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Saturday, 15 November 2014
On this day... November 16:
On this day...
November 16
:
Day of Declaration of Sovereignty
in Estonia (
1988
)
1776
–
American Revolutionary War
: British and
Hessian
units
captured
Fort Washington
from the
Patriots
.
1885
– After a
five-day trial
following the
North-West Rebellion
,
Louis Riel
(pictured)
, Canadian rebel leader of the
Métis
and "Father of
Manitoba
", was executed by hanging for high treason.
1944
–
Operation Queen
commenced in
Düren
, Germany, with one of the heaviest
Allied
tactical bombing attacks of the Second World War.
1959
–
The Sound of Music
, a
musical
by
Rodgers and Hammerstein
based on
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
, opened on
Broadway
at the
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
.
1989
– Eight employees of
Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas"
in
San Salvador
, including six Catholic priests, were
murdered
by a
Salvadoran Army
"
death squad
".
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