to phase out coal at UN Climate Summit in Bonn Germany
16 Nov 2017
Cambodian court rules to dissolve the countrys main opposition party Cambodia National Rescue party (CNRP)
16 Nov 2017
US senator Al Franken accused of groping and forcibly kissing a woman
16 Nov 1919
Admiral Mikls Horthy head of the Hungarian National Army seizes Budapest and will later become regent of the restored Kingdom of Hungary
16 Nov 1924
Cleveland Bulldogs (formerly Canton) lose to Frankford Yellowjackets ends 31-game undefeated streak (NFL & major-league football record)
16 Nov 1945
Founding of UNESCO the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
16 Nov 1957
Oklahoma Footballs NCAA win streak ends at 47 after losing to Notre Dame 7-0
16 Nov 1982
5th space shuttle mission Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base after 5 days in space completing its 1st operational flight
16 Nov 1997
CFL Grey Cup Commonwealth Stadium Edmonton heavily favoured defending champion Toronto Argonauts beat Saskatchawan Roughriders 47-23
16 Nov 2003
CFL Grey Cup Taylor Field Regina Edmonton Eskimos reverse previous year result beat Montreal Alouettes 34-22 for 12th title
16 Nov 2018
The kilogram is refined by abstract constants replacing the Le Grand K along with the ampere (electrical current) and kelvin (temperature) at a conference in Paris
16 Nov 2018
Elevator falls down 84 floors when hoist rope breaks all six people survive unharmed at John Hancock Center Chicago
16 Nov 1519
City of Havana moved to its current location to avoid mosquito infestations
16 Nov 1859
Aleksandr Ostrovskys play Groza (The Storm) premieres in Moscow
16 Nov 1863
Battle of Campbells Station TN 492 causalities
16 Nov 1981
Dennis Lillee kicks Javed Miandad after he had waved his bat at Dennis
16 Nov 1997
CFL Grey Cup Commonwealth Stadium Edmonton heavily favoured defending champion Toronto Argonauts beat Saskatchewan Roughriders 47-23
16 Nov 2019
Britains Prince Andrew refutes claims he had sex with 17 year-old connected to sex offender and friend Jeffery Epstein in BBC interview
16 Nov 2019
Sri Lankan Presidential election won by former defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa
16 Nov 2019
Samoa declares state of emergency over measles epidemic closing all schools after six deaths
16 Nov 2019
500th anniversary of the founding of Havana Cuba
16 Nov 1870
Spanish Parliament the Cortes formally elects Italian Prince Amedeo Ferdinando Maria as King Amadeo I of Spain
16 Nov 1909
Dutch football club FC Eindhoven is founded in southern part of the city Eredivisie 1954 KNVB Cup 1937
16 Nov 1924
Cleveland Bulldogs lose 12-7 to Frankford Yellow Jackets at Dunn Field ends 31-game undefeated streak NFL and major-league football record
16 Nov 1926
New York Rangers ice hockey club first game beat Montreal Maroons 1-0 at Madison Square Garden NYC
16 Nov 1956
Guido Cantelli Italian conductor named Musical Director of La Scala Milan
16 Nov 1957
University of Oklahoma Football NCAA win streak ends at 47 after losing 7-0 to Notre Dame at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium
16 Nov 1959
The Sound of Music musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC runs for 1443 performances
16 Nov 1984
14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Space Center (Florida)
16 Nov 2001
Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone 1st film adaptation of the book series by J. K. Rowling starring Daniel Radcliffe premieres in US (Titled Harry Potter and the Philosopherss Stone in some markets)
16 Nov 2020
US drugmaker Moderna says its COVID-19 vaccine is 94.5% effective in early data
16 Nov 2020
Hurricane Iota makes landfall in Nicaragua as a category four storm just 15 km south of Hurricane Eta 13 days ago
16 Nov 2020
Perus Congress votes in its third interim President in a week Francisco Sagasti after violent protests
16 Nov 1933
Swiss physicist Fritz Zwicky publishes the first evidence for the existence of dark matter in his seminal article The Redshift of Extragalactic Nebulae [1]
16 Nov 1959
Boston business executive Billy Sullivan is awarded eighth and final franchise of developing American Football League (AFL) later branded Boston Patriots
16 Nov 1972
