November 16<\/p>\n
1532 \u2013 Having hidden several artillery pieces in houses that had been evacuated by the Inca, Francisco Pizarro and his men ambush and take Inca Emperor Atahualpa hostage at Cajamarca, Peru.<\/p>\n
1776 \u2013\u00a0 Refusing to abandon the garrison, American Colonel Robert Magaw is finally forced to surrender Fort Washington, on the north end of Manhattan Island, to British and Hessian forces under Lieutenant General William Howe.<\/p>\n
1822 \u2013 Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that will become known as the Santa Fe Trail.<\/p>\n
1871 \u2013 The National Rifle Association receives its charter from New York State.<\/p>\n
1904 \u2013 English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve vacuum tube.<\/p>\n
1907 \u2013 Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.<\/p>\n
1914 \u2013 The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.<\/p>\n
1938 \u2013 LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann at Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.<\/p>\n
1940 \u2013 In occupied Poland, Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto stopping anyone from entering or leaving.<\/p>\n
1958 \u2013 National Airlines Flight 967, a Douglas DC-7. explodes in mid-air over the Gulf of Mexico, killing all 42 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n
1965 \u2013 The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3<\/em> space probe toward Venus,\u00a0 the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.<\/p>\n 1973 \u2013 President Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.<\/p>\n 1974 \u2013 A interstellar radio message, developed by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan,\u00a0carrying basic information about humanity and Earth is transmitted from the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico towards the globular cluster Messier 13.<\/p>\n 2002 \u2013 The first cases of the 2002\u20132004 SARS corona virus outbreak are traced to Foshan, Guangdong Province, China.<\/p>\n 2009 \u2013 NASA launches\u00a0Shuttle Atlantis<\/em> on mission STS-129 to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n 2022 \u2013 NASA launches Artemis 1<\/em> on the first flight of the Space Launch System, the start of the program’s future missions to the moon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 16 1532 \u2013 Having hidden several artillery pieces in houses that had been evacuated by the Inca, Francisco Pizarro and his men ambush and take Inca Emperor Atahualpa hostage at Cajamarca, Peru. 1776 \u2013\u00a0 Refusing to abandon the garrison, American Colonel Robert Magaw is finally forced to surrender Fort Washington, on the north end … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61839"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97779,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61839\/revisions\/97779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}