WHAT HAPPENED ON 16. NOVEMBER
Want to find out what all happened on 16. November

LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland. (16. November 1938)

World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg. (16. November 1940)

Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world. (16. November 1940)

New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison. (16. November 1940)

World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway. (16. November 1943)

World War II: Operation Queen, the costly Allied thrust to the Rur, is launched. (16. November 1944)

World War II: Dueren, Germany, is destroyed by Allied bombers. (16. November 1944)

UNESCO is founded. (16. November 1945)

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. (16. November 1965)

Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission. (16. November 1973)

U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline. (16. November 1973)

The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania. (16. November 1979)

The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence. (16. November 1988)

In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan. (16. November 1988)

A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University. (16. November 1989)

The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk. (16. November 1992)

After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons. (16. November 1997)