November 16
1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington in New York during the American Revolution.
1864 - During the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea".
1907 - Oklahoma became the 46th state.
1914 - The newly-created Federal Reserve Banks opened in 12 cities.
1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.
1960 - Academy Award-winning actor Clark Gable died in Los Angeles at age 59.
1961 - House Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Texas) died at age 79.
1966 - Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial on charges of murdering his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.
1973 - Skylab 4, with three astronauts on board, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on an 84-day mission.
1973 - President Richard Nixon signed the bill authorizing the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
1988 - Estonia's parliament declared the Baltic republic sovereign.
1991 - Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards won a landslide victory in his bid to return to office, defeating State Rep. David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader.
1995 - Attorney General Janet Reno disclosed that she had Parkinson's disease.
2001 - Investigators found a letter addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) containing anthrax; it was the second letter bearing the deadly germ known to have been sent to Capitol Hill.
2001 - Congress passed a law mandating that airport screeners be federal employees.
2004 - President George W. Bush nominated Condoleezza Rice to succeed Colin Powell as secretary of state.
2006 - Democrats embraced Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in House history, but then selected Steny Hoyer as majority leader against her wishes.
2010 - U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel was convicted on 11 of 13 charges stemming from financial misconduct, prompting fellow lawmakers to censure the 80-year-old New York Democrat.
2010 - The engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton was announced in London.
2010 - President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, the first living service member from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars to receive the nation's top military award.
2015 - President Barack Obama, in Turkey for a meeting of world leaders, conceded that the Paris terror attacks were a “terrible and sickening setback” in the fight against the Islamic State, but forcefully dismissed critics who had called for the U.S. to change or expand its military campaign against the extremists.
2017 - Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken became the first member of Congress to be caught up in a wave of allegations of sexual abuse and inappropriate behavior, after a Los Angeles radio anchor accused him of forcibly kissing her and groping her during a 2006 USO tour. (Franken eventually resigned from the Senate.)
2018 - A U.S. official said intelligence officials had concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi,
2018 - A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to immediately return the White House press credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta.
2019 - Transcripts released in the impeachment inquiry showed Ambassador Gordon Sondland playing a central role in President Donald Trump’s effort to push Ukraine to conduct political investigations as a condition for receiving needed military aid.
2019 - President Donald Trump went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for what he later described as a “very routine physical”; it had not been on Trump’s public schedule, raising suspicions about the president’s health.
Birthdays
22 - Daisey O'Donnell (singer)
24 - Samira Mighty (reality star)
25 - Noah Gray-Cabey (actor)
27 - Casey Moss (actor)
27 - Pete Davidson (actor/comedian)
30 - Amanda Clapham (actress)
33 - Vicky Pattison (reality star)
36 - Kimberly J. Brown (actress)
36 - Gemma Atkinson (model)
38 - Amare Stoudemire (basketball player)
41 - Trevor Penick (singer)
43 - Maggie Gyllenhaal (actress)
43 - Oksana Baiul (figure skater)
46 - Brooke Elliott (actress)
48 - Missi Pyle (actress)
48 - Michael Irby (actor)
48 - Brandi Glanville (reality star)
50 - Martha Plimpton (actress)
52 - Tammy Lauren (actress)
53 - Lisa Bonet (actress)
56 - Harry Lennix (actor)
56 - Dwight Gooden (baseball player)
61 - Helen Pearson (actress)
62 - Marg Helgenberger (actress)
69 - Miguel Sandoval (actor)
70 - David Leisure (actor)
75 - Steve Railsback (actor)
78 - Joanna Pettet (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 16
1895 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 8-4.
1901 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 29-5.
1907 - Nebraska defeats Denver 63-0.
1912 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 14-3.
1918 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 20-0.
1926 - The New York Rangers made their NHL debut with a 1-0 win over the Montreal Maroons.
1929 - Nebraska and Oklahoma play to a 13-13 tie.
1935 - Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 6-0.
