November 16, 1918
Iasi, Romania: Anti-Bolshevik Political leaders gather for the Jassy Conference.
The Hungarian Democratic Republic declared, marking Hungary's independence from Austria.
The Estonian 1st Division is established to defend that country against the Red Army.
The Lithuanian Postal service Lietuvos Paštas is established.
American socialist leader Louis C. Fraina begins publishing the radical newspaper The Revolutionary Age in Boston.
Born Today:
Nicholas Moore, English poet, member of the New Apocalyptics group in London, in Cambridge (d. 1986).
Carter Manny, American architect, designer of the O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, the J. Edgar Hoover Building for the FBI on Washington D.C., and the First Chicago Bank building, in Michigan City, Indiana (d. 2017)
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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