Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 16

This is a list of selected November 16 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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Images

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  Pizarro's tomb, Lima
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  Battle of Cajamarca
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  Atahualpa, last Inca emperor
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  3D representation of an LSD molecule
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  SARS Virus
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  Wei Jingsheng
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  Louis Riel
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  "Hoxne Tigress"
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  First Qantas office, 1921
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  The Trans-Alaska Pipeline
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  A view of the attack against Fort Washington, by Thomas Davies

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
International Day for Tolerance	stub
Day of Declaration of Sovereignty in Estonia (1988)	refimprove
1491 – Several Jews and conversos were executed in Toledo, Spain, for the alleged ritual murder of an infant, who was later revered as the Holy Child of La Guardia.	unreferenced section
1805 – War of the Third Coalition: At the Battle of Schöngrabern, Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delayed the pursuit by French troops under Joachim Murat.	needs more footnotes, short
1855 – Explorer David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls, one of the largest waterfalls in the world, on what is now the Zambia–Zimbabwe border.	refimprove section
1871 – The United States' National Rifle Association was first chartered in the state of New York by William Conant Church and George Wood Wingate.	outdated, criticism section
1907 – Two years after the failed attempt by the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory to achieve U.S. statehood, they joined with the Oklahoma Territory to become the 46th state to enter the union.	too many images
1920 – Qantas, Australia's national airline, was founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services.	Uncited material
1945 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded.	Lots of cn
1974 – The Arecibo message, devised by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan and carrying basic information about humanity, was transmitted towards the globular star cluster M13.	Unreferenced material
1989 – Eight employees of Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" in San Salvador, including six Catholic priests, were murdered by a Salvadoran Army "death squad".	refimprove section
Edmund of Abingdon |d|1240|	needs more footnotes
Zubir Said|d|1987|	Unreferenced passages

Eligible

• 1476 – With the help of Stephen III and Stephen Báthory, Vlad the Impaler ousted Basarab the Old and became the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
• 1632 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed at the Battle of Lützen during the Thirty Years' War.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Fort Washington on Manhattan was captured from the Patriots by British and Hessian units.
• 1885 – After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion, the Canadian Métis leader and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel was hanged for high treason.
• 1938 – Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD in Basel, Switzerland.
• 1967 – Aeroflot Flight 2230 crashed after takeoff from Koltsovo Airport, Russia, killing all 107 people aboard.
• 1973 – U.S. president Richard Nixon signed an act authorizing the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to transport oil from the Beaufort Sea to the Gulf of Alaska.
• 1981 – About 30 million people watched the fictional couple Luke Spencer and Laura Webber wed on the television show General Hospital in the highest-rated hour in American soap-opera history.
• 1992 – In Suffolk, England, a local man found the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold in Britain (sample pictured), including the largest collection of 4th- and 5th-century gold and silver coins ever discovered within the former Roman Empire.
• 1997 – Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, released on ostensibly medical grounds after spending eighteen years in prison, was deported to the United States.
• 2002 – The first case of SARS, a zoonotic respiratory coronavirus disease, was recorded in Guangdong, China.
• 2020 – The El Dorado Fire in California, United States, was extinguished after 71 days, having destroyed 20 structures and killed one firefighter.

• Born/died this day: | Ælfric of Abingdon |d|1005| Nasr of Granada |d|1322| Turibius of Mogrovejo |b|1538| Sofonisba Anguissola |d|1625| Charles-Antoine Campion |b|1720| Augustus Jones |d|1836| Chinua Achebe |b|1930| Shigeru Miyamoto |b|1952| Clark Gable |d|1960 |Omayra Sánchez |d|1985| Henry Taube |d|2005|

Notes

• David Livingstone appears on November 10, so Victoria Falls should not appear in the same year
• Washington (state) appears on November 11, so Oklahoma should not appear in the same year.

November 16

Mosaic of Justinian I in the Basilica of San Vitale

• 534 – The second edition of the Code of Justinian, a codification of Roman law by Byzantine emperor Justinian I (pictured), was published.
• 1532 – Spanish conquest of Peru: Conquistador Francisco Pizarro orchestrated a surprise attack in Cajamarca, capturing the Inca emperor, Atahualpa.
• 1914 – World War I: Austro-Hungarian forces launched an assault against Serbian defensive positions at the Kolubara river, beginning the Battle of Kolubara.
• 1944 – World War II: Operation Queen commenced with one of the heaviest Allied tactical bombings of the war, attacking German targets in the Rur valley.
• 1959 – The Sound of Music, a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein based on The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.

• Kalākaua (b. 1836)
• Caroline Birley (b. 1851)
• Panditrao Agashe (d. 1986)
• A. S. Byatt (d. 2023)

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• November 15
• November 16
• November 17