Elektra Records releases No Secrets the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon her commercial breakthrough spends 5 weeks at top of US charts and contains the hit singles Youre So Vain and The Right Thing to Do
16 Nov 1982
5th NASA Space Shuttle Mission Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base after 5 days in space completing its 1st operational flight
16 Nov 1987
Paul McCartney releases single Once Upon a Long Ago
16 Nov 1989
Six Jesuit priests including Ignacio Ellacura and two others are assassinated killed by Salvadoran army - one of the most notorious acts of the Salvadoran civil war
16 Nov 2021
Astronauts on board the International Space Station forced to take shelter as Russian weapons test creates 1500 debris field
16 Nov 1776
American Revolutionary War British and Hessian troops take Fort Washington New York marking one of biggest losses by US forces
16 Nov 1925
Philip Barrys play In a Garden premieres in NYC
16 Nov 1960
NL batting champion Dick Groat of the Pittsburgh Pirateds wins MVP
16 Nov 1997
Revival of Sherman Edwards historical musical 1776 featuring Brent Spiner closes at the Criterion Theater to transfer to the George Gershwin Theatre NYC
16 Nov 2003
31st American Music Awards Kid Rock Jennifer Lopez & Luther Vandross win
16 Nov 1491
The case of the Holy Child of La Guardia involving the kidnapping and murdering a Christian boy concludes with public burning at the stake of nine Jews in vila Spain
16 Nov 1572
Troops under Spanish General Fadrique Alvarez de Toledo occupy and plunder Zutphen Netherlands
16 Nov 1676
First colonial prison organized in Nantucket Massachusetts
16 Nov 1700
Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and Elector of Brandenburg Frederick I sign the Crown Treaty allowing Prussia to be elevated to a kingdom in exchange for 8000 troops in the upcoming War of the Spanish Succession
16 Nov 1764
Native Americans surrender to the British during Pontiacs War of Odawa Chief Pontiac
16 Nov 1771
Dutch West India Company and Amsterdam divide Suriname between themselves
16 Nov 1776
British troops capture Fort Washington during the American Revolution
16 Nov 1839
US diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood first reach the ruins of the Maya city of Copan (modern Honduras)
16 Nov 1882
British gunboat HMS Flirt fires at and destroys villages of Abari and Asaba on the Forcado River in Niger in retaliation for attack on British owned factory that left 5 Brits missing
16 Nov 1937
Several members of the Hesse-Darmstadt royal family die in a plane crash in Belgium while enroute to a family wedding in England mother and brother of the groom among the dead as aircraft clipped a tall factory chimney
16 Nov 1943
WW II American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork Norway
16 Nov 1945
Memorandum signed by Harry Truman Clement Attlee and Mackenzie King to continue atomic energy cooperation [1]
16 Nov 1959
Musical The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in NYC runs for 1443 performances
16 Nov 1974
1st intentional interstellar radio message sent from Arecibo Observatorys radio telescope in Puerto Rico towards M 13 a cluster of stars some 25000 light years away
16 Nov 1974
John Lennons single Whatever Gets You Through the Night featuring Elton John goes to 1 in US the last of the Beatles with a solo chart-topper it was the only one during his lifetime
16 Nov 1974
NBA Milwaukee Bucks lose their team record 11th straight game fallimg 92-89 to vhe visiting Cleveland Cavaliers
16 Nov 1989
UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the 25th session of its General Conference stating we are not condemned to war and violence because of our biology [1]
16 Nov 1997
Peoples Republic of China releases pro-democracy dissident Wei Jingsheng from jail for medical reasons after nearly 18 years of incarceration
16 Nov 2021
Guanyu Zhou confirmed as Chinas first F1 driver racing for Alfa Romeo in 2022 [1]
16 Nov 2021
Mens roller derby team settles dispute with MLB baseball team allowing both to use Cleveland Guardians name
16 Nov 2022
Democratic congresswoman Karen Bass is the first woman elected mayor of the city of Los Angeles defeating Rick Caruso [1]
16 Nov 2022
NASAs Artemis I mission carrying the uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a test mission around the Moon and back launches from Florida [1]
