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November 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of Declaration of Sovereignty ; Earliest day on which Day of Repentance and Prayer can fall, while November 22 is the latest; celebrated 11 days before Advent Sunday (Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist) and United Protestant churches, Saxony, Bavaria), and its related observance: Volkstrauertag (Germany)
The Battle of Fort Washington was fought in New York on November 16, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain. It was a British victory that gained the surrender of the remnant of the garrison of Fort Washington near the north end of Manhattan. It was one of the worst Patriot defeats of the war. [ 6]
Remembrance Day (11 November) is a national holiday in France and Belgium. It commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at 11:00 am—the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month."
November 4, 1938 (Friday) A Jersey Airways de Havilland DH-86 crashed two minutes after takeoff in Jersey (Channel Islands), killing all 14 aboard and 1 farm worker on the ground. [ 4] The 1938 deportation of Jews from Slovakia by the Hlinka Guard and police began. Died: Samuel W. Bryant, 61, American admiral.
1947 ( MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1947th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 947th year of the 2nd millennium, the 47th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1940s decade.
November 12 is the 316th day of the year ... 2011 – Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective November 16, ...
The Battle of Cajamarca also spelled Cajamalca[ 4][ 5] (though many contemporary scholars prefer to call it Massacre of Cajamarca) [ 6][ 7][ 8] was the ambush and seizure of the Inca ruler Atahualpa by a small Spanish force led by Francisco Pizarro, on November 16, 1532. The Spanish killed thousands of Atahualpa's counselors, commanders, and ...
In 1990, President George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution designating November 1990 as National American Indian Heritage Month. It was later changed to Native American Heritage month under ...