
November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. == Events == * 534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published. * 1384 - Jadwiga of Poland is crowned List of Polish kings, although she is a woman. * 1532 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Tahuantinsuyu Emperor Atahualpa. * 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the United States . * 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. * 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). * 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee. Confederate States of America troops unsuccessfully attack United States forces. * 1885 - Canada rebel leader of the Métis people and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for high treason. * 1896 - First transmission of electrical power between two cities was sent from Niagara Falls to industries in Buffalo, New York. (See War of Currents#The_Falls_to_Buffalo.) * 1904 - John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube. * 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. * 1914 - The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business. * 1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomacy. * 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: United States bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in Germany-controlled Vermork, Norway. * 1945 - Cold War: The United States controversially imports 88 Germany scientists to help in the production of rocket technology. * 1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden. * 1965 - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus (planet), the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. * 1969 - The first episode of The Clangers is broadcast by the BBC. * 1973 - Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission. * 1973 - President of the United States Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline. * 1977 - ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' opens in theaters. * 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. * 1981 - Luke and Laura marry on General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history. * 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 inPakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister. * 1989 - A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University. * 1990 - Rocky V is the 5th and final Rocky sequel to open in theaters, starring Sylvester Stallone. * 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. * 2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting US President to visit Vietnam. * 2001 - The first ''Harry Potter'' film, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (movie)'', is released, becoming the second highest grossing film around the world of all time. * 2004 - Boeing X-43 scramjet becomes the fastest air-breathing jet flying at nearly Mach 10 at approx. 11,200 km/h or 3.11 km/s == Births == * 42 BC - Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37) * 1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician and encyclopædist (d. 1793) * 1720 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, Italian composer (d. 1788) * 1766 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist (d. 1831) * 1836 - David Kalakaua of Hawaii, last king of Hawaii (d. 1891) * 1862 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (d. 1944) * 1873 - W. C. Handy, American blues composer (d. 1958) * 1889 - George S. Kaufman, playwright (d. 1961) * 1894 - Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, politician (d. 1972) * 1895 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963) * 1896 - Lawrence Tibbett, American actor and singer (d. 1960) * 1896 - Oswald Mosley, British fascist (d. 1980) *1905 - Eddie Condon, jazz musician (d. 1973) *1907 - Burgess Meredith, actor (d. 1997) *1916 - Daws Butler, voice actor (d. 1988) *1922 - Jose Saramago, Spanish author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature * 1922 - Gene Amdahl, computer scientist *1924 - Mel Patton, American athlete * 1924 - James Bond, fictional character *1928 - Clu Gulager, American actor *1930 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author *1937 - Lothar Spath, German politician *1938 - Robert Nozick, philosopher *1943 - Michael Cimino, film director *1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto, video game legend *1954 - Bruce Edwards, golf caddy (d. 2004) *1958 - Marg Helgenberger, American actress *1964 - Diana Krall, singer *1967 - Lisa Bonet, actress * 1971 - Waqar Younis, International cricketer ( Pakistan, Surrey, Glamorgan ) * 1974 - Paul Scholes, International footballer ( Manchester United, England ) *1977 - Oksana Baiul, figure skating champion *1981 - Allison Crowe, singer-songwriter == Deaths == * 1272 - Henry III of England (b. 1207) * 1328 - Prince Hisaaki, 8th Kamakura shogun of Japan (b. 1276) * 1632 - Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, List of Swedish monarchs (b. 1594) * 1724 - Jack Sheppard, notorious burglar hanging at Tyburn, London * 1797 - Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744) * 1802 - André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746) * 1836 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (b. 1761) * 1885 - Louis Riel, Canada Metis (people) political leader * 1911 - Albert Alonzo Ames, mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota (b. 1842) * 1939 - Pierce Butler (justice), Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1866) * 1960 - Clark Gable, actor * 1961 - Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives * 1973 - Alan Watts, philosopher, writer, lecturer, and religious expert * 1981 - William Holden, actor * 1994 - Doris Speed, soap opera actress * 1994 - Dino Valente, American musiccian, Quicksilver Messenger Service (b. August 7, 1943) * 2003 - Bettina Goislard, UNHCR relief worker == Holidays and observances == *International Day for Tolerance *Dagur Íslenskrar Tungu (Icelandic Language Day) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/16 BBC: On This Day] ---- November 15 - November 17 - October 16 - December 16 -- historical anniversaries nds:16 November
