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, 481,032 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 ‘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.
- 1805 –Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern – Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Murat.
- 1904 –English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
- 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.
- 1940 –Holocaust: in occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
- 1940 –World War II: in response to the leveling of Coventry, England by Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
- 1944 –Dueren, Germany is destroyed by Allied bombers.
- 1944 –Operation Queen, the costly Allied thrust to the Rur river was launched
Who were born on November 16?
- 1643 –Jean Chardin, French explorer (d. 1703)
- 1889 –Dietrich Kraiß, German Nazi officer (d. 1944)
- 1895 –Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1916 –Daws Butler, American voice actor (d. 1988)
- 1924 –Mel Patton, American sprinter
- 1961 –Corinne Hermès, French singer
- 1964 –Harry J. Lennix, American actor
- 1978 –Gary Naysmith, Scottish footballer
- 1979 –Tony Frias, American footballer
- 1980 –Carol Huynh, Canadian freestyle wrestler
Who died on November 16?
- 1093 –Saint Margaret of Scotland, Hungarian-born queen-consort of King Malcolm III of Scotland (b. c. 1045)
- 1613 –Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirist (b. 1556)
- 1695 –Pierre Nicole, French philosopher (b. 1625)
- 1773 –John Hawkesworth, English writer
- 1806 –Moses Cleaveland, American lawyer and surveyor; namesake of Cleveland, Ohio (b. 1754)
- 1922 –Max Abraham, German physicist (b. 1875)
- 1993 –Achille Zavatta, Tunisia-born French clown (b. 1915)
- 1994 –Doris Speed, British actress (b. 1899)
- 2000 –Joe C., American rapper (b. 1974)
- 2009 –Edward Woodward, British actor (b. 1930)
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