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Historical Events on November 16

  • Battle of Fort Washington

    1776

    American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.

  • Drownings at Nantes

    1793

    French Revolution: 90 dissident Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes.

  • Battle of Schöngrabern

    1805

    Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern: Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Joachim Murat.

  • American Old West

    1822

    American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.

  • Battle of Campbell's Station

    1863

    American Civil War: Battle of Campbell's Station near Knoxville, Tennessee: Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.

  • LSD

    1938

    LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.[1]

  • Coventry Blitz

    1940

    World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.

  • Warsaw Ghetto

    1940

    Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.

  • Benazir Bhutto

    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.

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