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| November 16th |
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| About November 16th is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 45 days remaining until the end of the calendar year. November 16th is the International Day for Tolerance. Births 1956 - Terry Labonte, NASCAR driver 1958 - Marg Helgenberger, actress (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation) 1984 - Kimberly J. Brown, actress (Halloweentown, Quints) 1984 - Gemma Atkinson, actress, model (Hollyoaks) Deaths 2006 - Milton Friedman, economist, Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences recipient Events 1776 - During the American Revolutionary War, Hessian mercenaries capture Fort Washington from the Patriots. 1821 - Missouri trader William Becknell takes a trail that would later become known as the Santa Fe Trail and arrives in Santa Fe , New Mexico. 1863 - In Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville , Tennessee , during the American Civil War, Confederate troops attack Union forces, but are unsuccessful. 1907 - Oklahoma , consisting of Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory is admitted to the union, becoming the 46th state of the United States. 1914 - The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank officially begins operating. 1943 - A German-controlled hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in Vemork , Norway is struck by American bombers. 1944 - Allied bombers destroy Dueren , Germany . 1945 - The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the improvement of rocket technology in an approach named Operation Paperclip. 1959 - The musical The Sound of Music opens on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. 1973 - NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral , Florida for a mission lasting 84 days. 1973 - Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act is signed into law by President Richard Nixon, which authorizes the construction of the Alaska Pipeline. 1982 - An agreement is reached by the NFL and the players union ending a 57 day strike, resulting in only a 9 game season. 1988 - Benazir Bhutto is elected leader of Pakistan becoming the first woman leader of a Muslim country in modern history. 1999 - Cherica Adams, the pregnant girlfriend of NFL wide receiver Rae Carruth, is shot four times in her car. 2000 - President Clinton visits Vietnam , becoming the first U.S. President to do so since the end of the Vietnam War. |
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