16 November
Notable Births
Mason Ramsey
b. 2006
American singer (born 2006)
Josh Green (basketball)
b. 2000
American-Australian basketball player (born 2000)
Bol Bol
b. 1999
South Sudanese-American basketball player (born 1999)
Mats Wieffer
b. 1999
Dutch footballer (born 1999)
Bruno Guimarães
b. 1997
Brazilian footballer (born 1997)
Ivan Baran
b. 1996
Croatian writer (born 1996)
Boulaye Dia
b. 1996
Footballer (born 1996)
Trinovi Khairani
b. 1996
Indonesian politician (born 1996)
Frank Anguissa
b. 1995
Cameroonian footballer (born 1995)
C. J. Beathard
b. 1993
American football player (born 1993)
Nélson Semedo
b. 1993
Portuguese footballer (born 1993)
Denzel Valentine
b. 1993
American basketball player (born 1993)
Matthew Allwood
b. 1992
Australian rugby league footballer
Marcelo Brozović
b. 1992
Croatian footballer (born 1992)
Shane Prince
b. 1992
American-Belarusian ice hockey player
Nemanja Gudelj
b. 1991
Serbian footballer (born 1991)
Tomomi Kasai
b. 1991
Musical artist
Arjo Atayde
b. 1990
Filipino actor and politician (born 1990)
Dénes Dibusz
b. 1990
Hungarian footballer (born 1990)
Iamsu!
b. 1989
American rapper (born 1989)
Notable Deaths
Vladimir Shklyarov
d. 2024
Russian ballet dancer (1985–2024)
Robert Clary
d. 2022
French actor (1926–2022)
Jyrki Kasvi
d. 2021
Finnish politician (1964–2021)
Sheila Nelson
d. 2020
English string teacher
John Campbell Brown
d. 2019
Scottish astronomer (1947–2019)
Terry O'Neill (photographer)
d. 2019
British photographer (1938–2019)
William Goldman
d. 2018
American writer (1931–2018)
Hiromi Tsuru
d. 2017
Japanese actress
Ann Wedgeworth
d. 2017
American actress (1934–2017)
Jay Wright Forrester
d. 2016
American operations researcher
Melvin Laird
d. 2016
American politician and writer (1922–2016)
Daniel Prodan
d. 2016
Romanian footballer (1972–2016)
David Canary
d. 2015
American actor (1938–2015)
Michael C. Gross
d. 2015
American artist, designer, and film producer
Bert Olmstead
d. 2015
Canadian ice hockey player (1926-2015)
Alton D. Slay
d. 2015
United States Air Force general
Charles Champlin
d. 2014
American film critic and writer (1926–2014)
Jovan Ćirilov
d. 2014
Serbian writer and academic
Ian Craig
d. 2014
Australian cricketer
Jadwiga Piłsudska
d. 2014
Polish pilot (1920–2014)
On This Day in History
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2022
Artemis Program: NASA launches Artemis 1 on the first flight of the Space Launch System, the start of the program's future missions to the moon.
Artemis program
2020
A Vega rocket carrying SEOSat-Ingenio and TARANIS fails after liftoff.
Vega (rocket)
2009
Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-129 to the International Space Station.
Space Shuttle program
2005
Following a 31-year wait, Australia defeats Uruguay in a penalty shootout to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Australia men's national soccer team
2004
Half-Life 2 is released, a game winning 39 Game of the Year awards and being cited as one of the best games ever made.
Half-Life 2
2002
The first cases of the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak are traced to Foshan, Guangdong Province, China.
2002–2004 SARS outbreak
1997
After nearly 18 years of incarceration, China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
China
1992
The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
Hoxne Hoard
1990
Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.
Pop music
1989
El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador
1988
The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
Supreme Soviet
1988
In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Pakistan
1981
Aeroflot Flight 3603 crashes during landing at Norilsk Airport, killing 99.
Aeroflot Flight 3603
1979
The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
Bucharest Metro
1974
The Arecibo message is broadcast from Puerto Rico.
Arecibo message
1973
Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
Skylab
1973
U.S. president Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
Richard Nixon
1967
Aeroflot Flight 2230 crashes near Koltsovo Airport, killing 107.
Aeroflot Flight 2230
1966
The Temptations release their Greatest Hits album, which goes on to be the Billboard Year-End R&B album of 1967.
The Temptations
1965
Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
Venera program