Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 16

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  Pizarro's tomb, Lima
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  Battle of Cajamarca
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  Atahualpa, last Inca emperor
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  3D representation of an LSD molecule
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  SARS Virus
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  Wei Jingsheng
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  Louis Riel
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  "Hoxne Tigress"
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  First Qantas office, 1921
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  The Trans-Alaska Pipeline
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  A view of the attack against Fort Washington, by Thomas Davies
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  Mosaic of Justinian I in the Basilica of San Vitale
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  Flag of UNESCO

• 534 – The second edition of the Code of Justinian, a codification of Roman law by Byzantine emperor Justinian I (pictured), was published.
• 1476 – With the help of Stephen III and Stephen Báthory, Vlad the Impaler ousted Basarab the Old and became the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
• 1532 – Spanish conquest of Peru: Conquistador Francisco Pizarro orchestrated a surprise attack in Cajamarca, capturing the Inca emperor, Atahualpa.
• 1632 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed at the Battle of Lützen during the Thirty Years' War.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Fort Washington on Manhattan was captured from the Patriots by British and Hessian units.
• 1914 – World War I: Austro-Hungarian forces launched an assault against Serbian defensive positions at the Kolubara river, beginning the Battle of Kolubara.
• 1944 – World War II: Operation Queen commenced with one of the heaviest Allied tactical bombings of the war, attacking German targets in the Rur valley.
• 1959 – The Sound of Music, a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein based on The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
• 1973 – U.S. president Richard Nixon signed an act authorizing the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to transport oil from the Beaufort Sea to the Gulf of Alaska.
• 1992 – In Suffolk, England, a local man found the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold in Britain (sample pictured), including the largest collection of 4th- and 5th-century gold and silver coins ever discovered within the former Roman Empire.
• 1997 – Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, released on ostensibly medical grounds after spending eighteen years in prison, was deported to the United States.
• 2002 – The first case of SARS, a zoonotic respiratory coronavirus disease, was recorded in Guangdong, China.
• 2020 – The El Dorado Fire in California, United States, was extinguished after 71 days, having destroyed 20 structures and killed one firefighter.

• Born/died this day: | Nasr of Granada |d|1322| Turibius of Mogrovejo |b|1538| Augustus Jones |d|1836| Kalākaua |b|1836| Caroline Birley |b|1851| Chinua Achebe |b|1930| Shigeru Miyamoto |b|1952| Paul Scholes |b|1974| Maggie Gyllenhaal |b|1977| Santiago Peña |b|1978| Omayra Sánchez |d|1985| Panditrao Agashe |d|1986| Tommy Flanagan |d|2001| Henry Taube |d|2005| Milton Friedman |d|2006| Arthur Ngirakelsong |d|2022| A. S. Byatt |d|2023|

• David Livingstone appears on November 10, so Victoria Falls should not appear in the same year
• Washington (state) appears on November 11, so Oklahoma should not appear in the same year.