Today in History.....November 16

On this day in …

* 1776, British troops captured Fort Washington during the American Revolution

* 1798, Kentucky becomes first state to nullify an act of Congress

* 1864, Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the Civil War

* 1933, the United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations

* 1945, Yeshiva College (University), chartered in New York, becomes first Jewish college on American shores

* 1963, the touch-tone telephone is introduced

* 1973, President Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law

* 1995, Democrats savaged House Speaker Newt Gingrich for claiming Clinton had snubbed him recently aboard Air Force One