16 November in Hindu history
16 November 1860
The Truro reaches Natal
The Truro landed the first indentured Indians at Port Natal, now Durban, to work the sugar estates. Durban became the largest Indian city outside Asia.
16 November 1915
Kartar Singh Sarabha hanged at Lahore
After the Ghadar Party’s planned rising of February 1915 is betrayed, nineteen-year-old Kartar Singh Sarabha is hanged with six comrades. Bhagat Singh carried his photograph.