--User:Maveric149 00:49, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) Template:November 16 selected anniversaries - Template talk:November 16 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:November_16_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Removed: *766 - Nicetas appointed Patriarch of Constantinople. Could not be confirmed at this date. All refs to a November 16 date are from Wikipedia related sources. --User:Maveric149 01:00, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC) ---- : 2001 - The first Harry Potter film, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is released, grossing United States dollar 975.8 million, and becoming the second highest grossing film around the world of all time, behind Titanic (movie). :: I have restored this to say ''Philosopher's Stone'' since the original Bloomsbury Publishing Plc book release was titled this, and it was titled this in every English-speaking country except the United States, where it was apparently changed to ''Sorcerer's Stone'' so that the American audience would understand it more clearly. This is explained in the article, which is located at Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, rather than Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Since the movie gained more box office revenue internationally than domestically within the US, I have used the International title. - User:Mark 09:20, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC) == Birthdate of James Bond cannot be confirmed == Is there a definitive resource where James Bond is said to be born on November 16, 1924? In John Pearson's 'James Bond, 'The Authorized Biography of 007', Pearson had the honor of deciding Bond’s birthday as November 11th, Armistice Day. The year he dsignated was 1920. In Fleming's 'You Only Live Twice', Fleming hints that it is 1924, the year of the Rat. == Halflife 2 release == I've removed the release of Halflife 2 several times already...I honestly don't think placing this note here will change anything since the submitters apparently do not look at the edit history and probably won't look at the talk page either before adding HL2 once again...maybe I'm boneheaded and wrong about removing it again and again, but I just don't think the release of an (admittedly cool, admittedly highly-anticipated) game is important enough in the grand scheme of things. Nothing speaks against having articles on HL2, Valve etc., but we should concentrate on the really important stuff on "day of the year" articles. Game releases might conceivably be included here if the game is the highest-grossing game ever or it's a really seminal release (maybe the original Doom qualifies), but the release of just another shooter shouldn't be on here. -- User:Ferkelparade User_talk:Ferkelparade 09:24, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Require people to have entries? == Charles Turner, a "deadly Australian bowler"? Is this vanity or not? It would be easier to say if Charles Turner existed. Should we institute a "if they're not notable enough for an article, they're not notable enough for birth/death info" rule? User:DenisMoskowitz 20:02, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC) :I'll agree with you that "deadly" sounds pretty vanity-like...I've removed the word from the article. However, I disagree with your requirement for people to have articles - there's numerous people on these lists of births/deaths that presently have no article but definitely deserve one (on this day, Lothar Späth, for example). The existence of a red link might cause someone to create an article, which in the long run is much better than not listing them here at all and removing the occasional questionable entry. -- User:Ferkelparade User_talk:Ferkelparade 21:11, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::Good point, thanks. User:DenisMoskowitz 16:52, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)
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November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. == Events == * 534 - A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published. * 1384 - Jadwiga of Poland is crowned List of Polish kings, although she is a woman. * 1532 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Tahuantinsuyu Emperor Atahualpa. * 1776 - American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the United States . * 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. * 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). * 1863 - American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee. Confederate States of America troops unsuccessfully attack United States forces. * 1885 - Canada rebel leader of the Métis people and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for high treason. * 1896 - First transmission of electrical power between two cities was sent from Niagara Falls to industries in Buffalo, New York. (See War of Currents#The_Falls_to_Buffalo.) * 1904 - John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube. * 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. * 1914 - The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business. * 1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomacy. * 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: United States bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in Germany-controlled Vermork, Norway. * 1945 - Cold War: The United States controversially imports 88 Germany scientists to help in the production of rocket technology. * 1957 - Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden. * 1965 - Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus (planet), the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. * 1969 - The first episode of The Clangers is broadcast by the BBC. * 1973 - Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission. * 1973 - President of the United States Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline. * 1977 - ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' opens in theaters. * 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. * 1981 - Luke and Laura marry on General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history. * 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 inPakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister. * 1989 - A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University. * 1990 - Rocky V is the 5th and final Rocky sequel to open in theaters, starring Sylvester Stallone. * 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. * 2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting US President to visit Vietnam. * 2001 - The first ''Harry Potter'' film, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (movie)'', is released, becoming the second highest grossing film around the world of all time. * 2004 - Boeing X-43 scramjet becomes the fastest air-breathing jet flying at nearly Mach 10 at approx. 