Historical Events for 16th November 2022

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1908 - Arturo Toscanini begins conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera
1935 - Cole Porter's musical "Anything Goes" closes at 46th Street Theatre, NYC, after 420 performances
1945 - Two new elements discovered by Glenn Seaborg, James, Morgan and Albert Ghiorso were are announced: americium (atomic number 95) and curium (atomic number 96)
1962 - Kuwait adopts constitution (1st, Islamitic)
1966 - "Greatest Hits" album by The Temptations is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1967)
1972 - Elektra Records releases "No Secrets', the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Carly Simon; her commercial breakthrough spends 5 weeks at top of US charts and contains the hit singles "You're So Vain" and "The Right Thing to Do"
1982 - Tom Stoppard's play "The Real Thing" premieres in London starring Felicity Kendal and Roger Rees
2003 - Roger Federer of Switzerland wins his first of 6 season-ending Tennis Masters Cup titles with a 6–3, 6–0, 6–4 victory over American Andre Agassi in the final in Houston, Texas
2019 - 500th anniversary of the founding of Havana, Cuba
2020 - Hurricane Iota makes landfall in Nicaragua as a category four storm, just 15 km south of Hurricane Eta 13 days ago

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On this date in1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of . Music opened on Broadway