16th November anniversaries

• Birth
• event
  • 1750
  • Original Westminster Bridge opened (replaced in 1862 due to subsidence)
  • 1857
  • Relief of Lucknow
  • 1928
  • Great Britain
  • "Obscenity charges were brought against Radclyffe Hall’s novel ‘The Well of Loneliness’, in London."
  • 1933
  • The USA and USSR established formal diplomatic relations .
  • 1959
  • "The musical The Sound of Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein opened on Broadway, New York"
  • 1979
  • A US Government report confirmed that thousands of ground troops in Vietnam had been exposed to the toxic herbicide Agent Orange
  • 1988
  • "Benazir Bhutto was elected prime minister of Pakistan, becoming the first female leader of a Muslim state."
  • 1989
  • "South African President F.W. de Klerk announced that the Separate Amenities Act was to be scrapped. The countrys beaches were immediately opened to all races, with other facilities to follow"
• Death
  • 1499
  • "Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne, executed"
  • 1983
  • "Death of Arthur Askey, British comedian and actor ."
  • 1999
  • "Death of Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist who won the Nobel Prize for discovering restriction enzymes that break DNA strands into fragments, making it possible to study their genetic information"