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Today in History ~ November 16
Events0013 - Tiberius' triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany
1380 - French King Charles VI declares no taxes forever
1532 - Pizarro captures Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca
1632 - Battle at Lutzen: Sweden beats imperial armies under Wallenstein
1676 - 1st colonial prison organized, Nantucket Massachusetts. [H]
1763 - English journalist/MP/friend of American Colonies John Wilkes injured in duel
1764 - Indians surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington on north end of Manhattan during American Revolution
1798 - Kentucky becomes 1st state to nullify an act of Congress
1801 - 1st edition of New York Evening Post
1811 - Earthquake in Missouri caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards
1824 - NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
1835 - Charles Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society
1841 - Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
1849 - Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky is sentenced to death for antigovernment activities [H]
1863 - Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities
1864 - Confederate retreat at Lovejoy, Georgia
1875 - William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities
1885 - Canadian rebel Louis Riel was executed for high treason.
1889 - Washington admitted as the 42nd state.
1892 - The University of Chicago, a founding member of the Big 10, won its first football game, beating Illinois, 10-4.
1894 - 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdista
1903 - V Herbert's & H Smith's musical "Babette," premieres in NYC
1907 - Oklahoma became the 46th state of the union. [H]
1908 - Arturo Tuscanini debuts conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera
1914 - Federal Reserve System formally opens
1917 - British occupy Tel Aviv & Jaffa
1920 - 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn
1925 - American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
1925 - Philip Barry's "In a Garden," premieres in NYC
1933 - Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
1935 - Richard Rodgers' & Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo," premieres in NYC
1936 - German Luftwaffe begins bombing Madrid
1939 - Al Capone freed from Alcatraz
1939 - German U-boat torpedoes tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland
1947 - 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against mild sentence of nazis
1948 - Operation Magic Carpet - 1st plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel
1950 - Egyptian king Farouk demands departure of all British troops
1950 - US pres Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat
1957 - Ed Gein butchers last victim
1959 - Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 1443 performances
1961 - Great Britain limits immigration from Commonwealth countries
1963 - Touch-tone telephone introduced
1965 - Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Prototype Community of Tomorrow
1966 - After 9 years in jail, Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial of charges he'd murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.
1973 - President Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline
1973 - Skylab 3, carrying a crew of three astronauts, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on an 84-day mission.
1976 - Rene Levesque's "Parti Quebecois" wins elections in Quebec
1982 - Aggrement reached ending 57 day football strike
1982 - Tom Stoppard's "Real Thing," premieres in London
1982 - National Football League players ended a 57-day strike.
1984 - The space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth with the first two satellites ever plucked from space.
1988 - Benazir Bhutto wins 1st free Pakistani elections in 11 years
1988 - Estonia declares sovereignty in internal affairs
1989 - S Afr Pres FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act
1989 - Seven children were killed when a tornado struck an elementary school near Newburgh, N.Y.
1989 - Six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her teenage daughter were shot to death at their residence in San Salvador by El Salvadorian troops.
1990 - Manuel Noriega claims US denied him a fair trial
1990 - the Soviet Union indicated its approval of the use of military force to oust Iraq from Kuwait.
1991 - Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards won a landslide victory in his bid to return to office, defeating state representative David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader.
1991 - House Democrats reported that Salvadoran Defense Minister Gen. Rene Ponce had planned the 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter.
1992 - A federal judge in Los Angeles refused to reconsider the Navy's appeal of an injunction that forced the service to reinstate sailor Keith Meinhold, the first openly homosexual person on active duty in the U.S. military.
1992 - Prosecutors in Detroit filed second-degree murder charges against two police officers who allegedly beat black motorist Malice Green to death. Two other officers were charged with lesser offenses.
1993 - Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum
1993 - The United Nations Security Council voted to end the manhunt for Somali warlord Gen. Mohammed Farah Aideed.
1995 - Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson disease
1995 - Queen Mother Elizabeth undergoes hip surgery
1997 - 85 percent of citizens of Hungary voted in favor of joining NATO.
2000 - Al Gore won a legal fight to expand manual recounts as he struggled to trim George W. Bush's 300-vote lead in Florida's presidential race.
