16 November on the globe: what happened in the world on this day, and who was born

The second edition of the Code of Justinian, a codification of Roman law by Byzantine emperor Justinian I, was published.

Emperor Li Jing sends a Southern Tang expeditionary force of 10,000 men under Bian Hao to conquer Chu. Li Jing removes the ruling family to his own capital in Nanjing, ending the Chu Kingdom.

While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes King of England upon Henry III of England's death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne.

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.

An auto-da-fé, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.

Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca.

King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed at the Battle of Lützen during the Thirty Years' War.

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

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

The Prussian heir apparent, Frederick William, becomes King of Prussia as Frederick William III.

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

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

Greek War of Independence: The London Protocol entails the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty, encompassing the Morea and the Cyclades.

A Russian court sentences writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.

David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia-Zimbabwe.

Second relief of Lucknow: Twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day.

Fisgard Lighthouse, built in the Colony of Vancouver Island, shines its first light, becoming the first permanent lighthouse in present-day British Columbia

American Civil War: In the Battle of Campbell's Station, Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces which allows General Ambrose Burnside to secure Knoxville, Tennessee.

The National Rifle Association of America receives its charter from New York State.

Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason.

English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).

Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.

The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.

World War I: Austro-Hungarian forces launched an assault against Serbian defensive positions at the Kolubara river, beginning the Battle of Kolubara.

Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.

The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.

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

New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.

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

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

The Jussi Awards, the Finnish film award ceremony, is held for the first time at Restaurant Adlon in Helsinki.

World War II: In support of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, the town of Düren is destroyed by Allied aircraft.

World War II: Operation Queen commenced with one of the heaviest Allied tactical bombings of the war, attacking German targets in the Rur valley.

UNESCO is founded.

Aeroflot Flight 315 crashes on approach to Lviv Airport, killing all 40 people on board.

National Airlines Flight 967 explodes in mid-air over the Gulf of Mexico, killing all 42 aboard.

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.

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.

The Temptations release their Greatest Hits album, which goes on to be the Billboard Year-End R&B album of 1967.

Aeroflot Flight 2230 crashes near Koltsovo Airport, killing 107.

Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.

U.S. president Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.

The Arecibo message is broadcast from Puerto Rico.

The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.

About 30 million people watched the fictional couple Luke Spencer and Laura Webber wed on the television show General Hospital in the highest-rated hour in American soap opera history.

Aeroflot Flight 3603 crashes during landing at Norilsk Airport, killing 99.

In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.

The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.

El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.

Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.

After nearly 18 years of incarceration, China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.

The first cases of the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak are traced to Foshan, Guangdong Province, China.

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.

Following a 31-year wait, Australia defeats Uruguay in a penalty shootout to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-129 to the International Space Station.

The El Dorado Fire in California, United States, was extinguished after 71 days, having destroyed 20 structures and killed one firefighter.

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.

Guillermo Lasso, Ecuadoran businessman, 47th President of Ecuador

José Saramago, Portuguese novelist and Nobel laureate in Literature (died 2010)

Tiberius, Roman emperor (died 37 AD)

Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (died 1793)

Sanna Marin, Finnish politician, former Prime Minister of Finland

Alexander Kolchak, Russian admiral and explorer (died 1920)

Paul Scholes, English footballer and sportscaster

Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austrian philosopher and politician (died 1972)

Burgess Meredith, American actor, singer, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1997)

Robert Nozick, American philosopher, author, and academic (died 2002)

Paul Hindemith, German composer, violist and conductor (died 1963)

Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigerian statesman, 1st President of Nigeria (died 1996)

Marcelo Brozović, Croatian footballer

Nélson Semedo, Portuguese footballer

Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (died 1572)

Oswald Mosley, English fascist leader and politician (died 1980)

Bruno Guimarães, Brazilian footballer

Salvatore Riina, Italian mob boss (died 2017)

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Italian-French actress, director, and screenwriter

Elpidio Quirino, 6th President of the Philippines (died 1956)

André-Frank Zambo Anguissa, Cameroonian footballer

Kalākaua of Hawaii (died 1891)

Luigi Facta, Italian politician and journalist (died 1930)

Guo Moruo, Chinese historian, author, and poet (died 1978)

Terence McKenna, American botanist, philosopher, and author (died 2000)

Héctor Cúper, Argentine footballer, coach, and manager

Amar'e Stoudemire, American-Israeli basketball player

Mustapha Hadji, Moroccan footballer and manager

Christian Lorenz, German keyboard player

Britta Steffen, German swimmer

Nemanja Gudelj, Serbian footballer

Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer (died 2015)

Kate Miller-Heidke, Australian singer-songwriter

W. C. Handy, American trumpet player and composer (died 1958)

Alexander Popov, Russian swimmer and coach

Aditya Roy Kapur, Indian actor

Beatrice of Naples, Hungarian queen (died 1508)

Boulaye Dia, Senegalese footballer

Mats Wieffer, Dutch footballer

Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Iraqi-Lebanese cleric, educator, and author (died 2010)

Zina Garrison, American tennis player

Leonardo Loredan, Italian ruler (died 1521)

Tazio Nuvolari, Italian race car driver and motorcycle racer (died 1953)

Jo Jo White, American basketball player and coach (died 2018)

Christian Horner, English race car driver and manager

Jónas Hallgrímsson, Icelandic poet, author and naturalist (died 1845)

Gemma Atkinson, English model and actress

Omar Mateen, Islamic terrorist, perpetrator of the Orlando nightclub shooting (died 2016)

Dénes Dibusz, Hungarian football player

Jean Chardin, French-English jeweler and explorer (died 1703)

Choudhry Rahmat Ali, Indian-Pakistani academic (died 1951)

Mel Patton, American sprinter and coach (died 2014)

Princess Cecilia of Sweden (died 1627)

George S. Kaufman, American director, producer, and playwright (died 1961)

Frank Bruno, English boxer

John Bright, English academic and politician (died 1889)

Joanna Pettet, English actress (died 2026)

Barbara Smith, American writer

Mark Bunn, English footballer

James McHenry, Irish-American surgeon and politician (died 1816)