Today in History in 1973 NASA launches Skylab 4 with three astronauts on board for an 84-day mission, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The On This Day In History archives at “Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” contains over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 45 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

1272 - Edward I of England becomes King while fighting in the Ninth Crusade.

1532 – Inca ruler Atahualpa is captured by Spanish Conquistadors.

1632 – Thirty Years' War: Swedish troops defeat an imperial army under Albrecht von Wallenstein, but lose their king, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.

1776 - American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units take Fort Washington from the patriots.

1776 - The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize US independence.

1793 - Reign of Terror: 90 anti-republican Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning in Nantes, France.

1797 - Frederick William III of Prussia becomes King.

1849 – A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his execution is canceled at the last minute.

1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to reach Victoria Falls.

1857 - 24 Victoria Crosses are given in one day, a record that still stands.

1863 - American Civil War: The Battle of Campbell's Station is fought near Knoxville, Tennessee.

1869 - The Suez Canal is opened to shipping.

1885 - Canadian rebel leader Louis Riel is executed for treason.

1896 – First transmission of electrical power between two cities was sent from Niagara Falls to industries in Buffalo, New York.

1904 – John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube.

1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory become Oklahoma and are admitted as the 46th U.S. state.

1907 - RMS Mauretania is launched by the Cunard Line. The ship sets sail on its first voyage from Liverpool to New York City.

1914 – The Federal Reserve System in the United States officially starts business.

1915 - The characterised Coca-Cola bottle is patented in the United States.

1920 - Australian airline Qantas is founded as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.

1933 – The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations.

1933 - American Jimmie Angel re-discovers Angel Falls in Venezuela.

1940 – World War II: In response to Germany leveling Coventry two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.

1944 - World War II: The German city of Düren is destroyed by Allied bombing.

1945 – UNESCO is founded.

1957 – Serial killer Ed Gein murders his last victim, Bernice Worden.

1959 - The Sound of Music opens on Broadway, New York.

1965 – The Soviet Venera 3 probe is launched to the planet Venus.

1970 – Hafez al-Assad comes to power in Syria.

1973 - NASA launches Skylab 4 with three astronauts on board for an 84-day mission, from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

1973 - US President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, allowing for building work to begin on the Trans-Alaska oil Pipeline.

1979 - The first line of the Bucharest Metro is opened.

1980 - An explosion at a military base in Bangkok, Thailand kills 38 people.

1988 – The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that the Estonia was "sovereign" but stopped short of declaring independence.

1988 – In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan choose Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister.

1993 – Guyana joins the UN.

1994 - Emomalii Rahmon becomes President of Tajikistan.

1996 – Mother Teresa receives honorary US citizenship.

1997 - After 18 years of imprisonment, the People's Republic of China releases activist Wei Jingsheng for medical reasons.

2000 – Bill Clinton becomes the first current US President to visit Vietnam.

2006 – Rioting occurs in Nuku'alofa, Tonga.

2013 - Sachin Tendulkar, one of most famous cricketers in the world, retires from playing cricket after his last test match (India v. West Indies).

2017 - Cambodia's highest court declares the main opposition party illegal.

2018 - After several resignations in the British cabinet over Brexit, Stephen Barclay is appointed Brexit Secretary and former Home Secretary Amber Rudd becomes Work and Pensions Secretary.

2019 - Gotabaya Rajapaksa is elected President of Sri Lanka.

2022 - NASA launches Artemis 1.