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On this Day in History 16th November.

534 Final revision of the Justinian Code.
1272 Prince Edward on 9th Crusade becomes King of England on the death of Henry III.
1532 Francisco Pizarro, Spanish Conquistador captures Inca Emperor Athalulpa at Cajamarca, Andes, Peru.
1857 24 Victoria Crosses awarded in the Second Relief of Lucknow, British India, the most in a single day.
1904 John Ambrose Fleming patents the thermionic value, or vacuum tube.
1928 Radclyffe Hall is charged with obscenity for her book The Well of Loneliness.
1934 Alice Hargreaves's (nee Liddle) dies, the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
1940 Two days after the bombing of Coventry, the RAF bomb Hamburg.
1945 UNESCO formed.