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November 16

SARS Virus

1914 – World War I: Austro-Hungarian forces launched an assault against Serbian defensive positions at the Kolubara river, beginning the Battle of Kolubara.
1973 – U.S. president Richard Nixon signed an act authorizing the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline to transport oil from the Beaufort Sea to the Gulf of Alaska.
1997 – Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng, released on ostensibly medical grounds after spending eighteen years in prison, was deported to the United States.
2002 – The first case of SARS (pictured), a zoonotic respiratory coronavirus disease, was recorded in Guangdong, China.
2020 – The El Dorado Fire in California, United States, was extinguished after 71 days, having destroyed 20 structures and killed one firefighter.

Turibius of Mogrovejo (b. 1538)
Augustus Jones (d. 1836)
Shigeru Miyamoto (b. 1952)
A. S. Byatt (d. 2023)

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