Historical Events on November 16(Part-II)

• 1798 Kentucky becomes first state to nullify an act of Congress
• 1801 First edition of New York Evening Post
• 1805 Battle at Schongrabern: Russian army stop French
• 1824 New York City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
• 1840 New Zealand officially becomes a British colony
• 1841 Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
• 1849 Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor
• 1856 Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens
• 1859 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza" premieres in Moscow
• 1863 Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities
• 1864 Confederate retreat at Lovejoy, Georgia
• 1870 Spanish Cortes selects King Amadeus I
• 1871 National Rifle Association is first chartered in the State of New York
• 1875 Battle of Gundet: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
• 1875 William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities
• 1882 British gunboat HMS Flirt fires at & destroys Abari village in Niger
• 1894 6,000 Armenians massacred by Turks in Kurdistan
• 1894 French captain Henri Decoeurs troops reach Nikki, West Africa
• 1901 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier 
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