On this day in history (November 16, 2014) 42 BCE Tiberius, the second Roman emperor and the adopted son of Augustus, was born. 1272 British monarch Henry III died at age 65. 1632 Swedish King Gustav II Adolf died during the Battle of Lutzen, though his forces were victorious, and his cause was skillfully directed b his chief adviser, Axel Oxenstierna. 1776 Sint Eustatius became the first foreign government to recognize the fledgling United States. 1836 Kalakaua, the last king and second-to-last monarch of Hawaii (1874-91), was born. 1855 British explorer David Livingstone was the first European to see Victoria Falls. 1922 Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago, who won the 1998 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born. 1960 Actor Clark Gable, who epitomized the American ideal of masculinity for three decades and was known as the King of Hollywood, died of a heart attack, days after finishing work on The Misfits (1961) 1973 The Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act was signed by U.S, President Richard Nixon; the pipeline - which connects the oil fields of Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska with the harbor of Valdez - became operational four years later. 1988 Benazir Bhutto, elected prime minister of Pakistan became the first woman in modern history to lead a Muslim country serving as prime minister from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 1996.
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