What happend on 16th November

15.11
17.11
1940

New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.

1940

Holocaust: In Poland, Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.

1940

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

1933

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

1914

The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens for business.

1907

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

1906

Opera star Enrico Caruso is charged with an indecent act after allegedly pinching a woman's bottom in the monkey house of New York's Central Park Zoo.

1904

John Ambrose Fleming invents the vacuum tube.

1896

First transmission of electrical power between two cities was sent from Niagara Falls to industries in Buffalo, New York. (See War of Currents.)

1893

Athletic Club Královské Vinohrady is founded. Later the team was renamed to Sparta Prague.