November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 45.
Railways
- 16 November 1898 With the agreement signed by the Bulgarian Business Company and the Şark De¬miryolları Company, the operation of the line extending to Yanbolu in Sarımbey was leased to the Bulgarians.
- 16 November 1919 Delegation asked the Ministry of Public Order Cemal Pasha to initiate the Eskişehir-Ankara train line from the government as soon as possible.
- 16 November 1933 Fevzipaşa-Diyarbakır line reached Baskil at 319.km.
- 16 November 1937 The foundation of the Diyarbakır-Cizre line, which will reach the border with Iraq and Iran, was laid with the ceremony attended by Atatürk.
Events
- 636 – Battle of Qadisiya begins.
- 1532 - Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa.
- 1698 – Negotiations for the Treaty of Karlowitz started.
- 1849 - A court in Russia sentenced Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for his anti-Government actions, which was later commuted to hard labor.
- 1881 – NGC 281, an H II region in the constellation Cassiopeia and part of the Perseus arm, is discovered by Edward Barnard.
- 1893 - Sparta Praha Club was founded.
- 1907 - Territories known as Native American Territories and Oklahoma Territories were combined and joined the USA as the 46th state under the name of Oklahoma.
- 1918 – Tripoli Republic was proclaimed in Msallata city.
- 1919 – With the permission of the Romanian Army, Miklós Horthy's Army enters Budapest.
- 1926 - Indian poet Tagore came to Istanbul. Tagore, “The reforms you have made are preparing a bright future not only for Turkey but also for the whole East.” dedicate.
- 1935 – In the United Kingdom, the Conservative Party wins the election with 432 seats.
- 1937 – The foundation of Diyarbakir - Cizre railway, which will reach the borders of Iran and Iraq, was laid.
- 1938 – Atatürk's body was put on the catafalka in Dolmabahçe Palace.
- 1938 – The new government established by Prime Minister Celal Bayar received a vote of confidence by the unanimous vote of 348 members.
- 1938 – LSD was first introduced at Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland, by Swiss chemist Dr. It was synthesized by Albert Hofmann.
- 1940 - Tasvir-i Efkar The newspaper started to be published again by Ziyad Ebüzziya.
- 1942 – The Kokoda Trail Expedition ends.
- 1945 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded.
- 1949 – An assassination report was made to İsmet İnönü and Celâl Bayar. Osman Bölükbaşı and Fuat Arna were arrested for alleged plotting of assassination. When the claim was found to be invalid, they were both released on November 21.
- 1950 – TCG Çanakkale (S-333) joined the Turkish Navy from the US Navy.
- 1967 – The International Poetry Forum, headquartered in the USA, chose Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca as the greatest living Turkish poet.
- 1975 – Lice residents, who became homeless in the September earthquake, occupied the Official Offices.
- 1976 - Two Palestinian guerrillas, Mohammed Rashid and Mahdi Mohammed, are sentenced to life imprisonment. Reşit and Muhammed opened fire on passengers at Yeşilköy airport on August 11, 1976. The guerrillas caught after the action said that they did the action to avenge Israel's raid on Uganda.
- 1979 – Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel, “What we take over is the tail, the absence, the sea of blood.” dedicate.
- 1981 – In the Women's Volleyball World Cup, the China women's national volleyball team won its first championship with 14 points.
- 1983 – Turkish Petroleum Refineries Inc. (TÜPRAŞ) was established.
- 1986 – Architect Sedat Hakkı Eldem received the Aga Khan Architecture Award. Eldem's Social Insurance Institution Building in Zeyrek, Istanbul was deemed worthy of this Award.
- 1987 – Turkish Workers' Party (TIP) Secretary General Nihat Sargın and Turkish Communist Party (TKP) General Secretary Nabi Yağcı, who came to Turkey, were detained.
- 1988 – The regulation that frees the headscarf in higher education institutions was enacted in the Parliament.
- 1991 – Bilge Karasu, "Night" He received the Pegasus Literature Award for his novel.
- 1991 – Hüsamettin Cindoruk, Deputy Chairman of the True Path Party, was elected Speaker of the Grand National Assembly with 286 votes.
- 1999 – In the Women's Volleyball World Cup, the Cuban women's national volleyball team won its 22th championship with 4 points.
- 2004 – Released the first episode of House.
- 2006 – Defeating the Brazil women's national volleyball team 3-2 in the final match of the World Women's Volleyball Championship, Russia won its 4th championship.
- 2007 – In the Women's Volleyball World Cup, Italy women's national volleyball team won its first championship with 22 points.
- 2007 - Donald Tusk takes office as Prime Minister of Poland.
- 2009 – TRT Music started broadcasting.
