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Events that Happened “A Day as Today”

A Day as Today - Dorian's Secrets — *Events that Happened “A Day as Today”*

November 16 – A Day as Today

534: in Rome, the Emperor Justinian promulgates the revision of the Codex Justinianus.
1272: in England Edward I.
1384: In Poland, Eduviges is crowned “king” of Poland (despite being a woman).
1403: in Syria and Turkey there is an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 on the Richter seismological scale, and a tsunami in the Mediterranean Sea.
1491: in Ávila (Spain) two Jews and six Jewish converts are burned alive in an auto-da-fe, accused of the ritual murder of the so-called Santo Niño de La Guardia.
1493: in the Caribbean Sea, Christopher Columbus arrives on the island of Puerto Rico.
1509: in Edirne (Turkey), 500 km northwest of Istanbul, and almost on the border with Bulgaria, an earthquake occurs.
1518: in Santiago de Cuba, the Spanish conqueror Hernán Cortés embarks for Mexico.
1519: in Cuba, Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar founds the village of San Cristóbal de La Habana (Havana, one of the oldest cities in America).
1532: in Cajamarca (Peru), Francisco Pizarro and his collaborators kidnap the Inca ruler Atahualpa. Six months later they will manage to collect the ransom and will assassinate him.
1618: in Hebei (China) there is an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 on the Richter seismological scale (intensity VIII).
1632: in Lützen (Germany) —in the framework of the Thirty Years’ War – King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden dies in the Battle of Lützen.
1665: the Oxford Gazette magazine, the oldest publication of the British press, is founded in Oxford (England).
1668: the town of Santiago de Cuba is sacked by British privateers.
1700: in Madrid (Spain) Felipe V.
1720: Jack Rackham, better known as Calico Jack or Jack el Calico, and his crew are tried at Saint Jago De La Vega in Jamaica, found guilty of piracy and hanged the next day.
1780: in Cuzco (Peru), the Inca revolutionary leader Túpac Amaru II proclaims the abolition of slavery for the first time in America. On May 18 of the following year, he will be executed by dismemberment and decapitation.
1810: in the province of Corrientes (Argentina) the lawyer Manuel Belgrano founds the village of Curuzú Cuatiá.
1827: in Colombia, about 80 km south of Popayán, at 5:45 p.m. local time, an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 on the scale of magnitude at the moment occurred, leaving a balance of 250 victims. The day before, a less intense earthquake had occurred some 150 km away.
1839: In the state of Andhra Pradesh (India), a storm surge (12 m high) caused by a huge cyclone hits the town of Coringa, destroying 2,000 ships and killing 20,000 people. Already in 1789 the same thing had happened, with the same number of victims.
1870: in the Kingdom of Spain, the Cortes elect Amadeo de Saboya to occupy the throne of that country.
1885: in the United States, George Eastman, founder of the Kodak company, invents nitrocellulose film for printing images.
1901: the first car race takes place at the hippodrome in the city of Buenos Aires.
1904: The United States purchases from Panama, for 40 million dollars, all the rights to the Panama Canal.
1908: at the New York Metropolitan Opera theater (United States), the Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini conducts for the first time.
1914: Pitcher Emilio Palmero pitching for Habana, leaves Fe hitless, but allows a run by combining base on balls, bunt and a wild pitch, the game ends 7 runs to 1.
1918: in Hungary the republic is proclaimed.
1920: in Russia the civil war that started in 1918 ends.
1923: first airplane flight over Antarctica.
1923: Transjordan and Palestine separate.
1923: Interpol is created in the United States.
1923: France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr.
1933: The United States officially recognizes the Soviet Union (created 16 years earlier).
1938: in Spain – in the framework of the Spanish Civil War – the decisive Battle of the Ebro ends, the longest and bloodiest of the entire war, in which the Republican army left 10,000 dead and 20,000 prisoners.
1938: in the Sandoz laboratories of Basel (Switzerland), the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann (1906-2008), while studying the alkaloids produced by ergot of rye, synthesizes lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). He will unintentionally discover its psychotropic effects four years later (April 16, 1943).1940: In Nazi Germany the 1st and 2nd Panzer Groups are created.
1945: in London (United Kingdom), the representatives of 44 countries agree to create UNESCO.
1946: in the United States, a carrier pigeon is decorated for its courier services during World War II (1939-1945).
1949: in Belgium a group of students occupied the Castle of the Counts of Ghent to protest against the increase in the price of beer and the abolition of white helmets in the police force.
1952: on the Enewetak Atoll (Marshall Islands), at 11:30 a.m. local time (or 11:30 p.m. world time), the United States detonates the 500-kiloton Ivy King atomic bomb at an altitude of 450 meters.
1957: the Hotel Riviera is inaugurated in the city of Havana, attended by the American criminal Meyer Lansky and the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.
1965: the Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe towards Venus, which becomes the first probe to hit Venus, although it did not transmit scientific data.
1974: From the Arecibo Radio Telescope (Puerto Rico) the Arecibo Message is sent into outer space.
1977: the Council of Europe unanimously approved the entry of Spain – fresh out of the Franco dictatorship – into that body.
1978: in Colombo (capital of Sri Lanka) an airplane accident causes the death of 200 people.
1979: Unesco proclaims Old Havana and the surrounding fortresses a World Heritage Site, as the city celebrates the 460th anniversary of its foundation.
1982: in Asia the Olympic Council of Asia is founded.
1982: in Cuba, Fidel Castro sends a letter to the Cuban internationalist teachers who are in Nicaragua fulfilling primary education missions.
1989: in El Salvador, the Armed Forces assassinate six Jesuit religious and two women.
1989: in Spain, the Paraguayan writer Augusto Roa Bastos wins the Cervantes Prize for Literature.
1990: the Church of Santa María de Altagracia de Jaraíz de la Vera is declared a Site of Cultural Interest.
1996: From the Baikonur cosmodrome (in Kazakhstan), Russia launches the Mars 96 probe, which was due to reach Mars ten months later. However, the ship fails and will fall four hours later, 150 km northwest of the city of Iquique (in northern Chile), near the border with Bolivia, with its 200 g plutonium 238 thermoelectric battery.
1998: the K6-2 400 MHz microprocessor from AMD appears in the United States.
1999: in Havana, Presidents Fidel Castro and Hugo Chávez inaugurate an equestrian monument to Simón Bolívar.
2003: in Porto, Portugal, the Estádio do Dragão is inaugurated.
2007: Comet 17P / Holmes, overtakes the Sun with its coma.
2007: in Antofagasta (Chile), an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale leaves 2 dead and 15,000 affected.
2009: Historic ruling of the González et al. Case (Cotton Field) of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, holding the State of Mexico responsible for femicide for the first time.
2010: Flamenco is declared as Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

