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16 November, 2004

X-43A scramjet becomes the fastest air-breathing jet flying at nearly Mach 10 at approx. 11,200 km/h or 3.11 km/s.

16 November, 2000

Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.

16 November, 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 November, 1996

Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship.

16 November, 1996

The Jumbotron at Buffalos HSBC Arena falls to the ice hours before a hockey game; no one is injured.

16 November, 1989

A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.

16 November, 1989

Devastating tornado strikes Huntsville, Alabama.

16 November, 1989

UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference.

16 November, 1988

The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that Estonia was "sovereign" but stopped short of declaring independence.

16 November, 1988

In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.

16 November, 1984

Queen Elizabeth II visited Uppingham School, Rutland, UK on the occasion of its Quatercentenary.

16 November, 1981

Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.

16 November, 1979

The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea in Bucharest, Romania.

16 November, 1977

Close Encounters of the Third Kind opens in theaters.

16 November, 1973

Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.

16 November, 1973

US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.

16 November, 1965

Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.

16 November, 1959

The Broadway musical, The Sound of Music, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel opens at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.

16 November, 1957

Serial killer Edward Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.

16 November, 1945

Cold War: The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists & engineers to help in the production of rocket technology.

16 November, 1944

Dueren, Germany is completely destroyed by Allied aerial bombers.

16 November, 1943

World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vermork, Norway.

16 November, 1940

World War II: In response to Germanys leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.

16 November, 1940

Holocaust: In occupied Poland, German Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.

16 November, 1940

New York Citys Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.

16 November, 1934

James J. Braddock won one of the most important fights of his career against then future heavyweight champion John Henry Lewis

16 November, 1933

The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.

16 November, 1932

New York Citys Palace Theatre fully coverted to a cinema, which is considered the final death knell of vaudeville as a popular entertainment in the United States.

16 November, 1920

Qantas, the national airline of Australia is registered as an aerial carrier under the name of “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited”. Only KLM (now part of Air France-KLM) and Avianca are older.

16 November, 1914

The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.

16 November, 1907

Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.

16 November, 1907

Cunard Lines RMS Mauretania sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.

16 November, 1906

Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a womans bottom in the monkey house of New Yorks Central Park Zoo.

16 November, 1904

John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube.

16 November, 1896

First transmission of electricity between a power plant and a city was sent from the Niagara Falls hydroelectric plant to industries in Buffalo, New York.

16 November, 1885

Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel is executed for treason.

16 November, 1863

American Civil War: Battle of Campbells Station near Knoxville, Tennessee. Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.

16 November, 1857

Second relief of Lucknow. The most Victoria Crosses won in a single day (24).

16 November, 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.

16 November, 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.

16 November, 1805

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern - Russian force under Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.

16 November, 1776

American Revolutionary War: Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.

16 November, 1776

American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States, the first country in the world to do so (This is a controversial statement, because other sources say that the Kingdom of Morocco was the first to extend diplomatic recognition to the new United States).

16 November, 1632

The Battle of Lützen, where king Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is killed.

16 November, 1532

Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.

16 November, 1491

An auto de fe, held in 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.

16 November, 1384

Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman.

16 November, 534

A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.

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