1940 - #11 Nebraska defeats Pittsburgh 9-7.
1946 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 33-0.
1957 - Colorado defeats Nebraska 27-0.
1957 - Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns set an NFL single-season rushing record of 1,163 yards after only eight games.
1957 - Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics sets an NBA record with 49 rebounds in a 111-89 win over Philadelphia.
1957 - Oklahoma's NCAA-record 47-game win streak ends after a 7-0 loss to Notre Dame.
1958 - Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics set a new NBA record with 32 rebounds in the first half of a game.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the San Francisco Warriors scores 73 points against the New York Knicks.
1963 - #10 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 20-16.
1968 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 22-6.
1974 - #6 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 35-7.
1982 - An agreement was announced in the 57th day of a strike by NFL players.
1985 - #2 Nebraska defeats Kansas 56-6.
1991 - #11 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 38-13.
1994 - Major League Soccer announced it would start its inaugural season in 1996.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 49-14.
1997 - Morton Anderson of the New Orleans Saints became only the fifth player in NFL history to reach 1,600 career points scored.
1998 - Roger Clemens of the Toronto Blue Jays became the first pitcher to win five Cy Young Awards.
2002 - #11 Kansas State defeats Nebraska 49-13.
2003 - The Edmonton Eskimos defeat the Montreal Alouettes 34-22 to win their 12th Grey Cup.
2013 - #14 Michigan State defeats Nebraska 41-28.
2019 - #15 Wisconsin defeats Nebraska 37-21.
2019 - At the last minute, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick skipped a workout arranged by the NFL at the Atlanta Falcons’ training complex to which all 32 teams had been invited, and instead held a workout on a high school field 60 miles away, open to the media. (The NFL had scheduled its workout after Kaepernick claimed that the league had blackballed him for kneeling in protest during the national anthem.)
1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington in New York during the American Revolution.
1864 - During the Civil War, Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea".
1907 - Oklahoma became the 46th state.
1914 - The newly-created Federal Reserve Banks opened in 12 cities.
1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.
1960 - Academy Award-winning actor Clark Gable died in Los Angeles at age 59.
1961 - House Speaker Sam Rayburn (D-Texas) died at age 79.
1966 - Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial on charges of murdering his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.
1973 - Skylab 4, with three astronauts on board, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on an 84-day mission.
1973 - President Richard Nixon signed the bill authorizing the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
1988 - Estonia's parliament declared the Baltic republic sovereign.
1991 - Former Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards won a landslide victory in his bid to return to office, defeating State Rep. David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan leader.
1995 - Attorney General Janet Reno disclosed that she had Parkinson's disease.
2001 - Investigators found a letter addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) containing anthrax; it was the second letter bearing the deadly germ known to have been sent to Capitol Hill.
2001 - Congress passed a law mandating that airport screeners be federal employees.
2004 - President George W. Bush nominated Condoleezza Rice to succeed Colin Powell as secretary of state.
2006 - Democrats embraced Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in House history, but then selected Steny Hoyer as majority leader against her wishes.
2010 - U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel was convicted on 11 of 13 charges stemming from financial misconduct, prompting fellow lawmakers to censure the 80-year-old New York Democrat.
2010 - The engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton was announced in London.
2010 - President Barack Obama awarded the Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, the first living service member from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars to receive the nation's top military award.
2015 - President Barack Obama, in Turkey for a meeting of world leaders, conceded that the Paris terror attacks were a “terrible and sickening setback” in the fight against the Islamic State, but forcefully dismissed critics who had called for the U.S. to change or expand its military campaign against the extremists.
2017 - Minnesota Democratic Sen. Al Franken became the first member of Congress to be caught up in a wave of allegations of sexual abuse and inappropriate behavior, after a Los Angeles radio anchor accused him of forcibly kissing her and groping her during a 2006 USO tour. (Franken eventually resigned from the Senate.)
2018 - A U.S. official said intelligence officials had concluded that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi,
2018 - A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to immediately return the White House press credentials of CNN reporter Jim Acosta.
