Today is Wednesday, November 16, the 320th day of 2011. There are 45 days left in the year.
1532 ― Pizarro seizes Incan emperor Atahualpa after victory at Cajamarca
1894 ― 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
1908 ― Arturo Toscanini begins conducting N.Y. Metropolitan Opera
1914 ― Federal Reserve System formally opens
1918 ― Hungarian People's Republic declared
1933 ― Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR
1959 ― ``Sound of Music" opens on Broadway
1962 ― Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 73 points vs. N.Y.
1982 ― Agreement reached ending 57-day football strike
1988 ― Benazir Bhutto wins first free Pakistani elections in 11 years