November 16

November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining.

Table of contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances

Events

• 1532 - Francisco Pizarro captures Emperor Atahualpa[?]
• 1849 - Fyodor Dostoevsky's execution is canceled at the last minute.
• 1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union establish diplomatic relations
• 1907 - Oklahoma is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
• 1969 - First episode of The Clangers is broadcast by the BBC
• 1996 - Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship
• 2002 - A Campaign Against Climate Change march takes place in London from Lincoln's Inn Fields[?], past Esso offices to the United States Embassy.

Births

• 42 BC - Tiberius, Roman emperor (+ 37)
• 1873 - W.C. Handy, blues composer (+1958)
• 1889 - George Kaufman, playwright (+ 1961)
• 1894 - Richard Coudenhove Kalergi[?], politician (+ 1972)
• 1895 - Paul Hindemith, composer (+ 1963)
• 1905 - Eddie Condon[?], jazz musician (+ 1973)
• 1908 - Burgess Meredith[?], actor (+ 1997)
• 1916 - Daws Butler[?], voice actor (+ 1988)
• 1922 - José Saramago[?], author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature 1998
• 1922 - Gene Amdahl, computer scientist
• 1937 - Lothar Späth[?], German politician
• 1938 - Robert Nozick, philosopher
• 1943 - Michael Cimino[?], film director
• 1964 - Diana Krall[?], singer
• 1967 - Lisa Bonet, actress
• 1975 - Andrew Howard[?], physicist/astronomer
• 1977 - Oksana Baiul[?], figure skating champion

Deaths

• 1885 - Louis Riel, Canadian political leader
• 1960 - Clark Gable, actor
• 1961 - Sam Rayburn[?], U.S. Speaker of the House
• 1981 - William Holden, actor
• 1997 - Russ Meyer, pornographic film producer

Holidays and observances