NOVEMBER 16 IN HISTORY

16th NOVEMBER IN HISTORY

• 1380 - French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever
• 1676 - 1st colonial prison organized, Nantucket Mass
• 1700 - Monarch of Brandenburg becomes king of Prussia
• 1835 - Charles Darwin's voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society
• 1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.
• 1907 - Oklahoma becomes the United States 46th state
• 1920 - 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn
• 1945 - UNESCO is founded.
• 1950 - UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps
• 1962 - Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic)
• 1963 - Touch-tone telephone introduced
• 1969 - US President Nixon becomes first president to attend a season NFL game while in office
• 1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
• 1974 - 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away
• 1979 – The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
• 1982 - 5th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 5-lands at Edwards AFB
• 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.
• 1989 - UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference.
• 1992 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
• 1993 - Russian President Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum
• 1997 – After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
• 2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
• 2003 - Lionel Messi makes his official debut for FC Barcelona
• 2013 -Indian cricketeer Sachin Tendulkar scores 74 runs in the final Test innings of his career at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium