FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Today is Friday, November 16, the 321

st

day of 2012. There are 45 days left in the year.

1532 ― Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca

1908 ― Arturo Toscanini begins conducting N.Y.'s Metropolitan Opera

1914 ― Federal Reserve System formally opens

1918 ― Hungarian People's Republic declared

1925 ― American Association for the Advancement of Atheism formed in N.Y.

1933 ― Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR

1959 ― "Sound of Music" opens on Broadway

1965 ― First public announcement about Walt Disney World

1965 ― Venera 3 launched, first to land on another planet (crashes into Venus)

1973 ― John Lennon releases "Mind Games" album