**Today is Sunday, Nov. 16, 2025**
It is the 320th day of the year, with 45 days remaining.
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### Today in History
– **1907:** Oklahoma became the 46th state of the Union.
– **1914:** The newly created Federal Reserve Banks opened in 12 cities across the United States.
– **1973:** President Richard Nixon signed the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of an 800-mile (1,290-kilometer) oil pipeline from Alaska’s North Slope to the port city of Valdez.
– **1982:** An agreement was announced on the 57th day of a strike by National Football League players.
– **1988:** Benazir Bhutto was voted prime minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman elected to lead a Muslim-majority country.
– **1989:** Six Jesuit priests, a housekeeper, and her daughter were killed by Salvadoran army troops at the University of Central America José Simeón Cañas in San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador.
– **2001:** Investigators found a letter addressed to Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont containing anthrax. It was the second such letter bearing the deadly germ known to have been sent to Capitol Hill.
– **2001:** The first film in the Harry Potter series, *Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone* (U.S. title: *Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone*), debuted in theaters worldwide.
– **2006:** Following midterm elections that saw Democrats take control of the U.S. House of Representatives, Representative Nancy Pelosi of California was nominated by the Democratic caucus to become House Speaker. Pelosi would officially become the first woman to serve as Speaker with the House vote the following January.
– **2018:** A U.S. official stated that intelligence agencies concluded Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the October killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
– **2022:** NASA resumed lunar exploration, 50 years after the end of the Apollo program, by launching the uncrewed Orion space capsule from Kennedy Space Center on a 25-day mission to orbit the moon.
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### Today’s Birthdays
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