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more events on November 16
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1997
Pro-democracy Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng released from prison after 18 years, for health reasons.
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1992
Eric Lawes, while using a metal detector to search for a friend’s lost hammer near Hoxne, Suffolk, England, discovers the Hoxne Hoard, the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold ever found in Britain, and the largest collection of 4th and 5th century coins found anywhere within the bounds of the former Roman Empire
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1989
Salvadoran Army death squad kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
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1982
The space shuttle Columbia completes its first operational flight.
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1979
American Airlines is fined $500,000 for improper DC-10 maintenance.
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1967
U.S. planes hit Haiphong shipyard in North Vietnam for the first time.
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1965
In the last day of the fighting at Landing Zone X-Ray, regiments of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division repulse NVA forces in the Ia Drang Valley.
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1960
After the integration of two all-white schools, 2,000 whites riot in the streets of New Orleans.
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1955
The Big Four talks, taking place in Geneva on German reunification, end in failure.
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1953
The United States joins in the condemnation of Israel for its raid on Jordan.
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1952
Peter Keefe, TV producer (Voltron); credited with introducing American audiences to Japanese animation.
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1948
President Harry S Truman rejects four-power talks on Berlin until the blockade is removed.
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1945
Eighty-eight German scientists, holding Nazi secrets, arrive in the United States.
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1935
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Twelver Shi’a scholar; sometimes called the “spiritual mentor” of Hezbollah.
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1930
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist.