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November 16th, 2000	Event	Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
November 16th, 1997	Event	After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People s Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
November 16th, 1989	Event	A death squad composed of El Salvadoran army troops kills six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.
November 16th, 1989	Event	UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference.
November 16th, 1988	Event	The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR declares that Estonia was "sovereign" but stopped short of declaring independence.
November 16th, 1988	Event	In the first open election in more than a decade, voters in Pakistan elect populist candidate Benazir Bhutto to be Prime Minister of Pakistan.
November 16th, 1979	Event	The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semanatoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
November 16th, 1973	Event	Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
November 16th, 1973	Event	U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
November 16th, 1965	Event	Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.

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