Who was Born “A Day as Today”?

Events and Curiosities in Dorian's Secrets — *Who was Born “A Day as Today”?*

November 16 – A Day as Today

42 a. C .: Tiberius, Roman emperor (f. 37).
1436: Leonardo Loredan, Venetian Doge (d. 1521).
1587: Joost van den Vondel, Dutch poet and playwright (d. 1679).
1717: Jean Le Rond d’Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1783).
1766: Rodolphe Kreutzer, French violinist, conductor and composer (d. 1831).
1775: Joaquín Oliet Cruella, Spanish painter (d. 1849).
1779: Miguel de Pombo, hero and martyr of the Independence of Colombia (f. 1816).
1808: José Rufino Echenique, Peruvian military, politician and president (d. 1887).
1810: Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (d. 1836).
1822: Rafael Berenguer y Condé, Spanish painter (d. 1890).
1835; Eugenio Beltrami, Italian mathematician (f. 1900).
1836: David Kalakaua, Hawaiian king (d. 1891).
1839: Louis-Honoré Fréchette, French-Canadian poet (d. 1908).
1841: Agustín Riancho, Spanish painter (d. 1929).
1843: Odoardo Beccari, Italian botanist (d. 1920).
1844: Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor y Flores, Spanish military man and inventor (d. 1912).
1850: Federico Errázuriz Echaurren, Chilean politician and president (d. 1901).
1861: Georgina Febres-Cordero, Venezuelan nun (d. 1925).
1873: W. C. Handy, American blues musician and composer (d. 1958).
1874: Aleksandr Kolchak, Russian sailor, military and explorer (d. 1920).
1885: José Kentenich, German priest, founder of the Schoenstatt Apostolic Movement (f. 1968).
1888: Luis Cluzeau Mortet, Uruguayan classical music composer and musician (d. 1957).
1890: Elpidio Quirino, Philippine president (d. 1956).
1892: Tazio Nuvolari, Italian racing driver (d. 1953).
1895: Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963).
1896: Oswald Mosley, British philosopher and politician (d. 1980).
1899: Warren McCulloch, American neurologist and cybernetician (d. 1969).
1904: Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigerian President (d. 1996).
1905: Eddie Condon, American jazz musician (d. 1973).
1906: Papillon (Henrí Charrière), famous convict (d. 1973).
1908: Nicolás Lindley López, Peruvian military, politician and president (d. 1963).
1909: Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997).
1913: Ramón Sijé, writer, journalist and Spanish lawyer (d. 1935).
1915: Eduardo Simián, Chilean engineer (f. 1995).
1916: Daws Butler, American voice actor (d. 1988).
1916: Malvina Pastorino, Argentine actress (d. 1994).
1917: Manuel Benítez Rufo, Spanish politician (d. 2004).
1917: Manuel Criado de Val, Spanish philologist (d. 2015).
1922: Gene Amdahl, Norwegian-American computational architect (d. 2015).
1922: José Saramago, Portuguese writer, journalist and playwright, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998 (d. 2010).
1924: Mel Patton, American athlete (d. 2014).
1930: Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (d. 2013).
1930: Salvatore Riina, Italian mafia criminal and murderer (d. 2017).
1931: Luciano Bottaro, Italian cartoonist (d. 2006).
1931: José Casas Gris, Spanish footballer (d. 2010).
1935: France-Albert René, president of Seychelles.
1935: Mohamed Hussein Fadlala, Iraqi Ayatollah (d. 2010).
1937: Gerardo Chávez, Peruvian painter.
1938: Robert Nozick, American philosopher (f. 2002).
1939: Eduardo Bauzá, Argentine politician (f. 2019).
1942: Joanna Pettet, Anglo-American actress.
