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November 16;


Lead Story
1532 Pizarro traps Incan emperor Atahualpa
American Revolution
1776 Fort Washington Is Captured
Automotive
1901 Riker Torpedo Racer sets the world speed record for electric cars
Civil War
1863 Battle of Campbell Station, Tennessee
Cold War
1945 German scientists brought to United States to work on rocket technology
Crime
1957 Ed Gein kills final victim Bernice Worden
Disaster
1999 Construction begins on deadly bonfire
General Interest
1776 Hessians capture Fort Washington
1907 Oklahoma enters the Union
1988 Benazir Bhutto elected leader of Pakistan
Hollywood
2001 First Harry Potter film opens
Literary
1849 Fyodor Dostoevsky is sentenced to death
Music
1959 The Sound of Music premieres on Broadway
Old West
1821 Becknell opens trade on the Santa Fe Trail
Presidential
1973 Nixon supports construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline
Sports
1957 Notre Dame ends Oklahoma record winning streak
Vietnam War
1961 Kennedy decides to increase military aid to Saigon
1970 Ky defends South Vietnamese operations in Cambodia
1971 U.S. provides support to beleaguered Cambodians
World War I
1914 New Fatherland League launched in Germany
World War II
1941 Goebbels publishes his screed of hate


yeeeaa... could of just linked http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history but what's the fun in that.