Editing November 16 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1904]] &ndash; English engineer [[John Ambrose Fleming]] receives a patent for the [[vacuum tube|thermionic valve]] (vacuum tube).
*[[1907]] &ndash; [[Indian Territory]] and [[Oklahoma Territory]] join to form [[Oklahoma]], which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
*[[1914]] &ndash; The [[Federal Reserve Bank]] of the [[United States]] officially opens.
*[[1920]] &ndash; [[Qantas]], Australia's national airline, [[History of Qantas|is founded]] as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
*[[1933]] &ndash; The United States and the [[Soviet Union]] establish formal [[Soviet Union–United States relations|diplomatic relations]].
*[[1938]] &ndash; [[Lysergic acid diethylamide|LSD]] is first synthesized by [[Albert Hofmann]] from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.<ref>[[Albert Hofmann]]; translated from the original German (LSD Ganz Persönlich) by J. Ott. [http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v06n3/06346hof.html MAPS-Volume 6, Number 69, Summer 1969].</ref>
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: In response to the [[Coventry Blitz|leveling of Coventry]] by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force [[Bombing of Hamburg in World War II|bombs Hamburg]].
*  1940   &ndash; [[The Holocaust]]: In occupied Poland, the [[Nazism|Nazis]] close off the [[Warsaw Ghetto]] from the outside world.
*  1940   &ndash; New York City's "Mad Bomber" [[George Metesky]] places his first bomb at a [[Manhattan]] office building used by [[Consolidated Edison]].
*[[1944]] &ndash; World War II: In support of the [[Battle of Hürtgen Forest]], the town of [[Düren]] is destroyed by Allied aircraft.
*  1944   &ndash; The [[Jussi Awards]], the Finnish film award ceremony, is held for the [[1st Jussi Awards|first time]] at Restaurant Adlon in [[Helsinki]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elokuvauutiset.fi/site/93-jussi-palkinnot/jussi-palkinnot/3326-jussi-palkinnot-vuonna-1944|title=Jussi-palkinnot vuonna 1944|website=Elokuvauutiset.fi|accessdate=October 11, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161011230442/http://elokuvauutiset.fi/site/93-jussi-palkinnot/jussi-palkinnot/3326-jussi-palkinnot-vuonna-1944|archive-date=October 11, 2016|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref>
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[UNESCO]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web |title=UNESCO {{!}} Definition, History, Members, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/UNESCO |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=26 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1958]] &ndash; [[National Airlines Flight 967]] explodes in mid-air over the Gulf of Mexico, killing all 42 aboard.<ref>{{ASN accident|id=19591116-1}}</ref>
*[[1959]] &ndash; [[Aeroflot Flight 315 (1959)|Aeroflot Flight 315]] crashes on approach to Lviv Airport, killing all 40 people on board.<ref name="asn">{{cite web |title=Monday 16 November 1959 |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19591116-0 |access-date=27 July 2019 |website=aviation-safety.net |publisher=Aviation Safety Network}}</ref>
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Venera program]]: The Soviet Union launches the ''[[Venera 3]]'' space probe toward [[Venus]], which will be the first [[spacecraft]] to reach the surface of another [[planet]].
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Aeroflot Flight 2230]] crashes near [[Koltsovo International Airport|Koltsovo Airport]], killing 107.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-ilyushin-ii-18v-sverdlovsk-107-killed|title=Crash of an Ilyushin II-18V in Sverdlovsk: 107 killed|website=B3A Archives}}</ref>
*[[1973]] &ndash; [[Skylab]] program: [[NASA]] launches ''[[Skylab 4]]'' with a crew of three [[astronaut]]s from [[Cape Canaveral, Florida]] for an 84-day mission.<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4208/ch17.htm |title=Living and Working in Space: A History of Skylab |chapter=The Last Mission |last1=Benson |first1=Charles Dunlap |last2=Compton |first2=William David |date=November 1981 |publisher=[[NASA]] |access-date=21 October 2021}}</ref>
*  1973   &ndash; U.S. President [[Richard Nixon]] signs the [[Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act]] into law, authorizing the construction of the [[Alaska Pipeline]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.justice.gov/crt/federal-coordination-and-compliance-section-51 |title=Federal Coordination And Compliance Section |date=13 November 2000 |website=[[The United States Department of Justice]] |access-date=21 October 2021}}</ref>
*[[1974]] &ndash; The [[Arecibo message]] is broadcast from Puerto Rico.
*[[1979]] &ndash; The first line of [[Bucharest Metro]] (Line M1) is opened from [[Timpuri Noi metro station|Timpuri Noi]] to [[Petrache Poenaru metro station|Semănătoarea]] in [[Bucharest]], Romania.
*[[1981]] &ndash; [[Aeroflot Flight 3603]] crashes during landing at [[Alykel International Airport|Norilsk Airport]], killing 99.
*[[1988]] &ndash; The [[Supreme Soviet]] of the [[Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic]] [[Estonian Sovereignty Declaration|declares]] that [[Estonia]] is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.
*  1988   &ndash; In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in [[Pakistan]] elect populist candidate [[Benazir Bhutto]] to be [[Prime Minister of Pakistan]].
*[[1989]] &ndash; El Salvadoran army troops [[1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador|kill six Jesuit priests]] and two others at [[Central American University (San Salvador)|Jose Simeon Canas University]].
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[Pop music|Pop group]] [[Milli Vanilli]] are stripped of their [[Grammy Award]] because the duo did not sing at all on the ''[[All or Nothing (Milli Vanilli album)|Girl You Know It's True]]'' album. [[Session musician]]s had provided all the vocals.
*[[1992]] &ndash; The [[Hoxne Hoard]] is discovered by [[metal detector]]ist Eric Lawes in [[Hoxne]], Suffolk.
*[[1997]] &ndash; After nearly 18 years of incarceration, [[China]] releases [[Wei Jingsheng]], a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
*[[2002]] &ndash; The first cases of the [[2002–2004 SARS outbreak]] are traced to [[Foshan]], Guangdong Province, China.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Horstman|first1=Mark|date=7 April 2003|title=The facts about SARS|agency=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|url=https://www.abc.net.au/science/features/sars/outbreak.htm|url-status=live|access-date=25 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191224122800/http://www.abc.net.au/science/features/sars/outbreak.htm|archive-date=24 December 2019}}</ref>
*[[2004]] &ndash; [[Half-Life 2]] is released, a game winning 39 Game of the Year awards and being cited as one of the best games ever made.
*[[2005]] &ndash; Following a 31-year wait, [[Australia men's national soccer team|Australia]] defeats [[Uruguay national football team|Uruguay]] in a [[penalty shootout]] to qualify for the [[2006 FIFA World Cup]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/the-kick-that-changed-the-game-down-under-2733096 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180513035503/http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/the-kick-that-changed-the-game-down-under-2733096 |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 13, 2018 |title=The kick that changed the game Down Under.|date=2015 |accessdate=1 May 2021 |page=1 |publisher= FIFA}}</ref>
*[[2009]] &ndash; [[Space Shuttle program]]: [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] is launched on mission [[STS-129]] to the [[International Space Station]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=STS-129 |url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-129/ |access-date=2023-11-11 |publisher=NASA}}</ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; [[Artemis Program]]: [[NASA]] launches ''[[Artemis 1]]'' on the first flight of the [[Space Launch System]], the start of the program's future missions to the moon.<ref>{{cite web |title=Liftoff! NASA's Artemis I Mega Rocket Launches Orion to Moon|date=16 November 2022 |url=https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/liftoff-nasa-s-artemis-i-mega-rocket-launches-orion-to-moon|access-date=16 November 2022}}</ref>