Birthdays Today
1569 - Paul Sartorius, composer
1717 - Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert, French philosopher/mathematician (co-author of first Encyclopedia with Denis Diderot)
1766 - Rodolphe Kreitzer, France, composer/virtuoso violinist (Paris Conserv)
1829 - Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist/conductor/composer
1861 - Vaclav Suk, composer
1873 - W.C. (William Christopher) Handy (composer: "Father of the Blues": St. Louis Blues)
1887 - Philip Frohman, US architect
1889 - George S. Kaufman (playwright: The Cocoanuts, This is Show Business, A Night at the Opera, [w/Moss Hart]: The Man Who Came to Dinner, You Can't Take It with You)
1895 - Paul Hindemith, Hanau Germany, composer
1896 - Fibber McGee (Jim Jordan) (actor: Fibber McGee and Molly)
1896 - Lawrence Tibbett, Bakersfield Calif, baritone (Metropolitan Opera 1923-50)
1896 - Oswald Mosley, baron/British Nazi
1905 - Eddie (Albert) Condon (musician:guitar, bandleader, promoter of Dixieland Jazz)
1908 - Burgess Meredith, Cleve Ohio, (Academy and Emmy Award-winning actor: The Big Event: Tail Gunner Joe [2-6-77], Batman, Gloria, Mr. Novak, Search, The Day of the Locust, Rocky series, Advice and Consent, Grumpy Old Men, In Harm's Way, Of Mice and Men; author: So Far, So Good a Memoir)
1920 - Gene Littler (golf: U.S. Open winner [1961])
1922 - Royal Dano (actor: Mr. Lincoln, Ghoulies 2, The Red Badge of Courage, Huckleberry Finn, The Right Stuff, Johnny Guitar, The Trouble with Harry)
1930 - Bob Watson (football)
1931 - Bob Gibson (singer, songwriter: folk songs)
1932 - Harry Chiti (baseball)
1935 - Elizabeth Drew (journalist)
1940 - Anthony Johnson (rower)
1944 - Joanna Pettet (actress: Best Sellers, Casino Royale, Double Exposure, Captains and the Kings, Knots Landing)
1945 - Martine Van Hammel (ballet: American Ballet Theatre)
1946 - Jo Jo White (basketball: Boston Celtics: MVP 1976 playoffs)
1948 - Steve Railsback, actor (Blue Monkey, Helter Skelter, Green Monkey, Escape 2000)
1950 - David Leisure (actor: Empty Nest)
1950 - Harvey Martin (football: Dallas Cowboys DE: Super Bowls X, XII, XIII)
1951 - Herb Washington (baseball)
1952 - Glenn Burke (baseball)
1959 - Harvey Banks (football)
1959 - Larry Mize (golf champion: Masters [1987])
1963 - Zina Garrison (tennis)
1964 - Dwight Gooden (baseball: "The Doctor": NY Mets pitcher: record for most strikeouts in a rookie season: Rookie of the Year [1984]: youngest to achieve that award, Cy Young Award-winner [1985])
1967 - Lisa Bonet (actress: The Cosby Show, A Different World, Angel Heart, Bank Robber)
1970 - Martha Plimpton (actress: The Goonies, Parenthood, The Mosquito Coast)
1977 - Oksana Baiul, Ukraine, figure skater (Olympic-gold-1994)
Famous deaths
1271 - Henry III, king of England (1216-71), dies
1512 - Jemme Herjuwsma, Fries rebel, beheaded
1724 - Jack Sheppard, English robber, hanged
1831 - Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist (Campaign 1813), dies at 51
1934 - Carl P G von Linde, German physicist, dies at 92
1960 - Clark Gable, actor (Gone With the Wind), dies at 59
1961 - House Speaker Samuel T. Rayburn died in Bonham, Texas, having served as speaker since 1940 except for two terms.
1964 - Albert Hay Malotte, composer, dies at 69
1974 - Walther Meissner, German physicist (Meissner Effect), dies at 91
1981 - William Holden, actor (Network, Wild Bunch, Breezy), was found dead in his apartment in Santa Monica, Calif.; he was 63.
1993 - Lucia Popp, Czech/Austria soprano (Vienna Opera), dies at 54
1994 - John C. Boylan, US actor (Twin Peaks, Sleepless in Seattle), dies at 82
2000 - Civil rights activist Hosea Williams died in Atlanta at age 74.
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