How Many Days Until November 16?

This day in history: November 16

1. 1967

   Aeroflot Flight 2230 crashed after takeoff from Koltsovo Airport, Russia, killing all 107 people aboard.

2. 1973

   U.S. president Richard Nixon signed an act authorizing the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to transport oil from the Beaufort Sea to the Gulf of Alaska.

3. 1981

   About 30 million people watched the fictional couple Luke Spencer and Laura Webber wed on the television show General Hospital in the highest-rated hour in American soap opera history.

4. 1992

   In Suffolk, England, a local man found the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold in Britain, including the largest collection of 4th- and 5th-century gold and silver coins ever discovered within the former Roman Empire.

5. 1997

   Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, released on ostensibly medical grounds after spending eighteen years in prison, was deported to the United States.

6. 2002

   The first case of SARS, a zoonotic respiratory coronavirus disease, was recorded in Guangdong, China.

7. 2020

   The El Dorado Fire in California, United States, was extinguished after 71 days, having destroyed 20 structures and killed one firefighter.

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