^B{^#!16!6 November^N! Feast day of St Demetrian of Khytri, St Melaine, St Barlaam of Khutyn, St Leonard of Noblac, St Winnoc, and St Illtud.
^B{1429^B} Henry VI was crowned King of England. ^B{1860^B} Abraham Lincoln was elected 16th US president. ^B{1869^B} Diamonds were discovered at Kimberley, in Cape Province, South Africa. ^B{1924^B} British Tory leader Stanley Baldwin was elected prime minister. ^B{1932^B} In general elections held in Germany, the Nazis emerged as the largest party. ^B{1956^B} Construction of the Kariba High Dam, on the Zambezi River between Zambia and Zimbabwe, began. ^B{1975^B} UK punk rock group, the Sex Pistols, gave their first public performance at London's St Martin's College of Art; college authorities cut the concert short - after 10 minutes. ^B{1988^B} Six thousand US Defense Department computers were crippled by a virus; the culprit was the 23-year-old son of the head of the country's computer security agency.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Alois Senefelder, Austrian inventor of lithography, ^B{1771^B}; Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor of the saxophone, ^B{1814^B}; John Philip Sousa, US bandmaster and composer, ^B{1854^B}; John Alcock, British pioneer aviator, ^B{1892^B}; Mike Nichols, US director, ^B{1931^B}; Sally Field, US actress, ^B{1946^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Gustavus II, King of Sweden, ^B{1632^B}; Heinrich Schⁿtz, German composer, ^B{1672^B}; William Hone, British satirist and editor, ^B{1842^B}; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, ^B{1893^B}; Kate Greenaway, British illustrator, ^B{1901^B}; Gene Eliza Tierney, US film actress, ^B{1991^B}.
