Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 16

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 * 534 – The second edition of the Code of Justinian, a codification of Roman law by Byzantine emperor Justinian I, was published.
 * 1476 – With the help of Stephen III and Stephen Báthory, Vlad the Impaler ousted Basarab the Old and became the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
 * 1532 – Spanish conquest of Peru: Conquistador Francisco Pizarro orchestrated a surprise attack (depiction shown) in Cajamarca, capturing the Inca emperor, Atahualpa.
 * 1632 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed at the Battle of Lützen during the Thirty Years' War.
 * 1776 – American Revolutionary War: Fort Washington on Manhattan was captured from the Patriots by British and Hessian units.
 * 1885 – After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion, the Canadian Métis leader and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel was hanged for high treason.
 * 1944 – World War II: Operation Queen commenced with one of the heaviest Allied tactical bombings of the war, attacking German targets in the Rur valley.
 * 1967 – Aeroflot Flight 2230 crashed after takeoff from Koltsovo Airport, Russia, killing all 107 people aboard.
 * 1981 – About 30 million people watched the fictional couple Luke Spencer and Laura Webber wed on the television show General Hospital in the highest-rated hour in American soap-opera history.
 * 1992 – In Suffolk, England, a local man found the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold in Britain (sample pictured), including the largest collection of 4th- and 5th-century gold and silver coins ever discovered within the former Roman Empire.


 * Born/died this day: | Ælfric of Abingdon |d|1005| Nasr of Granada |d|1322| Sofonisba Anguissola |d|1625| Charles-Antoine Campion |b|1720|Eleanor Coade |d|1821| Kalākaua |b|1836|  Caroline Birley |b|1851| Chinua Achebe |b|1930|  Clark Gable |d|1960 |Omayra Sánchez |d|1985 | Panditrao Agashe |d|1986|