1944: Máximo Valverde, Spanish actor.
1945: Juan Bautista Stagnaro, Argentine filmmaker.
1946: Terence McKenna, American writer, philosopher, ethnobotanist and psychonaut (d. 2000).
1947: Iñaki Anasagasti, Spanish politician.
1947: Enrique Carbajal (Sebastián), Mexican sculptor.
1948: Robert Lange, American music producer.1948: Norbert Lammert, German politician.
1949: Michel Daerden, Belgian politician (d. 2012).
1950: Amelia Valcárcel, Spanish philosopher and feminist.
1950: Harvey Martin, American football player (d. 2001).
1951: Sibila Camps, Argentine journalist, writer and teacher.
1951: Miguel Sandoval, American actor.
1952: Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer.
1952: José Luis García Agraz, Mexican filmmaker.
1953: Jesús Caudevilla Pastor, Spanish writer.
1955: Héctor Cúper, Argentine footballer and coach.
1955: Margarita Musto, Uruguayan actress, theater director, translator and teacher.
1958: Marg Helgenberger, American actress.
1961: Corinne Hermès, French singer.
1961: Sabino Méndez, Spanish musician, of the band Loquillo y los Trogloditas.
1962: Gary Mounfield, British musician, of the band Primal Scream.
1962: Josh Silver, American musician, of the band Type O Negative.
1964: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Italian actress.
1964: Diana Krall, Canadian jazz pianist and singer.
1965: Yamila Cafrune, Argentine singer.
1965: Dave Kushner, American guitarist, of the band Velvet Revolver.
1966: Christian Lorenz, German musician, of the band Rammstein.
1967: Lisa Bonet, American actress.
1970: Martha Plimpton, American actress.
1971: Mustapha Hadji, Moroccan footballer.
1971: Aleksandr Popov, Russian swimmer.
1972: Missi Pyle, American actress.
1973: Christian Horner, British driver, sporting director of the Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team.
1974: Eric Judy, American bassist, of the band Modest Mouse.
1974: Paul Scholes, British footballer.
1976: Augusto Carinelli, Argentine racing driver
1976: MC Babo, Mexican rapper, of the band Cartel de Santa.
1976: Estíbaliz Gabilondo, Spanish actress and reporter.
1977: Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress.
1977: Mauricio Ochmann, Mexican actor.
1978: Gary Naysmith, British footballer.
1979: Jono Grant, DJ of British origin, member of Above & Beyond.
1981: Kate Miller-Heidke, Australian singer and actress.
1982: Amare Stoudemire, American basketball player.
1983: Britta Steffen, German swimmer.
1984: Kimberly J. Brown, American actress.
1985: María Abadi, Argentine actress.
1986: Cezar Washington Alves Portela, Brazilian soccer player.
1987: Javier Orozco, Mexican soccer player.
1988: Siva Kaneswaran, Irish singer, of the band The Wanted.
1988: Vito Wormgoor, Dutch footballer.
1989: Ismael Quílez, Argentine soccer player.
1991: Park Hyung Sik, South Korean actor and singer.
1991: Nemanja Gudelj, Serbian footballer.
1992: Marcelo Brozović, Croatian footballer.
1993: Nélson Semedo, Portuguese soccer player.
1993: Haris Duljević, Bosnian footballer.
1993: Pete Davidson, American comedian.
1993: Ousseynou Thioune, Senegalese footballer.
1995: Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor.
1995: Emanuel Reynoso, Argentine soccer player.
1997: Bruno Guimarães, Brazilian soccer player.
1999: Radosław Majecki, Polish footballer.
2005: Mariam Mamadashvili, Georgian singer.
2006: Mason Ramsey, American singer-songwriter.

