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 320th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 45 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is November 3, 2025 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 489,792 hours 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 ‘trihectaicosagon’ day.
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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 93 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 4,713 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 16 Historical Events
- 534 –A second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus is published.
- 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.
- 1904 –English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
- 1914 –The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
- 1938 –LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
- 1940 –Holocaust: in occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
- 1944 –Dueren, Germany is destroyed by Allied bombers.
- 1944 –Operation Queen, the costly Allied thrust to the Rur river was launched
- 1945 –Cold War: Operation Paperclip – the United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
- 1979 –The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
Who were born on November 16?
- 1889 –George S. Kaufman, American playwright (d. 1961)
- 1890 –Elpidio Quirino, 6th President of the Philippines (d. 1956)
- 1896 –Pavel Sergeevich Alexandrov, Russian mathematician (d. 1982)
- 1938 –Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002)
- 1941 –Gerry Marshall, British race car driver (d. 2005)
- 1946 –Terence McKenna, American writer and public speaker (d. 2000)
- 1948 –Chi Coltrane, American rock-pop-jazz songwriter, pianist, and singer
- 1951 –Miguel Sandoval, American actor
- 1970 –Logan Mader, American guitarist (Machine Head)
- 1983 –Britta Steffen, German swimmer
Who died on November 16?
- 1272 –King Henry III of England (b. 1207)
- 1613 –Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)
- 1724 –Jack Sheppard, English burglar (b. 1702)
- 1974 –Walther Meissner, German technical physicist (b. 1882)
- 1999 –Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)
- 2000 –DJ Screw, American hiphop DJ (b. 1971)
- 2004 –Margaret Hassan, Irish aid worker (b. 1945)
- 2005 –Donald Watson, English vegan advocate (b. 1910)
- 2007 –Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author (b. 1946)
- 2010 –Wyngard Tracy, Filipino talent manager (b. 1952)
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