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The 16t o November is the 320t day o the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 45 days bidin.

Events

1272 - Edward I o Ingland becomes King.
1532 - Spaingie conquistadors capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
1632 - Thirty Years' War: King Gustavus Adolphus o Swaden is kilt in the Battle o Lützen in present-day Germany.
1776 - The Unitit Provinces (Law Kintras) recognise the unthirldom o the Unitit States.
1855 - Scots splorer an missionary David Livingstone reaches Victoria Faws (on the Zambezi River) on the present-day mairch atween Zambie an Zimbabwe.
1907 - Oklahoma becomes the 46t state o the Unitit States.
1915 - The Coca-Cola bottle is gien a Unitit States patent.
1918 - The Republic o Hungary is declarit.
1933 - American pilot Jimmie Angel rediscovers the Angel Faws in Venezuela, the tallest watterfaw in the warld.
1933 - The Unitit States recognises the Soviet Union.
1940 - Warld War II: The Ryal Air Force bombs Hamburg in response tae Germany's bombin o Coventry.
1945 - UNESCO is foondit.
1965 - The Soviet Union's Venera probe is launched tae the planet Venus.
1970 - Hafez al-Assad comes tae pouer in Sirie.
1979 - The Bucharest Metro opens.
1980 - A militar base splosion in Bangkok, Thailand, kills 38 fowk.
1993 - Guyana joins the Unitit Naitions.
2000 - US Preses Bill Clinton visits Vietnam.
2006 - Riots occur in Nuku'alofa, Tonga.
2013 - Indie cricketer Sachin Tendulkar retires.
2017 - Cambodie's heichest coort declares the main opposeetion pairty illegal.
2019 - Gotabaya Rajapaksa is electit Preses o Sri Lanka.

1093 - Saunt Margaret o Scotland (b. 1045)
1272 - Henry III o Ingland (b. 1207)
1632 - Gustavus Adolphus o Swaden (b. 1594)
1708 - Alexander Edward, Scots Episcopalian priest, airchitect an laundscape designer (b. 1651)
1797 - Frederick William II o Proushie (b. 1744)
1960 - Clark Gable, American actor (b. 1901)
2006 - Milton Friedman, American economist (b. 1912)
2017 - Hiromi Tsuru, Japanese actress (b. 1960)
2019 - John Campbell Brown, Scots astronomer (b. 1947)