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Today In History - November 16 |
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1801 The first edition of New York Evening Post… |
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Famous Persons Born on This Date in History |
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1569 Paul Sartorius 1587 Joost van den Vondel 1615 Guillaume Dumanoir 1653 Joan van Hoorn 1684 Abraham Alewijn 1715 Girolamo Abos 1717 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert 1720 Carlo Antonio Campioni 1757 Daniel Read 1762 Petronella Moens 1766 Rodolphe Kreitzer 1780 Robert Archibald Smith 1793 Francis Danby 1807 Francois Hainl 1810 Friedrich Wilhelm Kucken 1811 John Bright 1822 Charles Smith Hamilton 1827 James Southerton 1829 Anton G. Rubinstein 1835 Elliott Warren Rice 1840 Frederick Scotson Clark 1854 Jules van de Heuvel 1857 Henry Potonie 1860 Edmund Schuecker 1861 Vaclav Suk 1883 Eugeen Van de Velde 1887 Philip Frohman 1888 Burnet Corwin Tuthill 1888 Clinton Golden 1889 George S. Kaufman 1889 Luis Cluzeau-Mortet 1890 Aloys-Henri-Gerard Fornerod 1890 Elpidio Quirino 1890 George Seldes 1895 Michael Arlen 1895 Paul Hindemith 1896 Lawrence Tibbett 1896 Oswald Mosley 1897 Halliwell Hobbes 1899 Mary Margaret McBride 1902 Marcel Boereboom 1904 Eddie Condon 1904 Frederik van der Meer 1908 Burgess Meredith 1912 George Petrie 1916 Daws Butler 1917 John Whiting 1919 Udo Kasemets 1920 Betty Hicks 1922 Royal Dano 1927 Barbara Payton 1928 Clu Gulager 1929 Renate Rubinstein 1930 Alice Adams 1930 Chinua Achebe 1931 Bob Gibson 1932 Barbara Romack 1933 Guy Stockwell 1935 Elizabeth Drew 1935 France-Albert Rene 1936 Shirvani Chalayev 1938 Richard Landry 1938 Toni Brown 1940 Chris Balderstone 1941 Ann Dore McLaughlin 1941 Dan Penn 1942 Donna McKechnie 1943 Winfred "Blue" Lovett 1944 Charles Jay Hammer 1944 David O'Sullivan 1944 Hugo Dittberner 1944 Joanna Pettit, 1945 Martine van Hamel 1946 Barbara Leigh 1948 Aline Issermann 1948 Chi Coltrane 1948 Steve Railsback 1949 Pattie Santos 1949 William Ackerman 1950 Carl J. Meade 1950 David Leisure 1953 Griff Rhys Jones 1958 Marg Helgenberger 1958 Roberto Guerrero 1959 Bert Cameron 1959 Corey Allen Pavin 1961 Frank Bruno 1962 Chuck Finley 1963 Gay "Mani" Mournfield 1963 Zina Garrison Jackson 1964 Dwight Gooden 1965 Glen Edward Day 1965 Valeria Bruni Tedeschi 1966 Dan Nowosielski 1966 Lisa Brown Miller 1966 Tammy Lauren 1966 Tim Scott 1966 Tricia Cast 1967 Gabriel Jongejans 1967 Lawrence Dawsey 1967 Lisa Bonet 1968 Chris Haney 1968 Ebrahim Essop-Adam 1968 Melvin Stewart 1968 Suzi Simpson 1969 Mike Devlin 1969 Thomas Ingalsbe 1970 Jason Carthen 1970 Martha Plimpton 1971 Donald Wolf 1971 Waqar Younis 1973 Howard Smothers 1973 Joe Hudepohl 1973 Sedrick Shaw 1977 Oksana Baiul 1979 Michael Faustino 1979 Salli Wills 1992 Adam Robert Worton (twin actor) 1992 Jacob Joseph Worton (twin actor) |
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On This Date in History |
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13 Tiberius' triumphant procession through Rome after the siege of Germany 1380 French King Charles VI declares no taxes forever 1532 Pizarro captures the Incan Emperor Atahualpa after a victory at Cajamarca 1572 Troops occupy and plunder Zutphen 1632 Battle at Lutzen 1676 The first colonial prison is organized 1677 French troops occupy Freiburg 1683 Hendrik Casimir II of Nassau-Dietz marries Henriette Amalia 1700 Monarch of Brandenburg becomes the King of Prussia 1763 English journalist John Wilkes is injured in a duel 1764 Native Americans surrender to the British in the Indian War of Chief Pontiac 1776 British troops captured Fort Washington 1776 The first gun salute: for the U.S. Andrea Doria 1798 Kentucky becomes the first state to nullify an act of Congress 1801 The first edition of New York Evening Post 1805 The Battle at Schongrabern 1811 An earthquake in Missouri caused the Mississippi River to flow backwards 1824 New York City's Fifth Avenue opens for business 1835 Charles Darwin's voyage is published