Today is Wednesday, November 16, the 321st day of 2016. There are 45 days left in the year.
1532 — Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca
1676 — First colonial prison organized, Nantucket, Massachusetts
1776 — Hessians capture Fort Washington, Manhattan
1798 — Kentucky becomes first state to nullify an act of Congress
1841 — N.E. Guerin of New York patents cork-filled life preserver
1864 — Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to the sea during Civil War
1894 — 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
1907 — Oklahoma becomes 46th state
1908 — Arturo Tuscanini begins conducting the Metropolitan Opera