Births
- 42 BC – Tiberius, Roman Emperor (d. 37)
- 1436 – Leonardo Loredan, 2th duke (d. 1501) who presided over the Republic of Venice with the title of “Doche” during the period of October 21, 1521 – June 75, 1521
- 1603 – Augustyn Kordecki, Polish Catholic abbot (d. 1673)
- 1643 – Jean Chardin, French jeweler and traveler (d. 1713)
- 1717 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert, French mathematician (d. 1783)
- 1836 – Kalakaua, king of Hawaii (d. 1891)
- 1839 – Louis-Honoré Fréchette, Canadian poet, politician, and author (d. 1908)
- 1861 – Luigi Facta, Italian politician (d. 1930)
- 1873 – WC Handy, American jazz musician and composer (d. 1958)
- 1874 – Alexander Kolchak, Russian naval officer, admiral, polar explorer, anti-Bolshevik during the Russian Civil War (d. 1920)
- 1880 – Alexander Blok, Russian poet (d. 1921)
- 1881 – Hugo Meisl, Austrian football player and sportsman (d. 1937)
- 1892 – Guo Moruo, Chinese author, poet, politician, screenwriter, historian, archaeologist, and ancient scriptwriter (d. 1978)
- 1894 – Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Austro-Japanese politician and philosopher (d. 1972)
- 1895 – Paul Hindemith, German composer (d. 1963)
- 1896 – Oswald Mosley, British politician (d. 1980)
- 1902 – Wilhelm Stuckart, German politician and lawyer (d. 1953)
- 1906 Henri Charrière, French writer (d. 1973)
- 1907 Burgess Meredith, American actor (d. 1997)
- 1908 – Sister Emmanuelle, Belgian-French nun and philanthropist (d. 2008)
- 1913 – Ellen Albertini Dow, American actress (d. 2015)
- 1916 Daws Butler, American singer (d. 1988)
- 1922 – José Saramago, Portuguese writer and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
- 1928 – Clu Gulager, American actor and director
- 1930 – Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (d. 2013)
- 1930 – Salvatore Riina, Italian mob boss (d. 2017)
- 1935 – Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Muslim cleric (d. 2010)
- 1936 – Tijen Par, Turkish actress and voice actor
- 1938 – Walter Learning, Canadian theater director, playwright, broadcaster, and actor (d. 2020)
- 1938 – Robert Nozick, American philosopher (d. 2002)
- 1945 Lynn Hunt, American historian
- 1945 – Unal Kupeli, Turkish director, producer and screenwriter
- 1946 – Terence McKenna, American author and philosopher (d. 2000)
- 1946 – Jo Jo White, Former American professional basketball player (d. 2018)
- 1948 – Robert Lange, English musician and producer
- 1950 – John Swartzwelder, American author
- 1951 – Paula Vogel, American playwright and academic
- 1952 – Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese computer game maker
- 1953 Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, Italian diplomat
- 1955 – Héctor Cúper, Argentine coach and former international football player
- 1955 – Guillermo Lasso, Ecuadorian politician
- 1956 – Yunus Söylet, Turkish academic and medical professor
- 1957 – Jacques Gamblin, French actor
- 1957 – Tarık Ünlüoğlu, Turkish theater, TV series and film actor (d. 2019)
- 1958 - Marg Helgenberger, American actress
- 1958 – Sooronbay Jeenbekov, Kyrgyz politician
- 1959 - Corey Pavin, American golfer
- 1961 – Corinne Hermès, French singer
- 1963 – René Steinke, German actor
- 1964 – Diana Krall, Canadian jazz pianist and singer
- 1964 – Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Italian-French film actress
- 1966 – Christian Lorenz, German musician
- 1968 – Serdar Cebe, Turkish newscaster
- 1970 – Dennis Kelly, English dramatist and television writer
- 1971 – Taner Ertürkler, Turkish actor
- 1971 - Mustapha Hadji, Moroccan football player
- 1974 – Hannah Waddingham, English actress and singer
- 1977 - Maggie Gyllenhaal, American actress
- 1978 – Mehtap Sızmaz, Turkish athlete
- 1978 – Gerhard Tremmel, German football player
- 1979 – Çağla Kubat, Turkish model, actress and sportsman
- 1979 – Milada Spalová, Czech volleyball player
- 1980 – Hasan Third, Turkish football player
- 1981 – Caitlin Glass, American ring announcer, host, actress, and voice actor
- 1982 – Amar'e Stoudemire, American basketball player
- 1983 – Ege Çubukçu, Turkish rapper, R&B artist, songwriter and producer
- 1985 – Sanna Marin, 46th prime minister of Finland
- 1986 – Daniel Angulo, Ecuadorian football player
- 1988 – Helly Luv, Kurdish-Finnish singer, dancer and actress
- 1993 – Bahrudin Atajic, Bosnian football player
- 1994 – Brandon Larracuente, American actor
- 1994 – Yoshiki Yamamoto, Japanese football player
