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Events

• 1855 (171 years ago) David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia-Zimbabwe.
• 1914 (112 years ago) The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
• 1933 (93 years ago) The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.
• 1940 (86 years ago) World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
• 1944 (82 years ago) The Jussi Awards, the Finnish film award ceremony, is held for the first time at Restaurant Adlon in Helsinki.
• 1988 (38 years ago) In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
• 1988 (38 years ago) The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
• 1997 (29 years ago) After nearly 18 years of incarceration, China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.

Births

• 42 BC Tiberius, Roman emperor (died 37 AD)
• 1717 (309 years ago) Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (died 1793)
• 1874 (152 years ago) Alexander Kolchak, Russian admiral and explorer (died 1920)
• 1894 (132 years ago) Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian philosopher and politician (died 1972)
• 1922 (104 years ago) José Saramago, Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate in Literature (died 2010)
• 1955 (71 years ago) Guillermo Lasso, Ecuadoran businessman, 47th President of Ecuador
• 1974 (52 years ago) Paul Scholes, English footballer and sportscaster
• 1985 (41 years ago) Sanna Marin, Finnish politician, former Prime Minister of Finland

Deaths

• 1240 (786 years ago) Ibn Arabi, Andalusian Arab philosopher (born 1165)
• 1272 (754 years ago) Henry III of England,
• 1625 (401 years ago) Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian painter (born c. 1532)
• 1797 (229 years ago) Frederick William II of Prussia,
• 1808 (218 years ago) Mustafa IV, Ottoman sultan (born 1779)
• 1960 (66 years ago) Clark Gable, American actor (born 1901)
• 2005 (21 years ago) Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1915)
• 2006 (20 years ago) Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)

All 384 events, births and deaths of November 16