Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Monday, November 16, 2009
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Friday, November 16, 2007
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Sunday, November 16, 2003
Saturday, November 16, 2002
Friday, November 16, 2001
The first Harry Potter film, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", is released, grossing US , becoming the second highest grossing film around the world of all time, behind "Titanic".
Thursday, November 16, 2000
Bill Clinton becomes the first sitting US President to visit Vietnam.
A catastrophic
landslide in Log pod Mangartom,
Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of
SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in
Slovenia in the past 100 years.
Saturday, November 16, 1996
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
An
ice storm strikes the U.S., killing 26 directly, hundreds more from accidents. A powerful windstorm blasts
Florida winds gust to 90 mph.
Frederick Chiluba is reelected president of Zambia.
Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Organization (
CTBTO) established.
A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.
A bomb explosion in
Kaspiysk, Russia, kills 32 people.
Martin Bryant is sentenced to 35 consecutive sentences of life imprisonment plus 1035 years without parole for murdering 35 people in a shooting spree in
Tasmania earlier this year.
World-renowned bird expert
Tony Silva is sentenced to 7 years in prison without
parole, for leading an illegal
parrot smuggling ring.
Thursday, November 16, 1995
Egypt, Eilat, Israel, and much of the North African Mediterranean is struck by the strongest earthquake (7.2 mathM_\mathrm{w}/math) along the Dead Sea Transform in a century 8 are killed.
The first ever full length computer animated feature film
Toy Story was released by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures.
Rosemary West is sentenced to life for killing 10 women and girls, including her daughter and stepdaughter, after the jury returns a guilty verdict at Winchester Crown Court. The trial judge recommends that she should never be released from prison, making her only the second woman in British legal history to be subjected to a whole life tariff (the other is
Myra Hindley).
The
Dow Jones Industrial Average gains 40.46 to close at 5,023.55, its first close above 5,000. This makes 1995 the first year where the Dow surpasses 2 millennium marks in a single year.
Wednesday, November 16, 1994
Monday, November 16, 1987
Parlatino Treaty of Institutionalization signed.
Wednesday, November 16, 1983
Monday, November 16, 1981
Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera "General Hospital" it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.
Friday, November 16, 1979
Sunday, November 16, 1975
Former California Governor Ronald Reagan enters the race for the Republican presidential nomination, challenging incumbent President Gerald Ford.
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco dies in Madrid, effectively marking the end of the dictatorship established following the Spanish Civil War and the beginning of Spain's transition to democracy.
Beginning of the Third
Cod War between UK and Iceland, which lasts until June 1976.
Saturday, November 16, 1974
Thursday, November 16, 1972
Monday, November 16, 1970
U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government (US$85 million is for military assistance to prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier Lon Nol by the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam).
Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
Luna program: The Soviet Union lands "Lunokhod 1" on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world, and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
The Lockheed L-1011 Tristar flies for the first time.
Wednesday, November 16, 1966
U.S. doctor
Sam Sheppard is acquitted in his second trial for the murder of his pregnant wife in
1954.
A spectacular
Leonid meteor shower passes over
Arizona, at the rate of 2,300 a minute for 20 minutes.
Tuesday, November 16, 1965
Saturday, November 16, 1963
John Kilbride, 12, is abducted by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady in Great Britain.
Vietnam War: New U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson confirms that the United States intends to continue supporting South Vietnam militarily and economically.
John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded, and Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes the 36th President. All television coverage for the next four days is devoted to the assassination, its aftermath, the procession of the horsedrawn casket to the Capitol Rotunda, and the funeral of President Kennedy. Stores and businesses shut down for the entire weekend and Monday, in tribute.
John F. Kennedy assassination:Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of John F. Kennedy, is shot dead by Jack Ruby in Dallas, Texas on live national television. Later that night, a hastily arranged program, "A Tribute to John F. Kennedy from the Arts", featuring actors, opera singers, and noted writers, all performing dramatic readings and/or music, is telecast on ABC-TV.
Thursday, November 16, 1939
Al Capone is released from Alcatraz.
Tuesday, November 16, 1920
Queensland and Northern Territory Aviation Services ("Qantas") is founded by
Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinniss.
Sunday, November 16, 1919
The Treaty of Versailles fails a critical ratification vote in the United States Senate. It will never be ratified by the US.
Monday, November 16, 1885
Thursday, November 16, 1882
Tuesday, November 16, 1875
Battle of Gundat:
Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes defeats another
Egyptian army.
