^B{^#!16!16 November^N! Feast day of St Margaret of Scotland, St Agnes of Assisi, St Gertrude of Helfta, St Afan, St Edmund of Abingdon, St Mechtildis of Helfta, St Nikon 'Metanoeite', and St Eucherius of Lyons.
^B{1824^B} Australian explorer Hamilton Hume discovered the Murray River, the longest river in Australia. ^B{1869^B} The Suez Canal, which had taken ten years to build, was formally opened. ^B{1913^B} The first volume of ^I{Remembrance of Things Past^I}, the classic autobiographical novel by Marcel Proust, was published in Paris. ^B{1918^B} Hungary achieved independence from the Austro-Hungarian empire and was proclaimed a republic. ^B{1928^B} In London, UK, obscenity charges were brought against Radclyffe Hall's crusading lesbian novel ^I{The Well of Loneliness^I}. ^B{1965^B} The USSR launched ^I{Venus III^I}, an uncrewed spacecraft that successfully landed on Venus. ^B{1993^B} Amid the tears of its employees and sympathisers, Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum was closed by the Russian authorities; it was the first site in Moscow linked to Lenin to be shut down.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Tiberius, Roman emperor, ^B{42 BC^B}; John Bright, British political reformer, ^B{1811^B}; William Frend de Morgan, English artist and novelist, ^B{1839^B}; George S Kaufman, US dramatist, ^B{1889^B}; Willie Carson, English jockey, ^B{1942^B}; Frank Bruno, British boxer, ^B{1961^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}King Henry III, ^B{1272^B}; Jack Sheppard, English highwayman, ^B{1724^B}; Louis Riel, Canadian leader of the MΘtis rebellion, ^B{1885^B}; Clark Gable, US fim actor, ^B{1960^B}; William Holden, US film actor, ^B{1981^B}; Arthur Askey, English comedian, ^B{1983^B}.