16 Nov 2022
U.S. Food and Drug Administration gives first safety approval on lab-grown meat chicken grown from animal cells made by Upside Foods [1]
16 Nov 2023
Daryl Hall files a lawsuit and a request for a restraining order (later granted) against his music partner John Oates [1]
16 Nov 1519
City of Havana moves to its current location to avoid mosquito infestations
16 Nov 1875
William Bonwill patents the first electrified dental mallet to fill cavities with gold
16 Nov 1900
Inaugural concert by the Philadelphia Orchestra led by Fritz Scheel at the Academy of Music program includes works of Carl Goldmark Ludwig von Beethoven Piotr Tchaikovsky Carl Maria von Weber and Richard Wagner with Russian pianist Ossip Gabrilowitsch as soloist [1]
16 Nov 1901
Three-car race on Ocean Parkway Brooklyn with the fastest speed achieved by Henri Fournier who drives a mile in 51 45 seconds
16 Nov 1945
Founding of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
16 Nov 1956
Guido Cantelli Italian conductor named Musical Director of La Scala Teatro in Milan Italy
16 Nov 1957
American murderer and bodysnatcher Ed Gein kills his last victim
16 Nov 1957
Boson Celtics center Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49 rebounds as Boston beats Philadelphia Warriors 111-89 at Boston Gardens
16 Nov 1959
Musical The Sound of Music by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in NYC and runs for 1443 performances
16 Nov 1962
SF Warriors center Wilt Chamberlain scores 73 points in 127-111 win over NY Knicks at Madison Square Garden
16 Nov 1966
Ken Loachs television play Cathy Come Home is broadcast on the BBC challenging attitudes towards homelessness in Britain
16 Nov 1966
Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente is named NL MVP
16 Nov 1969
US President Richard Nixon becomes first president to attend a season NFL game while in office the Dallas Cowboys visit the Washington Redskins winning 41-28
16 Nov 1974
John Lennons single Whatever Gets You Through the Night featuring Elton John goes to 1 in the US he is the last of the Beatles with a solo chart-topper and it is the only one during his lifetime
16 Nov 1974
NBA Milwaukee Bucks lose their team record 11th straight game falling 92-89 to vhe visiting Cleveland Cavaliers
16 Nov 1974
The first intentional interstellar radio message is sent from Arecibo Observatorys radio telescope in Puerto Rico towards M13 a cluster of stars some 25000 light-years away
16 Nov 1984
John Lennons Every Man has a Woman Who Loves Him is released posthumously
16 Nov 1988
Jos Canseco is the first unanimous AL MVP since Reggie Jackson
16 Nov 1990
Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega claims the US denied him a fair trial
16 Nov 1995
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother undergoes hip surgery
16 Nov 2005
CBS television broadcasts I Walk the Line A Night For Johnny Cash featuring concert performances by Dwight Yoakam Martina McBride Alison Krauss U2 Norah Jones Foo Fighters Sheryl Crow and others
16 Nov 2012
The game Call of Duty Black Ops II grosses 500 million in 24 hours to become the largest entertainment launch of all time
16 Nov 2015
A 1111-carat diamond the largest discovered in more than a century is found in the Karowe mine Botswana
16 Nov 2018
An elevator drops 84 floors at the John Hancock Center Chicago when the hoist rope breaks all six occupants survive unharmed
16 Nov 2021
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station take shelter after a Russian anti-satellite weapons test destroys a satellite creating a large debris field
16 Nov 2022
Democratic congresswoman Karen Bass is the first woman to be elected mayor of the city of Los Angeles defeating Rick Caruso [1]
16 Nov 2022
U.S. Food and Drug Administration gives first safety approval for lab-grown meat specifically chicken grown from animal cells by Upside Foods [1]
16 Nov 2023
MLB owners unanimously approve Oakland As proposed move from California to Las Vegas Nevada it will become the franchises 4th home since being established in Philadelphia in 1901
16 Nov 2023
Revival of John Du Prez and Eric Idles musical Spamalot based on the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail opens at the St. James Theatre NYC