11,200 km/h or 3.11 km/s == Births == * 42 BC - Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37) * 1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician and encyclopædist (d. 1793) * 1720 - Carlo Antonio Campioni, Italian composer (d. 1788) * 1766 - Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist (d. 1831) * 1836 - David Kalakaua of Hawaii, last king of Hawaii (d. 1891) * 1862 - Charles Turner, Australian cricketer (d. 1944) * 1873 - W. C. Handy, American blues composer (d. 1958) * 1889 - George S. Kaufman, playwright (d. 1961) * 1894 - Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi, politician (d. 1972) * 1895 - Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963) * 1896 - Lawrence Tibbett, American actor and singer (d. 1960) * 1896 - Oswald Mosley, British fascist (d. 1980) *1905 - Eddie Condon, jazz musician (d. 1973) *1907 - Burgess Meredith, actor (d. 1997) *1916 - Daws Butler, voice actor (d. 1988) *1922 - Jose Saramago, Spanish author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature * 1922 - Gene Amdahl, computer scientist *1924 - Mel Patton, American athlete * 1924 - James Bond, fictional character *1928 - Clu Gulager, American actor *1930 - Chinua Achebe, Nigerian author *1937 - Lothar Spath, German politician *1938 - Robert Nozick, philosopher *1943 - Michael Cimino, film director *1952 - Shigeru Miyamoto, video game legend *1954 - Bruce Edwards, golf caddy (d. 2004) *1958 - Marg Helgenberger, American actress *1964 - Diana Krall, singer *1967 - Lisa Bonet, actress * 1971 - Waqar Younis, International cricketer ( Pakistan, Surrey, Glamorgan ) * 1974 - Paul Scholes, International footballer ( Manchester United, England ) *1977 - Oksana Baiul, figure skating champion *1981 - Allison Crowe, singer-songwriter == Deaths == * 1272 - Henry III of England (b. 1207) * 1328 - Prince Hisaaki, 8th Kamakura shogun of Japan (b. 1276) * 1632 - Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, List of Swedish monarchs (b. 1594) * 1724 - Jack Sheppard, notorious burglar hanging at Tyburn, London * 1797 - Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744) * 1802 - André Michaux, French botanist (b. 1746) * 1836 - Christian Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (b. 1761) * 1885 - Louis Riel, Canada Metis (people) political leader * 1911 - Albert Alonzo Ames, mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota (b. 1842) * 1939 - Pierce Butler (justice), Supreme Court of the United States (b. 1866) * 1960 - Clark Gable, actor * 1961 - Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives * 1973 - Alan Watts, philosopher, writer, lecturer, and religious expert * 1981 - William Holden, actor * 1994 - Doris Speed, soap opera actress * 1994 - Dino Valente, American musiccian, Quicksilver Messenger Service (b. August 7, 1943) * 2003 - Bettina Goislard, UNHCR relief worker == Holidays and observances == *International Day for Tolerance *Dagur Íslenskrar Tungu (Icelandic Language Day) == External links == * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/16 BBC: On This Day] ---- November 15 - November 17 - October 16 - December 16 -- historical anniversaries nds:16 November
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--User:Maveric149 00:49, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC) Template:November 16 selected anniversaries - Template talk:November 16 selected anniversaries - [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Template:November_16_selected_anniversaries&action=edit edit] ---- Removed: *766 - Nicetas appointed Patriarch of Constantinople. Could not be confirmed at this date. All refs to a November 16 date are from Wikipedia related sources. --User:Maveric149 01:00, 16 Nov 2003 (UTC) ---- : 2001 - The first Harry Potter film, ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is released, grossing United States dollar 975.8 million, and becoming the second highest grossing film around the world of all time, behind Titanic (movie). :: I have restored this to say ''Philosopher's Stone'' since the original Bloomsbury Publishing Plc book release was titled this, and it was titled this in every English-speaking country except the United States, where it was apparently changed to ''Sorcerer's Stone'' so that the American audience would understand it more clearly. This is explained in the article, which is located at Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, rather than Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Since the movie gained more box office revenue internationally than domestically within the US, I have used the International title. - User:Mark 09:20, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC) == Birthdate of James Bond cannot be confirmed == Is there a definitive resource where James Bond is said to be born on November 16, 1924? In John Pearson's 'James Bond, 'The Authorized Biography of 007', Pearson had the honor of deciding Bond’s birthday as November 11th, Armistice Day. The year he dsignated was 1920. In Fleming's 'You Only Live Twice', Fleming hints that it is 1924, the year of the Rat. == Halflife 2 release == I've removed the release of Halflife 2 several times already...I honestly don't think placing this note here will change anything since the submitters apparently do not look at the edit history and probably won't look at the talk page either before adding HL2 once again...maybe I'm boneheaded and wrong about removing it again and again, but I just don't think the release of an (admittedly cool, admittedly highly-anticipated) game is important enough in the grand scheme of things. Nothing speaks against having articles on HL2, Valve etc., but we should concentrate on the really important stuff on "day of the year" articles. Game releases might conceivably be included here if the game is the highest-grossing game ever or it's a really seminal release (maybe the original Doom qualifies), but the release of just another shooter shouldn't be on here. -- User:Ferkelparade User_talk:Ferkelparade 09:24, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC) == Require people to have entries? == Charles Turner, a "deadly Australian bowler"? Is this vanity or not? It would be easier to say if Charles Turner existed. Should we institute a "if they're not notable enough for an article, they're not notable enough for birth/death info" rule? User:DenisMoskowitz 20:02, 2005 Apr 19 (UTC) :I'll agree with you that "deadly" sounds pretty vanity-like...I've removed the word from the article. However, I disagree with your requirement for people to have articles - there's numerous people on these lists of births/deaths that presently have no article but definitely deserve one (on this day, Lothar Späth, for example). The existence of a red link might cause someone to create an article, which in the long run is much better than not listing them here at all and removing the occasional questionable entry. -- User:Ferkelparade User_talk:Ferkelparade 21:11, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC) ::Good point, thanks. User:DenisMoskowitz 16:52, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)
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