History for November 16 - On-This-Day.com
Burgess Meredith 1908, Daws Butler 1916, Elizabeth Drew 1935 - Journalist
Marg Helgenberger 1958 - Actress ("C.S.I."), Oksana Baiul 1977, Maggie Gyllenhaal 1977 - Actress
1915 - Coca-Cola had its prototype for a countoured bottle patented. The bottle made its commercial debut the next year.
1952 - In the Peanuts comic strip, Lucy first held a football for Charlie Brown.
1957 - Jim Brown (Cleveland Browns) set an NFL season rushing record of 1163 yards after only eight games.
1973 - U.S. President Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law.
1981 - A vaccine for hepatitis B was approved. The vaccine had been developed at Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research.
1998 - In Burlington, WIsconsin, five high school students, aged 15 to 16, were arrested in an alleged plot to kill a carefully selected group of teachers and students.
1998 - It was announced that Monica Lewinsky had signed a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with U.S. President Clinton.
2004 - A NASA unmanned "scramjet" (X-43A) reached a speed of nearly 10 times the speed of sound above the Pacific Ocean.
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