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This Day In History – November 16
42 BC – Tiberius, Roman emperor (d. 37) was born.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.
1776 – American Revolution: the United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States.
1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Campbell’s Station near Knoxville, Tennessee – Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces.
1885 – Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and “Father of Manitoba”, Louis Riel is executed for treason.
1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, that is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
1940 – Holocaust: in occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
1945 – UNESCO is founded.
1945 – The United States brings 88 German scientists who had been working on the V-1 and V-2 rockets for Germany to work on the American Space / Defense program . Video shows a US built V2 rocket built by German Scientists working for America
1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
2002 – The United States government decided to begin closely monitoring all Iraqis present within the U.S.A. The government felt this was necessary in case terrorist-sympathetic individuals originating from Iraq were still hiding within the borders of the U.S. Security against terrorists has been a major priority since the terrorist bombings that took place in New York a little over a year from this date. Thousands of people were killed after the north and south towers of the World Trade Center were hit by hijacked planes.
2012-11-15 22:20:09
Source: http://deadlinelive.info/2012/11/15/this-day-in-history-november-16/
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