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HomePage 7: Historical Events In November - 09
Monday, 16 March 2026
1993 Gerald Thomas, director (Carry on), dies at 72. 
1994 Milton M Shorty Rajonsky Rogers, trumpeter, dies at 70.
1995 Derick Frederick George Emmison, archivist/historian, dies at 88.
1996 Fred Lipmann, watchmaker, dies at 91.
1998 St. Thomas and Eastern Railway, a division of Trillium Rail, commences operation over the fomer CN Cayuga Spur between St. Thomas and Delhi, ON.
2005 At least fifty people are killed and more than 120 are injured in a series of coordinated suicide bombings in Amman, Jordan. See 205 Amman bombings.
2012 2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air space.
2013 8 people are killed by a gunman in Cali, Columbia
2014 United States lead air strikes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul against Islamic State (IS).
2017 Saudi Arabia's attorney general Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb says 201 more people have been held for questioning in anti-corruption drive.
2017 Five women detail sexual misconduct by comedian Louis C.K. in "New York Times" report.
2017 Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore accused of sexual misconduct with teenage girls in "Washington Post" report
2018 Amid Californian forest fires US President Trump accuses state forest management of "gross mismanagement", threatens to withhold funding
2018 Mudslide after heavy rain in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil results in the deaths of 10
2018 Korean pop band BTS appearance on Japanese TV show cancelled after member Jimin wore shirt with atomic bomb image.
2018 Attacker stabs three, killing one in Melbourne, Australia, with homeless man hailed as hero for using shopping trolley to stop him
2018 Three car bombs explode in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 52 people and injuring 100
2019 The Supreme Court of India awards a holy site in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh to Hindus, rejecting a Muslim claim. The move is likely to spur sectarian disputes.
2019 Cyclone Bulbul results in the deaths of seven in West Bengal, India and seven in Bangladesh. 2000000 people are evacuated
2020 [COVID-19 pandemic] The inaugural successful phase III trial of a COVID-19 vaccine is announced by drug companies Pfizer and BioNTech, which is 90% effective according to interim results
2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War: Armenia and Azerbaijan sign a Russia-brokered ceasefire agreement
2021 EU accuses Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko of "inhuman, gangster-style approach" to thousands of migrants massing on their border with Poland in freezing conditions
2021 Actor Paul Rudd is named People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive
2023 U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announce the world's inaugural whole eye transplant
2024 A suicide bombing at the Quetta railway station in Balochistan, Pakistan results in the deaths of at least 26 people. The bombing was orchestrated by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), and is the inaugural time that the organization had attacked the center of Quetta
