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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_16" title="November 16">November 16</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1914" title="1914">1914</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria-Hungary" title="Austria-Hungary">Austro-Hungarian</a> forces launched an assault against Serbian defensive positions at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolubara" title="Kolubara">Kolubara river</a>, beginning the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kolubara" title="Battle of Kolubara">Battle of Kolubara</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973" title="1973">1973</a> – U.S. president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a> signed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_Authorization_Act" title="Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act">an act</a> authorizing the construction of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Alaska_Pipeline_System" title="Trans-Alaska Pipeline System">Trans-Alaska Pipeline</a></b> to transport oil from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_Sea" title="Beaufort Sea">Beaufort Sea</a> to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Alaska" title="Gulf of Alaska">Gulf of Alaska</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997" title="1997">1997</a> – Chinese dissident <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wei_Jingsheng" title="Wei Jingsheng">Wei Jingsheng</a></b>, released on ostensibly medical grounds after spending eighteen years in prison, was deported to the United States.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002" title="2002">2002</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%932004_SARS_outbreak" title="2002–2004 SARS outbreak">The first case</a> of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS" title="SARS">SARS</a></b>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonosis" title="Zoonosis">zoonotic</a> respiratory <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_diseases" title="Coronavirus diseases">coronavirus disease</a>, was recorded in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong" title="Guangdong">Guangdong</a>, China.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020" title="2020">2020</a> – The <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Dorado_Fire" title="El Dorado Fire">El Dorado Fire</a></b> in California, United States, was extinguished after 71 days, having destroyed 20 structures and killed one firefighter.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turibius_of_Mogrovejo" title="Turibius of Mogrovejo">Turibius of Mogrovejo</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1538); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus_Jones" title="Augustus Jones">Augustus Jones</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1836); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_Miyamoto" title="Shigeru Miyamoto">Shigeru Miyamoto</a></b>   (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1952); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Taube" title="Henry Taube">Henry Taube</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 2005)</p>