What are the important events that happened on November 16? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 16: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 16 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 3, 2024 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,731,715,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectaicosahenagon’ day.
Scorpio is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,348 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 16 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1532 –Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
- 1776 –American Revolution: the United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States.
- 1907 –Cunard Line’s RMS Mauretania, sister ship of RMS Lusitania, sets sail on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
- 1938 –LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
- 1945 –Cold War: Operation Paperclip – the United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
- 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.
- 1973 –U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
- 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.
- 1988 –The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is “sovereign” but stops short of declaring independence.
Who were born on November 16?
- 1717 –Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1793)
- 1811 –John Bright, British politician (d. 1889)
- 1880 –Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921)
- 1895 –Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963)
- 1928 –Clu Gulager, American actor
- 1964 –Maeve Quinlan, American actress
- 1967 –Craig Arnold, American poet
- 1971 –Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer
- 1980 –Nicole Gius, Italian alpine skier
- 1982 –Amar'e Stoudemire, American basketball player
Who died on November 16?
- 1328 –Prince Hisaaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1276)
- 1836 –Christian Hendrik Persoon, Dutch mycologist (b. 1761)
- 1961 –Sam Rayburn, American politician (b. 1882)
- 1973 –Alan Watts, English writer and philosopher (b. 1915)
- 1980 –Jayan, Indian actor (b.1938)
- 2000 –DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (b. 1971)
- 2001 –Tommy Flanagan, American jazz pianist (b. 1930)
- 2005 –Henry Taube, Canadian-born American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
- 2005 –Robert Tisch, American football team owner (b. 1926)
- 2006 –Milton Friedman, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
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