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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)
Current events/2023 November 16. The Israel Defense Forces surround Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City with tanks. (Middle East Monitor) Israeli Police kill three gunmen who attacked a checkpoint near Jerusalem, injuring six security forces. (AFP via RFI)
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 ...
November 30, 1965 (Tuesday) Unsafe at Any Speed, the exposé by attorney and auto safety advocate Ralph Nader, was released by Grossman Publishers and became a bestseller. The most dangerous cars on the road were identified by Nader, with special attention given to models of the Chevrolet Corvair.
Disasters and accidents A fire at a food processing plant kills at least 18 workers in Shandong, China. (South China Morning Post) US planes are warned to avoid an Alaskan volcano, Pavlof. (News.com.au) At least four people are killed in mudslides in southern Switzerland and northern Italy after days of heavy rain. (BBC) Health Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Authorities in the Netherlands ban ...
2020 United States presidential election. Plaintiffs aligned with President Donald Trump 's re-election campaign and the GOP announces that they will drop lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia challenging ballots and attempting to block the states from certifying their election results.
Disasters Thai authorities consider constructing a waterway linking existing natural canals into a 200-km long "super-canal" that would hold 1.6B cubic meters of water and speed the draining of run-off to prevent flooding like that currently inundating Bangkok and other parts of the country. (CNN) Eighteen children and two adults die after an overloaded school bus collides with a coal truck in ...
16 November. Next time. 16 November 2024. ( 2024-11-16) Frequency. annual. The International Day for Tolerance is an annual observance day declared by UNESCO in 1995 to generate public awareness of the dangers of intolerance. It is observed on 16 November .