November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years). 45 days remain until the end of the year.
“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things,"
Margaret Mead
Born today
Margaret Mead, 1901, American cultural anthropologist
Observances
Day of Declaration of Sovereignty (Estonia)
Earliest day on which Day of Repentance and Prayer can fall, while November 22 is the latest; celebrated 11 days before Advent Sunday (Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist) and United Protestant churches, Saxony, Bavaria), and its related observance:
Volkstrauertag (Germany)
Icelandic Language Day or Dagur íslenskrar tungu (Iceland)
International Day for Tolerance (United Nations)
Statia Day in Sint Eustatius (Caribbean Netherlands)
Intergenerational Fairness Day (International day of action for rights of younger and future generations)
