This day in History - November 16

354 Historic Events for November 16
1822 Birth Charles Smith Hamilton, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1891
1824 Event NY City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
1827 Birth James Southerton, cricketer (Test debut in the 1st ever Test at 49)
1829 Birth Anton G Rubinstein, Russian pianist/conductor/composer [OS]
1831 Death Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist (Campaign 1813), dies at 51
1835 Event Charles Darwins voyage published in Cambridge Philosophical Society
1835 Birth Elliott Warren Rice, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1887
1835 Death Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48
1840 Birth Frederick Scotson Clark, composer
1841 Event Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
1841 Event N E Guerin of NY patents cork-filled life preserver
1854 Birth Jules van de Heuvel, Belgian lawyer/politician
1856 Event Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens
1857 Birth Henry Potoniā€š, German paleo-botanist/geologist (sapropelium)
1859 Event Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Groza," premieres in Moscow
1860 Birth Edmund Schuecker, composer
1861 Birth Vaclav Suk, composer
1862 Birth Charles Thomas Biass Turner, cricketer (the "Terror")
1863 Event Battle of Campbell's Station TN, 492 casualities
1864 Event Confederate retreat at Lovejoy, Georgia
1864 Event Union Gen William T Sherman begins march to sea during Civil War
1870 Event Spanish Cortes selects King Amadeus I
1870 Birth Alfred Hill, composer
1873 Birth W[illiam] C[hristopher] Handy, Alabama, jazz star (St Louis Blues)
1874 Birth Johanna HC Albregt, Dutch actress (Dumb August)/wife of Henri Dons