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