November 16: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

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1. 1852 - The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.
2. 1904 - English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for thethermionic valve (vacuum tube).
3. 1907 - Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, that is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
4. 1914 - The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
5. 1920 - Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
6. 1940 - Holocaust: in occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
7. 1965 - Venera program: the Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, that will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
8. 1973 - Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
9. 1973 - U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
10. 1992 - The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
11. Famous Birthdays: Tiberius (Roman emperor), George S. Kaufman (American playwright), Jean le Rond d'Alembert (French mathematician), Jules Violle (French physicist), Jean Chardin (French explorer)

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