On This Day for November 16 - Election of Bhutto as Pakistan's prime minister, W.C. Handy is featured, and more

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view. November 16 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY W.C. Handy READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1988 Election of Bhutto as Pakistan's prime minister READ MORE   Advertisement Advertisement   MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY 2006: American economist Milton Friedman , who was a leading proponent of monetarism and won the 1976 Nobel Prize for Economics, died at age 94. [Test your knowledge of macroeconomics.] 1973: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act was signed by U.S. President Richard Nixon; the pipeline—which connects the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska with the harbour at Valdez—became operational four years later. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about oil and natural gas.] 1960: Actor Clark Gable , who epitomized the American ideal of masculinity for three decades and was known as the "King of Hollywood," died of a heart attack, days after finishing work on The Misfits (1961). [Take our quiz about movie stars.] 1922: Portuguese novelist José Saramago, who won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born. [ How much do you know about Nobel laureates in literature?] 1855: British explorer David Livingstone was the first European to see Victoria Falls (Mosi-oa-Tunya). [Take our quiz about world explorers.] 1836: Kalakaua, the last king and second-to-last monarch of Hawaii (1874–91), was born. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Hawaii.] SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY 1907 Burgess Meredith American actor and director -42 Tiberius Roman emperor 1964 Diana Krall Canadian musician and singer 1896 Oswald Mosley English politician 1930 Chinua Achebe Nigerian author 1938 Robert Nozick American philosopher SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY   Advertisement   FOLLOW: To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, click here. Encyclopædia Britannica 325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States © 2020 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Privacy Policy • Help