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Events on November 16

• 1632 In the Battle of Lützen in the Thirty Years' War, the Swedes under Gustav II. Adolf defeated Wallenstein's imperial troops, although the Swedish king was killed.
• 1869 Shipping traffic through the Suez Canal is opened, with the official opening following one day later.
• 1909 In Germany, the world's first airline is founded: DELAG operates the commercial airships built by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH.
• 1938 As part of his research into ergot, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann produces lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) for the first time.
• 1945 In London, 37 countries adopt the constitution of UNESCO, which, as a UN specialized agency, is to promote education, science, communication, information and culture.
• 1974 The Arecibo message to potential extraterrestrials is sent into space as a radio-wave signal from the Arecibo Observatory.
• 1976 Following critical remarks at a concert in Cologne, the singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann is stripped of his GDR citizenship.
• 1977 Klaus Fischer scores the goal for the final 4:1 score with a bicycle kick in the Germany–Switzerland international at the Neckarstadion in Stuttgart. The goal is later voted Goal of the Year, then Goal of the Decade and finally Goal of the Century by the ARD Sports Show.
• 1992 The neo-Nazi organization Nationalistische Front is banned by German Federal Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters.
• 1995 Oskar Lafontaine succeeds Rudolf Scharping as the federal chairman of the SPD.
• 2001 The German Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder wins the confidence vote in the Bundestag linked to the Bundeswehr deployment in Afghanistan.
• 2022 The NASA mission Artemis 1, with the Orion spacecraft, successfully begins the second unmanned flight to the Moon.

Born on November 16

• 1891 Julius Leber, German politician and resistance fighter
• 1892 Tazio Nuvolari, Italian motorcycle and automobile racing driver
• 1895 Paul Hindemith, German composer and musician
• 1922 José Saramago, Portuguese novelist, poet, essayist, short-story writer, playwright and diarist, Nobel laureate
• 1930 Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer
• 1930 Salvatore Riina, Italian Mafia boss
• 1951 Charly Graf, German professional boxer and author
• 1961 Karen Duve, German writer
• 1992 Marcelo Brozović, Croatian footballer
• 1993 Stefan Küng, Swiss-Liechtensteinese road racing cyclist

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „16. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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