- 1995 – Noah Gray-Cabey, American actor and musician
- 1995 – Aslı Bekiroğlu, Turkish actress
Deaths
- 1264 – Lizong, 14th emperor of China's Song Dynasty (b. 1205)
- 1272 – III. Henry, King of England (b. 1207)
- 1328 – Prince Hisaaki, eighth shogun of the Kamakura shogunate (b. 1328)
- 1625 – Sofonisba Anguissola, Italian painter (b. 1532)
- 1797 – II. Friedrich Wilhelm, Ruler of Prussia (b. 1744)
- 1831 – Carl von Clausewitz, Prussian general and intellectual (b. 1780)
- 1833 – René Louiche Desfontaines, French botanist (b. 1750)
- 1836 – Christiaan Hendrik Persoon, German mycologist (b. 1761)
- 1876 – Kazasker Mustafa İzzet Efendi, Turkish calligrapher, composer and statesman (b. 1801)
- 1922 – Hüseyin Hilmi, Turkish socialist politician, founder of the Ottoman Socialist Party and the Turkish Socialist Party, and director of the Free İzmir and Affiliate newspapers (b. 1885)
- 1927 – Adolf Joffe, communist revolutionary, Bolshevik politician, and Karaite diplomat (d. 1883)
- 1934 – Karl von Linde, German inventor (b. 1842)
- 1935 – Celal Sahir Erozan, Turkish poet (b. 1883)
- 1938 – Abbas Mirza Sharifzade, Azerbaijani actor and director (b. 1893)
- 1945 – Sigurður Eggerz, Prime Minister of Iceland (b. 1875)
- 1947 – Giuseppe Volpi, Italian businessman and politician (b. 1877)
- 1960 – Clark Gable, American actor and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor (b. 1901)
- 1964 – Adnan Çalıkoğlu, Turkish politician (b. 1916)
- 1964 – Suphi Konak, Turkish politician (b. 1922)
- 1967 – Native Dancer, US-born thoroughbred racehorse (b. 1950)
- 1971 – Edie Sedgwick, American actress (b. 1943)
- 1973 – Alan Watts, American philosopher (b. 1915)
- 1974 – Ziyaettin Fahri Fındıkoğlu, Turkish sociologist and folklorist (b. 1901)
- 1974 – Werner Issel, German architect (b. 1884)
- 1977 – Muhit Tümerkan, Turkish politician (b. 1906)
- 1982 – İbrahim Öktem, Turkish politician and Minister of National Education (b. 1904)
- 1983 – Dora Gabe, Bulgarian poet, writer, translator and activist (b. 1888)
- 1984 – Leonard Rose, American musician (b. 1918)
- 1990 – Fikret Kolverdi, Turkish painter (b. 1920)
- 1990 – Ege Bagatur, Turkish politician (b. 1937)
- 1993 – Lucia Popp, Slovak opera singer (b. 1939)
- 1995 – Ralph Kronig, German physicist (b. 1904)
- 1997 – Saadettin Erbil, Turkish theater and cinema artist (Father of Mehmet Ali Erbil) (b. 1925)
- 1999 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1928)
- 2000 – Ahmet Kaya, Kurdish-Turkish artist (b. 1957)
- 2005 – Henry Taube, Canadian-American chemist (b. 1915)
- 2005 – Donald Watson, British activist (b. 1910)
- 2006 – Milton Friedman, American economist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
- 2007 – İhya Balak, Turkish bureaucrat (b. 1952)
- 2007 – Nurten İnnap, Turkish folk music artist and actress (b. 1934)
- 2007 – Grethe Kausland, Norwegian singer and actress (b. 1947)
- 2008 – Erkan Ocaklı, Turkish folk music artist (b. 1949)
- 2009 – Antonio De Nigris Guajardo, Mexican football player (b. 1978)
- 2012 – Kerem Güney, Turkish musician (b. 1939)
- 2015 – Atilla Arcan, Turkish actor and comedian (b. 1945)
- 2015 – David Canary, American actor (b. 1938)
- 2015 – Leyla Umar, Turkish journalist (b. 1928)
- 2016 – Mete Dönmezer, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actor (b. 1947)
- 2017 – Robert Hirsch, French actor and comedian (b. 1925)
- 2017 – Ann Wedgeworth, American actress (b. 1934)
- 2018 – George A. Cooper, English actor and voice actor (b. 1925)
- 2018 – Pablo Ferro, Cuban-American graphic designer and designer (b. 1935)
- 2018 – William Goldman, American screenwriter and novelist (b. 1931)
- 2018 – Francisco Serraller, Spanish historian and author (b. 1948)
- 2019 – John Campbell Brown, Scottish astronomer, academic, and scientist (b. 1947)
- 2019 – Diane Loeffler, American politician (b. 1953)
- 2019 – Éric Morena, French singer (b. 1951)
- 2020 – Dairon Blanco, Cuban professional football player (b. 1992)
- 2020 – Henryk Gulbinowicz, Polish Catholic archbishop and Cardinal (b. 1923)
- 2020 – Tomislav Merčep, Croatian politician and convicted former war criminal rank (b. 1952)
- 2020 – Walid Muallim, Syrian diplomat and politician (b. 1941)
- 2020 – Bruce Swedien, Grammy-winning American sound engineer and music producer (b. 1934)
- 2021 – Sezai Karakoç, Turkish poet, writer, thinker and politician (b. 1933)
Holidays and special occasions
- World Day of Tolerance
- Icelandic Day
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