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This is a list of selected November 16 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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International Day for Tolerance stub
Day of Declaration of Sovereignty in Estonia (1988) refimprove
1491 – Several Jews and conversos were executed in Toledo, Spain, for the alleged ritual murder of an infant, who was later revered as the Holy Child of La Guardia. unreferenced section
1805War of the Third Coalition: At the Battle of Schöngrabern, Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delayed the pursuit by French troops under Joachim Murat. needs more footnotes, short
1855 – Explorer David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls, one of the largest waterfalls in the world, on what is now the Zambia–Zimbabwe border. refimprove section
1871 – The United States' National Rifle Association was first chartered in the state of New York by William Conant Church and George Wood Wingate. outdated, criticism section
1907 – Two years after the failed attempt by the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory to achieve U.S. statehood, they joined with the Oklahoma Territory to become the 46th state to enter the union. too many images
1920Qantas, Australia's national airline, was founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services. Uncited material
1938 – Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD in Basel, Switzerland. Uncited material
1945 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded. Lots of cn
1959The 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. lots of CN tags (8), especially in one section
1974 – The Arecibo message, devised by Frank Drake and Carl Sagan and carrying basic information about humanity, was transmitted towards the globular star cluster M13. Unreferenced material
1989 – Eight employees of Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" in San Salvador, including six Catholic priests, were murdered by a Salvadoran Army "death squad". refimprove section
Edmund of Abingdon |d|1240| needs more footnotes
Zubir Said|d|1987 Unreferenced passages

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