2019 - Transcripts released in the impeachment inquiry showed Ambassador Gordon Sondland playing a central role in President Donald Trump’s effort to push Ukraine to conduct political investigations as a condition for receiving needed military aid.
2019 - President Donald Trump went to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for what he later described as a “very routine physical”; it had not been on Trump’s public schedule, raising suspicions about the president’s health.
Birthdays
22 - Daisey O'Donnell (singer)
24 - Samira Mighty (reality star)
25 - Noah Gray-Cabey (actor)
27 - Casey Moss (actor)
27 - Pete Davidson (actor/comedian)
30 - Amanda Clapham (actress)
33 - Vicky Pattison (reality star)
36 - Kimberly J. Brown (actress)
36 - Gemma Atkinson (model)
38 - Amare Stoudemire (basketball player)
41 - Trevor Penick (singer)
43 - Maggie Gyllenhaal (actress)
43 - Oksana Baiul (figure skater)
46 - Brooke Elliott (actress)
48 - Missi Pyle (actress)
48 - Michael Irby (actor)
48 - Brandi Glanville (reality star)
50 - Martha Plimpton (actress)
52 - Tammy Lauren (actress)
53 - Lisa Bonet (actress)
56 - Harry Lennix (actor)
56 - Dwight Gooden (baseball player)
61 - Helen Pearson (actress)
62 - Marg Helgenberger (actress)
69 - Miguel Sandoval (actor)
70 - David Leisure (actor)
75 - Steve Railsback (actor)
78 - Joanna Pettet (actress)
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Today in Sports History - November 16
1895 - Kansas defeats Nebraska 8-4.
1901 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 29-5.
1907 - Nebraska defeats Denver 63-0.
1912 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 14-3.
1918 - Nebraska defeats Kansas 20-0.
1926 - The New York Rangers made their NHL debut with a 1-0 win over the Montreal Maroons.
1929 - Nebraska and Oklahoma play to a 13-13 tie.
1935 - Pittsburgh defeats Nebraska 6-0.
1940 - #11 Nebraska defeats Pittsburgh 9-7.
1946 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 33-0.
1957 - Colorado defeats Nebraska 27-0.
1957 - Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns set an NFL single-season rushing record of 1,163 yards after only eight games.
1957 - Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics sets an NBA record with 49 rebounds in a 111-89 win over Philadelphia.
1957 - Oklahoma's NCAA-record 47-game win streak ends after a 7-0 loss to Notre Dame.
1958 - Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics set a new NBA record with 32 rebounds in the first half of a game.
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of the San Francisco Warriors scores 73 points against the New York Knicks.
1963 - #10 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 20-16.
1968 - Nebraska defeats Colorado 22-6.
1974 - #6 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 35-7.
1982 - An agreement was announced in the 57th day of a strike by NFL players.
1985 - #2 Nebraska defeats Kansas 56-6.
1991 - #11 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 38-13.
1994 - Major League Soccer announced it would start its inaugural season in 1996.
1996 - #5 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 49-14.
1997 - Morton Anderson of the New Orleans Saints became only the fifth player in NFL history to reach 1,600 career points scored.
1998 - Roger Clemens of the Toronto Blue Jays became the first pitcher to win five Cy Young Awards.
2002 - #11 Kansas State defeats Nebraska 49-13.
2003 - The Edmonton Eskimos defeat the Montreal Alouettes 34-22 to win their 12th Grey Cup.
2013 - #14 Michigan State defeats Nebraska 41-28.
2019 - #15 Wisconsin defeats Nebraska 37-21.
2019 - At the last minute, former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick skipped a workout arranged by the NFL at the Atlanta Falcons’ training complex to which all 32 teams had been invited, and instead held a workout on a high school field 60 miles away, open to the media. (The NFL had scheduled its workout after Kaepernick claimed that the league had blackballed him for kneeling in protest during the national anthem.)