On This Day: November 16th

Artemis Program: NASA launches Artemis 1 on the first flight of the Space Launch System, the start of the program's future missions to the moon.

Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on mission STS-129 to the International Space Station.

Following a 31-year wait, Australia defeats Uruguay in a penalty shootout to qualify for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Half-Life 2 is released, a game winning 39 Game of the Year awards and being cited as one of the best games ever made.

The first cases of the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak are traced to Foshan, Guangdong Province, China.

After nearly 18 years of incarceration, China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.

The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.

Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

El Salvadoran army troops kill six Jesuit priests and two others at Jose Simeon Canas University.

The Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic declares that Estonia is "sovereign" but stops short of declaring independence.