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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Louis Riel -
"Hoxne Tigress"
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 | outdated, criticism section |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 |
| 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. | lots of CN tags (8), especially in one section |
| 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 |
Eligible
- 534 – The second edition of the Code of Justinian, the codification of Roman law by Justinian I, was published.
- 1532 – Spanish conquest of Peru: Conquistador Francisco Pizarro orchestrated a surprise attack (depiction shown) in Cajamarca, capturing the Inca emperor, Atahualpa.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units captured Fort Washington from the Patriots.
- 1938 – Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
- 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.
- 1967 – Aeroflot Flight 2230 crashed after takeoff from Koltsovo Airport, Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), killing all 107 people aboard.
- 1973 – U.S. president Richard Nixon signed an act authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline to transport oil from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Alaska.
- 1974 – The Arecibo message, devised by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan, was transmitted towards the globular star cluster M13, carrying basic information about humanity.
- 1981 – About 30 million people watched Luke Spencer and Laura Webber marry on the television show General Hospital, 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, including the largest collection of 4th/5th-century gold and silver coins ever discovered within the former Roman Empire.
- 1997 – Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng was released for "medical reasons" after spending 17½ of the previous 18 years in prison, and was deported to the United States.
- Born/died this day: | Ælfric of Abingdon |d|1005| Nasr of Granada |d|1322| Turibius of Mogrovejo |b|1538| Sofonisba Anguissola |d|1625| Kalākaua |b|1836| Caroline Birley |b|1851| Omayra Sánchez |d|1985
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.
First Qantas office, 1921
- 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.
- 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.
- 1920 – Qantas, Australia's national airline, was founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services (first office pictured).
- 1945 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded.
- 2002 – The first case of SARS, a zoonotic respiratory disease caused by a coronavirus, was recorded in Guangdong, China.
- Charles-Antoine Campion (b. 1720)
- Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)
- Clark Gable (d. 1960)
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