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Hidden : 11/16/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
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Not in the cemetery. A preform.

This continues the “This Day in History” calendar series. Without the help of the local cachers, this would not be possible! Thank you!

November 16th:

According to Wikipedia and other sources, on November 16th

1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.

1849 – A 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.

1852 – The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope.

1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, and is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.

1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.

1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.

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