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On This Day: Tuesday November 16, 2004
This is the 321st day of the year, with 45 days remaining in 2004.
Holidays
Feast day of St Margaret of Scotland, St Agnes of Assisi, St Gertrude of Helfta, St Afan, St Edmund of Abingdon, St Mechtildis of Helfta, St Nikon 'Metanoeite', and St Eucherius of Lyons.
Oklahoma: Admission Day.
United Nations International Day for Tolerance
1776 - West Indies, St Eustatius: Statia and America Day.
Events
1532 - The Incan empire fell to Spain.
1676 - The first US prison was established, on Nantucket island
1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington during the American Revolution.
1821 - Trader William Becknell reaches Santa Fe, NM, via the route that will become known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1824 - Australian explorer Hamilton Hume discovered the Murray River, the longest river in Australia.
1864 - Union General William Sherman and his troops began their March to the Sea during the Civil War.
1889 - The Oahu Railway and Land Company began operating in Hawaii.
1907 - Oklahoma became the 46th state of the Union.
1920 - The Russian civil war ended; the Bolsheviks were victorious.
1920 - Metered mail is born in Stamford, Connecticut with the first Pitney-Bowes postage meter.
1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.
1959 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway.
1969 - Lieutenant William Calley, Jr., faced a court martial for directing his platoon in the massacre of at least 400 unarmed peasants in the Vietnamese village of My Lai.
1973 - Skylab Three, carrying three astronauts, launched from Cape Canaveral for an 84-day mission.
1973 - The Alaska Pipeline was signed into law.
1982 - An agreement was announced, ending a 57-day strike by the National Football League players.
1988 - Benazir Bhutto, daughter of former leader Zulfikar Bhutto, is elected prime minister and first female head of state of Pakistan.
1992 - The Roman Catholic Church issued a new universal catechism, addressing modern-day issues.
1993 - Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum was closed by the Russian authorities.
Births
42 B.C.E. - Tiberius, Roman emperor.
1873 - W.C. (William Christopher) Handy, composer.
1889 - George S. Kaufman, playwright.
1896 - Fibber McGee (Jim Jordan), actor.
1907 - Burgess Meredith, US actor.
This is the 321st day of the year, with 45 days remaining in 2004.
Holidays
Feast day of St Margaret of Scotland, St Agnes of Assisi, St Gertrude of Helfta, St Afan, St Edmund of Abingdon, St Mechtildis of Helfta, St Nikon 'Metanoeite', and St Eucherius of Lyons.
Oklahoma: Admission Day.
United Nations International Day for Tolerance
1776 - West Indies, St Eustatius: Statia and America Day.
Events
1532 - The Incan empire fell to Spain.
1676 - The first US prison was established, on Nantucket island
1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington during the American Revolution.
1821 - Trader William Becknell reaches Santa Fe, NM, via the route that will become known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1824 - Australian explorer Hamilton Hume discovered the Murray River, the longest river in Australia.
1864 - Union General William Sherman and his troops began their March to the Sea during the Civil War.
1889 - The Oahu Railway and Land Company began operating in Hawaii.
1907 - Oklahoma became the 46th state of the Union.
1920 - The Russian civil war ended; the Bolsheviks were victorious.
1920 - Metered mail is born in Stamford, Connecticut with the first Pitney-Bowes postage meter.
1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.
1959 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway.
1969 - Lieutenant William Calley, Jr., faced a court martial for directing his platoon in the massacre of at least 400 unarmed peasants in the Vietnamese village of My Lai.
1973 - Skylab Three, carrying three astronauts, launched from Cape Canaveral for an 84-day mission.
1973 - The Alaska Pipeline was signed into law.
1982 - An agreement was announced, ending a 57-day strike by the National Football League players.
1988 - Benazir Bhutto, daughter of former leader Zulfikar Bhutto, is elected prime minister and first female head of state of Pakistan.
1992 - The Roman Catholic Church issued a new universal catechism, addressing modern-day issues.
1993 - Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum was closed by the Russian authorities.
Births
42 B.C.E. - Tiberius, Roman emperor.
1873 - W.C. (William Christopher) Handy, composer.
1889 - George S. Kaufman, playwright.
1896 - Fibber McGee (Jim Jordan), actor.
1907 - Burgess Meredith, US actor.