Wednesday, November 16, 1870
Monday, November 16, 1863
American Civil War ndash Battle of Cbell's Station: Near Knoxville, Tennessee, Confederate troops led by General James Longstreet unsuccessfully attack Union forces under General Ambrose Burnside.
Tuesday, November 16, 1858
Friday, November 16, 1849
The North Carolina General Assembly incorporates the North Carolina Railroad to complete a rail line from Goldsboro through Raleigh and Salisbury to Charlotte.
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Russian court sentences
Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group, but his execution is cancelled at the last minute.
Monday, November 16, 1835
Friday, November 16, 1821
Monday, November 16, 1818
Saturday, November 16, 1805
Napoleonic Wars ndash Battle of Schöngrabern: ndash Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.
Monday, November 16, 1801
Aachen is officially annexed by France.
Philippe Pinel publishes "Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aliénation mentale ou la manie", presenting his enlightened humane psychological approach to the management of
psychiatric hospitals. Translated into
English by
D. D. Davis as "Treatise on Insanity" in 1806, it is influential on both sides of the Atlantic during the nineteenth century.
Saturday, November 16, 1776
Saturday, November 16, 1771
Friday, November 16, 1764
The Royal Colony of North Carolina establishes a new county from the eastern portion of Granville County and names it Bute County for John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, who had recently resigned his post as Prime Minister of Great Britain. In 1779 the State of North Carolina abolishes the county when it forms Warren County from the northern portion and Franklin County from the southern portion.
The French government withdraws the wartime taxes.
Saturday, November 16, 1720
The Tuscarora flee North Carolina as a result of European colonization.
The "Academia Real da Historia" is founded in
Lisbon, Portugal.
Sunday, November 16, 1698
The Whigs sponsor Captain Kidd of New York as a privateer against French shipping.
Bucharest becomes the capital of Wallachia (now part of Romania).
Since the establishment of its presidencies in 1689, the
British East India Company has been under constant pressure from traders who are not members of the company and are not licensed by the Crown to trade. Under a parliamentary ruling in favour of
free trade, these private newcomers are able to set up a new company, called the New Company or English Company.
Tuesday, November 16, 1677
Gottfried Leibniz gave a complete solution to the tangent problem.
The population of Paris first exceeds 500,000.
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek observes spermatozoa under the microscope.
Charles II of England makes Henry Purcell court musician.
Monday, November 16, 1676
Saturday, November 16, 1619
Wednesday, November 16, 1616
Roman Catholic Archbishop of the See of Spalato and Primate of Dalmatia, Marco Antonio de Dominis, having run afoul of Pope Paul V over secular matters relating to Venice, submits to King James I of England and later becomes Dean of Windsor.
Sunday, November 16, 1614
Wednesday, November 6, 1532 (Julianian calendar)
Francisco Pizarro and his men capture
IncaAtahualpa at
Cajamarca, ambushing and slaughtering a large number of his followers without loss to themselves. He subsequently offers a ransom of approx. $100 million in gold.
Henry VIII of England grants the Thorne brothers a Royal Charter to found Bristol Grammar School.
The
Paris Parlement has the city's beggars arrested 'to force them to work in the sewers, chained together in pairs'.
Friday, November 6, 1500 (Julianian calendar)
Monday, November 7, 1491 (Julianian calendar)
Wednesday, November 7, 1414 (Julianian calendar)
Sayyid dynasty starts to rule Delhi.
The Tibetan lama Je Tsongkhapa of the Gelug Buddhist sect declined the offer of the Yongle Emperor of China to appear in the capital at Nanjing, although he sent his disciple Chosrje Shākya Yeshes, who was given the title State Teacher. The later Xuande Emperor granted Yeshes the title of a king upon a return visit to China, only he traveled to the new capital at Beijing.
Alien priory cells are suppressed.
Tuesday, November 8, 1384 (Julianian calendar)
Zain Al-Abidin succeeds his father, Shah Shuja, as ruler of the
Muzaffarids in central
Persia.
The Nasrid princes of Granada replace Abu al-Abbas with Abu Faris Musa ibn Faris as ruler of the Marinid dynasty in present day Morocco.
Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland following the death of her father, King Louis, in 1382.
Timur conquers northern territories of the Jalayirid Empire in western Persia.
Wednesday, November 12, 766 (Julianian calendar)
Nicetas is appointed Patriarch of Constantinople.
Wednesday, November 13, 636 (Julianian calendar)
The Xumi Pagoda of Zhengding, China, is built during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang.
Tuesday, November 14, 534 (Julianian calendar)
Sunday, November 15, 498 (Julianian calendar)
Thursday, November 15, 367 (Julianian calendar)