in the Cambridge Philosophical Society 1841 Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin 1863 Battle of Campbell's Station TN 1864 Confederate retreat at Lovejoy, Georgia 1864 Union General William T. Sherman begins his 'march to the sea' during the Civil War 1870 Spanish Cortes selects King Amadeus I 1875 Battle at Gundet 1875 William Bonwill patents dental mallet to pack gold into cavities 1894 6,000 Armenians are massacred by Turks in Kurdistan 1894 French troops reach Nikki, West Africa 1907 Oklahoma becomes the 46th US state 1908 Arturo Tuscanini starts conducting the New York's Metropolitan Opera 1914 Pope Benedict XV calls for peace 1914 The Federal Reserve System formally opens 1916 U.S.S.R. La Satannaya ammunitions factory explodes, killing 1,000 people 1917 The British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa 1918 The Hungarian People's Republic is declared 1919 Admiral Horthy conquerors Budapest from Bela Kuns, Soviet Republic 1920 The first postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Connecticut 1922 Pope Pius XI calls on the Belgian people to unite 1925 The American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms 1933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with the U.S.S.R. 1935 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo," premieres in New York City 1936 The German air force begins the bombing of Madrid 1939 A German U-boat torpedoes the tanker Sliedrecht near Ireland 1939 Al Capone is freed from Alcatraz 1941 German troops conquer Kertsh 1942 Assault of U.S. B-17 Flying Fortresses on the airport at Sidi Ahmed 1944 The U.S. 9th division and the First Army attack at Geilenkirchen 1947 15,000 demonstrate in Brussels against the mild sentence of the Nazis 1948 Operation Magic Carpet: first plane from Yemen carrying Jews to Israel 1950 Egyptian King Faruk demands the departure of all British troops 1950 The U.N. gets U.S. government approval to issue postage stamps 1950 U.S. President Truman proclaims an emergency crisis caused by communist threat 1955 Johnny Cash made his first chart appearance with "Cry Cry Cry" 1959 "Sound of Music" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 1443 performances 1961 Great Britain limits immigration from the Commonwealth countries 1962 Kuwait adopts a constitution 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 73 points 1963 The Toledo, OH newspaper strike began 1963 The Touch-tone telephone is introduced 1964 The U.S.S.R. performs a nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. 1965 Walt Disney launches the Epcot Center 1966 Dr. Sam Sheppard is freed after 9 years in jail 1966 Roberto Clemente is named the NL MVP 1969 The 1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai, South Vietnam is first reported 1973 President Nixon authorizes the construction of the Alaskan pipeline 1973 Skylab 4 is launched into Earth orbit 1974 The first intentional interstellar radio message sent from the Arecibo telescope 1975 Sandra Haynie wins the LPGA Jacksonville Ladies Golf Open 1976 Rene Levesque's "Parti Quebecois" wins the elections in Quebec 1977 Rod Carew wins the AL MVP award 1982 An Agreement is reached ending a 57 day football strike 1982 Space Shuttle Columbia completes its first operational flight 1987 Actress Lisa Bonet marries singer Lenny Kravitz (on her birthday) 1988 Benazir Bhutto wins the first free Pakistani elections in 11 years 1988 Estonia declares its sovereignty in internal affairs 1988 Jose Canseco is the first unanimous AL MVP since Reggie Jackson 1988 Robin Givens sues Mike Tyson for $125 million for libel 1989 Six Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops 1989 South Africa President FW de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act 1990 Manuel Noriega claims that the U.S. denied him a fair trial 1993 Russian President Yeltsin closes the Lenin museum 1995 Attorney General Janet Reno announces that she has Parkinson disease 1995 Queen Mother Elizabeth undergoes hip surgery |
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