Who Left Us “A Day as Today”?

November 16 – A Day as Today

1093: Margaret, Scottish queen, wife of Malcolm III, and Catholic and Anglican saint (b. 1045).
1272: Henry III, English king (b.1207).
1302: Gertrude of Helfta, German Cistercian nun, Catholic saint (b. 1256).
1613: Andrés Rey de Artieda, Spanish writer (b. 1549).
1632: Gustav II Adolf, Swedish king (b.1594).
1724: Jack Sheppard, British thief (b.1702).
1797: Frederick William II, Prussian King (b. 1744).
1799: Pehr Kalm, Swedish botanist and explorer (b. 1716).
1831: Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian general and military theorist (b. 1780).
1836: Lorenzo de Zavala, Mexican politician and historian (b. 1788).
1878: Manuel Pardo y Lavalle, Peruvian politician, president between 1872 and 1876 (b. 1834).
1885 – Louis Riel, Canadian politician (b. 1844).
1891: Pedro Martínez, Mexican general (b. 1835).
1899: Vincas Kudirka, Lithuanian poet (b. 1858).
1931 – Joshua Millner, Irish marksman (b.1847).
1935: Artemio Zeno, Argentine physician and surgeon (b. 1884).
1942: Joseph Schmidt, Romanian tenor (b.1904).
1947: Joaquín Gallegos Lara, Ecuadorian writer (b. 1911).
1954: Lionel Barrymore, American actor (b. 1878).
1959: Florencio Molina Campos, Argentine painter and draftsman (b. 1891).
1960: Clark Gable, American film actor (b.1901).
1968: Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Mexican politician (b. 1894) .5
1970: Luis Jiménez de Asúa, Spanish politician (b. 1889).
1971: Edie Sedgwick, American actress and model (b.1943).
1973: Alan Watts, British philosopher and writer (b.1915).
1975: Wynn Bullock, American photographer (b.1902).
1978: Alfonso Quiroz Cuarón, first Mexican criminologist (b.1910).
1981 – William Holden, American actor (b.1918).
1985: Omayra Sánchez, Colombian girl who died in the Armero Tragedy (b. 1972).
1987: Zubir Said, Singaporean composer (b.1907).
1989: Ignacio Ellacuría, Spanish theologian (b.1930).
1989: Segundo Montes, Spanish philosopher and social scientist (b. 1933).
1989: Juan Ramón Moreno, Spanish Jesuit (b. 1933).
1991: Alberto Girri, Argentine poet and translator (b. 1919).
1993: Lorenzo Hierrezuelo, Cuban musician (b.1907).
1993: Tomás Garcés, Spanish poet and journalist (b.1901).
1993: Lucia Popp, Slovak soprano (b.1939).
1993: Touhí, the first giant panda to be born in captivity outside of China and stay alive (b.1981).
1997: Georges Marchais, French politician (b.1920).
1999: Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine in 1978 (b. 1928).
2000: Joe C., American rapper (b. 1974).
2001: Carlos Estrada, Argentine actor (b.1927).
2001: Tommy Flanagan, American pianist (b.1930).
2005: Edgardo Di Meola, Argentine footballer (b.1950).
2005: Paul Noel, American basketball player (b. 1924).
2005: Henry Taube, Canadian chemist, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry in 1983 (b.1915).
2006: Milton Friedman, American economist, 1976 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics (b.1912).
2006: Pablo Shilton, Argentine actor (b. 1968).
2007: Gene Golub, American mathematician (b.1932).
2008: Luisín Landáez, Venezuelan singer (b.1931).
2009: Antonio de Nigris, Mexican soccer player (b. 1978).
2009: Edward Woodward, British actor (b.1930).
2010: Claude Strebelle, Belgian architect (b.1917).
2011: Armando Morales, Nicaraguan painter (b.1927).
2014: Héctor Arredondo, Mexican actor (b.1970).
2014: Javier Azagra Labiano, Spanish bishop (b.1923).
2014: Josep Maria Bachs, Spanish radio and television presenter (b.1944).
2014: Antoni Badia i Margarit, Spanish philologist and linguist (b.1920).
2014: Serge Moscovici, French social psychologist (b.1925).
2014: José Luis Viejo, Spanish cyclist (b.1949).
2015: Joan Bosch Palau, Spanish filmmaker (b.1925).