About November 16
November 16, 2024 is the 321st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 45 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 74 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 16
- 1272 –While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes King of England upon Henry III of England’s death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne.
- 1491 –An auto-da-fé, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
- 1776 –American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
- 1805 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern – Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.
- 1849 –A 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.
- 1852 –The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.
- 1857 –Second relief of Lucknow – twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day.
- 1863 –American Civil War: Battle of Campbell’s Station near Knoxville, Tennessee – Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.
- 1885 –Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and “Father of Manitoba”, Louis Riel is executed for treason.
- 1904 –English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
- 1907 –Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, that is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
- 1914 –The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
- 1938 –LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
- 1943 –World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
- 1944 –Operation Queen, the costly Allied thrust to the Rur river was launched
- 1965 –Venera program: the Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, that will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
- 1988 –In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
- 1989 –A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
- 1992 –The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
- 2000 –Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
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