11-16-2006, 03:34 AM
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November 16th
1849 ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky sentenced to death; his execution was canceled at the last minute.
1885 ~ Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader and "Father of Manitoba", executed for high treason.
1895 ~ Birthday of Paul Hindemith, Composer.
1922 ~ Birthday of Gene Amdahl, computer scientist.
1933 ~ The U.S. and the USSR established diplomatic relations.
1959 ~ The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''The Sound of Music'' opened on Broadway.
1960 ~ Death of Clark Gable, Actor.
1965 ~ The Soviet Union launched the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
1979 ~ Sir Anthony Blunt, a former security service officer, identified as the "fourth man" in the Philby affair.
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